Description
| Salary £53,887-£58,282 Per annum | Fixed Term til 31st March 2026, Full Time, 37 hours per week | County Hall, Preston |
International Sponsorship
– this role is
not
open to international sponsorship
Fixed term Grade 12
Hybrid working, with 2 days based in Preston.
Are you a change professional who really understand the people and psychological side of change?
Do you believe that ‘change done well’ is the only way to do things?
Join us at Lancashire County Council as a People Change Partner to help us to deliver significant change and transformation across our workforce of 13,500. As one of our People Change Partners you will have a crucial role in people centric change management across the organisation, partnering a directorate client group.
You'll be an experienced professional who has the expertise to help us navigate change in a way that drives engagement and trust from our workforce. We’d love it you already had the APMG Change Practitioner certification, but don't worry if you don’t as approach and style is crucial for this role – for the right person, we can help you to achieve the certification.
Key Responsibilities
Partnering with an Executive Director and their Leadership teams, diagnose and design the right approach to change for the client group – if you only have one way of doing things – then this role isn't for you. Deliver comprehensive people centric change approaches that address people aspects of organisational change, with a focus on the psychological side of change that will drive engagement and adoption. Identify, plan for and mitigate risks within change programmes promoting a culture of continuous improvement and engagement with organisational change. Agility and adaptability will be key – we are a large organisation with a lot of dependencies and your approach to shifting priorities will be very much needed.
What We Are Looking For
Big Picture Thinking
You will be a strategic thinker with experience of leading and delivering people centric change management within a complex organisation, keeping a clear view on where we are trying to get to, without being wedded to one way of doing it.
Service Excellence
You will be able to evidence delivering people centric change activities that fosters a high performance and continuous improvement whilst driving up engagement – we want our people to see, feel and hear about change done well.
Engagement
You will have the expertise to influence leaders by delivering a consistent approach to managing people-centric change across a complex organisation, evidencing outcomes, and showcasing what good looks like when it comes to leadership, communications, engagement and delivery.
We would love to hear your story, please include a personal statement showcasing two different change initiatives that you have been a fundamental part of – one that went well and one that was challenging – we are keen to hear how you navigated both and the lessons learnt and how you’d bring that to Lancashire.
If you would like to contact us for an informal and confidential chat, please get in touch with Samantha Mason at Samantha.Mason@lancashire.gov.uk, who would be happy to arrange this.
Why join us?
In return for your passion and expertise, we also offer a generous benefits package which includes:
A competitive salary and Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions. A great holiday entitlement of 26 days annual leave which rises with length of service. You will also be entitled to 8 Bank Holidays, 2 additional statutory Bank Holidays, and have the option to buy additional leave each year. Our staff discount scheme in partnership with Vivup, allowing you to access discounts with a range of UK retailers, saving on everything from weekly food shops to white goods and cars.
We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications. #J-18808-Ljbffr