Our transformation agenda in Norfolk Children’s Services is succeeding for children and young people. We have a track record of successful project delivery, and the impact of our transformation journey has been endorsed by multiple successful inspections. We have further large-scale change underway making this is an exciting opportunity to be part of our highly skilled team and drive forward transformation at pace to ensure children and young people in Norfolk can flourish.
Now is a fantastic moment to join our team:
you have support from and direct access to our senior leaders who are open to new ideas and people who think differently
we have a substantial investment fund to deploy and a mandate to make change happen
the team has a great reputation and will invest in your development
there are major programmes in place with significant momentum, but also substantial scope to develop new schemes, projects and concepts from the ground up
As a Business Design and Change Manager, you will challenge the status quo and generate ideas through insight from across the Council and externally, using facilitation and innovation tools to prompt ideas and generate positivity about change.
You will convert ideas into ambitious proposals to formulate strong, evidence based and robust business cases to secure sign off. You will build squads that will drive development and delivery and will initiate handover to business as usual at the optimum time.
Appropriate challenge and support to senior managers, business and workstream leads is a key part of this role. Alongside this, you will coach colleagues in business design and change techniques to develop a transformational culture and ethos in Children’s Services.
With a track record of change management and leadership, you’ll evidence your creativity in developing new solutions and applying concepts from one area to another. As a strong communicator and influencer, you’ll build energy around the agenda with financial acumen to understand financial triggers in a complex organisation.
Public or private sector - you’ll be the ideas person with exceptional change and transformation skills. You’ll have the intellectual curiosity to systematically change outcomes for children and young people.
Is this you? Interested? To discuss the role in more details please contact Emma Cooper (Head of Business Design and Improvement) on 01603 217753 or Keith Holmes (Strategy, Planning and Change Programme Manager) on 01603 223843.
All our office-based roles are currently hybrid as part of our Smarter Working plans. We anticipate that working remotely will be a key feature of this role, but when you work from the office your base will be County Hall, Norwich. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely or in a hybrid fashion.