Change Manager

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You will be joining a key organisation within Scotland's public sector. This is a 6-month contract opportunity (inside IR35) offering a day rate of £550, with a hybrid working model.

As Change Manager, you will play a key role in delivering and embedding transformation across a diverse portfolio of programmes and projects. Working across business-critical initiatives, you will lead change activity aligned to recognised frameworks such as ADKAR, ensuring successful adoption and long-term sustainability.

You will collaborate with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including senior public sector partners, driving effective communication, engagement and alignment. The role will span multiple work streams, including IT system implementations and facilities improvement.

A key part of your remit will be ensuring robust knowledge transfer, minimising disruption, and enabling teams to transition effectively to new ways of working. You will also support benefits realisation activities, helping to ensure that change initiatives deliver measurable and lasting outcomes.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to high-impact projects that support critical services across Scotland.

What you'll need to succeed

You will bring a strong track record in change management, ideally within complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Experience working with structured change methodologies such as ADKAR is highly desirable.
You will have proven experience in stakeholder engagement, with the ability to build and manage relationships across public sector organisations or similarly regulated environments. Strong communication and influencing skills are essential.
Experience delivering change across a mix of project types - such as IT transformations, facilities management initiatives etc - will be important. You will also have a solid understanding of knowledge transfer and embedding sustainable change within organisations.
Experience supporting benefits realisation, including tracking and measuring outcomes, is key. Above all, you will be a proactive, adaptable professional who can operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

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