Change Manager
£78,000 per annum
Bedford
Fixed Term Contract (6 months)
Hybrid Working
Ready to lead meaningful change across an organisation that’s making a real difference? Join MaPS as a Business Change Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping the future. You’ll work across teams to assess readiness, plan and embed change, and ensure stakeholders are informed and empowered. From building change management plans to supporting benefit realisation through sustained embedment of new ways of working, your expertise will drive success across our Change Portfolio. Be part of a dynamic Change Community and help us deliver impactful transformation that matters.
You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.
Role Overview
The Change Manager will report directly to Business Change Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for:
Key Responsibilities for this role
- Adoption of ‘technical’ changes: This role will have a focus on adoption of new ways of working into a contact centre environment, on systems changes and systems integration into BAU operations. The contact centre runs 100% remotely, and is a mixture of current MaPS employees and additional colleagues joining MaPS in April
- ADKAR: MaPS is flexible of change methodology, but Prosci’s ADKAR is known and preferred. By taking colleagues on a journey through ADKAR, recognising colleagues as individuals experiencing change, the Change Managers role is to ensure changes are successfully adopted and embedded into the business
- Communications: Critical to success, working alongside other colleagues within the department, communications must be coordinated, targeted and meaningful, gaining advocacy for change, with 2‑way feedback built into the engagement process.
- Communities of Practice: To get buy‑in, and ensure adequate peer support, the change manager is to play a leading role supporting the development of communities of practice for key systems, and development of change champion networks were required
- Benefits: As projects and programmes progress into BAU, the change manager will be responsible for setting out the benefits, how these will be monitored, whether programme or BAU, backed up by sustainment plans to ensure successful outcomes
General role Responsibilities
- Managing Change: With a key focus on people change, and ensuring that colleagues impacted by change are ready, willing and able to commit to the change, adopting new ways of working, and transitioning to BAU effectively, is essential to this role
- Leadership and Delivery: Provide effective leadership in change management, assist in the development of a clear vision and standards, and directly support the capability building of change management principles at a leadership level and build strong internal and external networks.
- Building Networks: This role is working on high impacting and far-reaching projects, building strong networks and being able to influence direction of change to ensure value generation through adoption of change is maximised
- Change Management Community of Practice: Collaborate with key stakeholders at all levels to develop and progress business change / change management across the organisation building MaPS change management maturity
- Change Planning: Own the change plan for the project and contribute to the overall project plans for key strategic projects, sometimes working to demanding timelines within complex change projects.
- Operational Readiness: Manage operational readiness criteria and lead the go‑live decision process in collaboration with the Project Managers, project boards, SRO’s and business end‑users.
- Stakeholder Management: Manage stakeholder engagement, ensuring it meets Business Change requirements and act as the point of contact for senior/strategic stakeholders.
- Guidance and Support: Provide direction and guidance to the across the change portfolio as required.
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience.
- Significant experience in applying business change methodology within a formal project and programme environment.
- Proven track record of delivering change within customer‑facing operations and remote access/telephony services.
- Strong skills in stakeholder engagement, risk and issues management, and benefits realisation.
- Comprehensive understanding of all stages and elements of a programme and project lifecycle including planning, scheduling, resource management, governance, assurance, and business case development.
- Proficiency in using a range of change management frameworks and methodologies depending on project needs to ensure outcomes are sustained through the adoption of new ways of working
- Awareness of solutions development and budgeting and cost management.
What We Offer
- 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- Pension (2:1 matched contribution up to 10%)
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme (up to £3,000)
- Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
- Life assurance
- EAP Assist & Life
- Enhanced family and sick pay
- 2 paid volunteering days
- Recognition scheme
- Retail discounts portal
We’re proud to foster an inclusive, welcoming culture. Our colleague networks include LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health and ethnicity groups — and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.
Flexible Working
We believe work should fit around life. This Bedford‑based role offers genuine flexibility so you can balance work, family, and personal commitments. We come together for purposeful team collaboration to stay connected and drive great results.
Career Development
We love supporting internal growth and progression, while continuing to follow fair and open Civil Service recruitment practices.
Important Information About Applying
- Please apply only via official MaPS links – we can’t accept applications via email or unauthorised sites.
- MaPS is unable to offer visa sponsorship.
Reserve List: If you're successful at interview, we may place you on a reserve list for up to 6 months. If a similar role becomes available, you may be offered it without the need for another assessment.
If you believe your application hasn’t followed the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles, you can contact resourcing@maps.org.uk. If unresolved, you may then contact the Civil Service Commission.
Job Reference: MaPS01121
Close Date: 28/04/26
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