Are you someone who can take a big idea and shape it into a clear, actionable plan? Do you thrive in environments where you can experiment, iterate, and improve how things are done? Have you got a leadership quality that enables you to inspire, guide, and empower others? When a team needs direction, are you the person who can bring insight and momentum?
If you’re somebody who excels at the intersection of leadership, innovation, and delivery then please get in touch.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Our work is focused on improving vehicle safety and environmental protection by providing robust testing and certification to national and internationally recognised standards. We are a part of the Department of Transport as the designated UK Vehicle Type Approval Authority. With more than 40 years’ experience, we have become one of the largest and well‑respected approval bodies. This position has been built on a reputation for technical expertise and quality.
The Change Manager will play a key role in shaping the future of the Vehicle Certification Agency, leading high‑impact change to support safe, secure and sustainable vehicle certification. At the heart of the VCA’s transformation, you will lead and embed complex initiatives aligned to the Business Plan, preparing the organisation for regulatory, technological and commercial change. You will build trusted stakeholder relationships, drive adoption of new ways of working, travel across sites, and help ensure the VCA remains resilient and respected.
Your main duties will include but will not be limited to:
- Stakeholder management: Identify, classify, and update the stakeholder engagement plan. Act as point of contact for senior stakeholders and lead stakeholder engagement activities
- Leadership and delivery: Provide visible and effective leadership in the business change management activities. Work with project managers to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes. Champion the use of best practice business change management standards, tools and processes. Build strong networks both internally and externally. Actively listen to, assess and understand the impact on stakeholders to improve the likelihood of their adoption of the change.
- Business case: Lead the change management elements of the business case.
- Change products: Lead the creation of the Business Change products for various projects. Lead on engagement with key contacts. Ensure products are used appropriately by the projects and stakeholders to embed the change.
- Change planning: Establish and maintain the change plan for projects and provide input into the overall Programme Plan.
- Business readiness: Identify, qualify, and update the business readiness assessments before implementation. Report the progress of these to Project Boards to feed in to go‑live decision points.
- Training: Work with business leads to complete training needs analysis and develop the required training. Assist in delivery where required.
- Benefits realisation: Work in partnership with Project Managers and stakeholders to plan and confirm benefits realisation as part of all Business Change activities.
- Change communication: Lead Business Change messaging, working closely with the Communications team. Provide content relating to Business Change across the portfolio that can be appropriately communicated.
- Risk Management: Identify, assess, and manage risks and issues associated with change. Escalate risks as appropriate.
- Guidance and support: Provide direction and guidance to the team and support the development of others.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only – whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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