19 Oct
Secret Intelligence Service
Central London
Job description
Department Technology Roles / *generated inline style * / Location(s) Central London / *generated inline style * / Salary £69,043 to £74,216, dependent on skills and experience, plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment once in role of £5,128.
generated inline style * / Job description
Flexible Working : We support full-time, part-time, compressed, and flexible working patterns. Due to the nature of the role home working is limited and not guaranteed.
About Us
We’re MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). Our mission is to protect the security and economic wellbeing of the UK from overseas threats such as regional instability, terrorism, and cyber-attacks.
Working across the globe and in close partnership with MI5 and GCHQ, we help the Government to counter these threats through the provision of secret intelligence.
A role in MI6 will see you providing vital support to this work, within a supportive and encouraging environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.
The Role
The world is full of change, and it’s no different at MI6. It’s an exciting time to join us, as we’re looking at the way we work and embracing every opportunity to improve and develop our operations, capabilities and people.
In this role you’ll work across MI6, and UKIC (UK Intelligence Community) navigating complex and rapid change. You’ll shape our transformation by translating business strategy into clear change strategies and plans.
Collaborating and working with service leaders and either joining or leading multidisciplinary teams, you’ll identify, change and transformation needs, deliver outcomes, and achieve strategic benefits,
ensuring that people and organisational impacts are central to our change and transformation efforts.
As a Senior Business Change Manager, you’ll partner with areas of the business undergoing rapid and long-term change. You’ll translate organisational and business area strategies into strategic and business change outcomes and deliverables, ensuring we understand the people and organisational implications that will make the change successful, long lasting and coherent.
You’ll support leaders to anticipate, assess and plan for change, applying a range of techniques to design, shape and embed change which addresses the true business needs and delivers tangible benefits.
Considering locally initiated, enterprise-level, and portfolio-level changes,
you’ll use your professional business knowledge to work within, and sometimes lead, multi-discipline change teams.
You’ll plan, deliver, embed, and evaluate various changes across the business whilst evolving the framework through which leadership and management of change is continuously improved.
Importantly, Senior Business Change Managers will work collegially and collectively with service leaders, key business stakeholders, and the broader Organisational Change professionals.
Through these collaborations you’ll systemise and professionalise change across the Service, and jointly develop approaches to achieve shared objectives.
Through partnering you’ll build change capability within the business area enabling others to understand, value and do change well,
shifting mindsets to be open to change and able to respond to increasing amounts of change.
- Acts as the conscience for change in the business area
- Coaches and mentors service leaders to become informed and effective agents of change
- Establishes and manages mechanisms to measure and assure quality
About You
As a Senior Business change manager, you’ll excel in change management, demonstrating effective strategies across various environments, from strategic to enterprise levels.
You’ll likely hold a professional qualification in change management or have equivalent experience.
You’ll be a skilled people manager, leading and delivering through others, including blended staff and contractor teams.
An effective communicator and facilitator, capable of coaching,
mentoring, and influencing both colleagues and senior leaders.
You’ll have a deep understanding of change theory and practice, and you’ll be comfortable using a variety of tools, techniques, and approaches to navigate ambiguity and complexity.
You’ll have experience in various roles such as Senior Change Manager, Lead Change Manager, or Head of Change Management.
With a customer and outcome-orientated mindset, you’ll build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the organization.
You’ll partner collaborate, and influence at the director level to design, plan and implement change.
Training and Development
When you join us, you’ll have a full induction into the organisation, which will help you get to grips with how we operate.
You’ll then have a team induction to give you a rounded understanding of business change, followed by on-the-job training to help you settle in.
We’re committed to developing our staff and recognise this will look different for everyone. We have an exceptional skills community, dedicated to supporting you.
There’ll be lots of tailored training, coaching, and mentoring, alongside opportunities to pursue career pathways which cover specialism tracks.
There’s plenty of room for growth in this role too, as we’ll support you through our Continuing Professional Development framework, in addition we’ll cover the cost and provide support by offering opportunities to gain further recognized change management qualifications.
Whatever your professional goals, we’ll work with you to build the skills you need to excel at your role, and throughout your career.
Rewards and Benefits
You’ll receive a starting salary for a Senior Change Business of £69,043 to £74,216, dependent on skills and experience, plus the opportunity to qualify for a skills payment of £5,128.
Other benefits also include :
- 25 days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays
- Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
- Interest-free season ticket loan (parking and travel)
- Excellent pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Facilities such as a gym and restaurant,
and on-site coffee bars (at some locations)
- Paid parental and adoption leave
Equal Opportunities
At MI6 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve.
This includes diversity in every sense of the word : those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.