Change Manager

Employment Type: Full time Fixed-Term Contract until 30th September 2027

Location: Hybrid · United Kingdom (multiple locations) - Bristol · Swindon · Birmingham · Manchester · York · Newcastle · Cambridge · Portsmouth

Salary: £40,778 (GBP) Band B

Team: Corporate Services

Seniority: Mid-level

Closing: 11:59pm, 27th Sep 2026 BST

Perks and benefits:

• Work from home option
• Wellness programs
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Additional parental leave
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Paid emergency leave
• Sabbatical Opportunities
• Mentoring/coaching
• Payroll giving
• Salary sacrifice
• Team social events
• Team lunches
• Extracurricular clubs
• Cycle to work scheme

Candidate happiness: 8.01 (12054)

Job Description Summary:

Historic England is the public organisation that brings new life to heritage to build a better future for every place and everyone. Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as a Change Manager. This is a full time, fixed-term contract until 30th September 2027. The location of this role is either York, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Cambridge, Swindon, Bristol, or Portsmouth inclusive with hybrid working. We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

What you will be doing:

The Change Manager leads the change management for major programmes, coaches leaders on smaller initiatives, and ensures a consistent change management approach across projects. The post holder will need to identify the scale and impact of the planned changes, analyse interdependencies and liaise roll out and training with other changes. They need to design interventions needed to achieve the desired changes in mindset, skills, and practice to successfully deliver the Strategic Plan. They collaborate with and support other change managers, lead resource updates, and collaborate with senior stakeholders and teams at all levels.

Who we are looking for:

• Experience of driving and delivering change initiatives that involve the people side of change using a change management methodology
• Excellent Communication Skills and ability to create a positive change narrative
• Experience of working with and influencing senior stakeholders
• Excellent facilitation skills in person and online
• Ability to work in and understand complex environments and projects
• Ability to deliver to tight deadlines while collaborating across the organisation

Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.

Historic England is a Disability Confident Leader and normally offers guaranteed interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role, where it is practical and appropriate to do so. We want all candidates to shine in the recruitment process, so please tell us what we can do to help you show us your very best self. For more information, please visit our Everyone is Welcome page, or contact us at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance. We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can. We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working.

Why work for Historic England:

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level. Historic England wants all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.

At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role. At Historic England, we value the expertise and individuality each candidate brings and want to hear about this in your own words. If you require the use of AI tools or other resources to support your application, we ask that all information is factually accurate, original, and reflects your own experience. To best represent yourself, we encourage you to write in your own words and use AI-generated content only as inspiration—not as direct input.

Provisional interview dates: 8th October 2026