Head of Organisational Change (Enterprise Foundations) in London

The opportunity Would you relish the opportunity to oversee and provide organisational change, organisational development and organisational design expertise, as British Heart Foundation (BHF) undertakes a major technology-enabled transformation programme: Enterprise Foundations? Are you able to liaise closely with the Business Integrator (BI) on change readiness and change planning, representing the voice of BHF, and ensuring that change, engagement, communications and training activities are designed appropriately, properly resourced and evolve the organisational culture? If so, we’d love you to join our Talent & Organisational Development team as our Head of Organisational Change for Enterprise Foundation.

About the role In this role you’ll have responsibility for the end-to-end change life cycle, leading the people side of change connected to Enterprise Foundations, including changes to ways of working and cultural change. You’ll work with stakeholders to solve complex challenges, guiding and influencing them through critical transformation. You’ll also provide change leadership that enables these stakeholders to achieve their transformation goals and better deliver their strategic objectives. Leading on organisational design and operating model change connected to Enterprise Foundations, you’ll ensure that it is resourced appropriately and linking it to other organisational design work across BHF. You’ll also liaise with Transformation Directors, our Head of Organisational Change, Head of Internal Communications, People Business Partners and the team to support our People Experience, Technology strategy and the delivery of BHF's strategy to 2030 – a key aspect of which is delivering technology transformation through the Enterprise Foundations programme.

Working arrangements Please note this is a 9‑12 month fixed‑term contract covering family leave. This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

About you You’ll have previous experience influencing stakeholders and gaining buy‑in to change, communication and engagement activities. You’ll also be able to create and implement change plans that are tailored to the needs of Enterprise Foundations, enabling the successful transition to new ways of working. With a Post Graduate qualification in organisational change/business change/behaviour, or equivalent experience, you’ll have previous knowledge and application of change models and organisational design principles, being able to identify the cultural shift needed to achieve strategic technology transformation, translating that into interventions to deliver and embed behaviour and culture change. Able to work with senior leaders you’ll be able to develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders which support behavioural change to enable successful technology transformation is essential. You’ll have a passion for solving complex business challenges, and will have strong problem‑solving skills, being able to exercise mature judgement, flexing plans where necessary to achieve impact.

To be successful in this role, you also have:

• Project management experience
• Previous experience of developing and implementing organisational design programmes
• Experience of supporting culture change programmes that adopt new ways of working.

Belonging at BHF By embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment, we strengthen our ability to achieve our mission of saving and improving lives, ensuring our work reflects and serves the needs of every community across the UK.

Benefits and development At BHF, we offer a comprehensive range of benefits designed to support our colleagues' wellbeing and professional growth. To find out more about our benefits you can download the Benefits document at the bottom of this page or check out our Benefits and Development pages. Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.

Interview process We aim to run a single stage, in‑person interview, which will include a presentation element, at our London offices. However, depending on application numbers, the process may include an initial Teams interview followed by this final in‑person stage interview.

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