Head of Change in Midlothian

Grade and Salary: Grade 9, Competitive Salary

FTE and working pattern: Full-time, 35hrs per week; Open-ended

Reward and Benefits: 33 days annual leave, plus 9 buildings closed days for all full time staff.

About our Team

Heriot-Watt University is a leading UK university recognised for world class teaching and impactful, industry relevant research, with a strong reputation for innovation and enterprise. The University operates across five campuses in the UK, Dubai and Malaysia, offering specialist programmes in science, engineering, design, business and languages, and is Scotland’s most international university by student cohort. The University operates within a complex and dynamic Higher Education environment, managing a diverse portfolio of strategic, regulatory, digital, academic and capital change initiatives.

The Global Project Management Office was established in 2022 to centralise delivery of a range of university projects, providing robust and consistent project management and delivering priority projects in support of the University’s strategic objectives. The team is based at our Edinburgh campus and is part of the Strategic Planning, Performance matrix responsibility for the enterprise change portfolio budget: c.£20m.

Accountable for:

• Authoring, maintaining and baselining the enterprise change portfolio and associated management information.
• Evolving and approving change processes, artefacts, templates and governance designs.
• Defining role profiles and recruiting change capability across the central change function.
• Delivery performance of large-scale strategic initiatives only where explicitly assigned by the Executive.

This job description is intended as a flexible framework which outlines the key general areas of activity in your position. Other activities may be required which are not outlined above but which are appropriate to the position and grade. Your personal objectives (PDR) will also set out specific tasks and objectives for you to achieve, including objectives to help your career development.

About Heriot-Watt University

At Heriot Watt we are passionate about our values and look to them to connect our people globally and to help us collaborate and celebrate our success through working together. Our research programmes can deliver real world impact which is achieved through the diversity of our international community and the recognition of creative talent that connects our global team. Our flourishing community will give you the freedom to challenge and to bring your enterprising mind and to help our partners with solutions that can be applied now and in the future. Join us and Heriot Watt will provide you with a platform to thrive and work in a way that also helps you live your life in balance with well-being and inclusiveness at the heart of our global community.

Heriot-Watt University is committed to securing equality of opportunity in employment and to the creation of an environment in which individuals are selected, trained, promoted, appraised and otherwise treated on the sole basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Equality and diversity are all about maximising potential and creating a culture of inclusion for all. Heriot-Watt University values diversity across our University community and welcomes applications from all sectors of society, particularly from underrepresented groups.

We welcome and will consider flexible working patterns e.g. part-time working and job share options.