About us
At Lothian Pension Fund (LPF), we administer the local government pension scheme (LGPS) in Edinburgh and the Lothians and are one of approximately a hundred LGPS funds in the UK. We’re an asset-backed and multi-employer scheme with around £10.3 billion of assets and we were 157% funded at our last valuation in 2023. We’re proud to serve over 95,400 members and 58 contributing employers.
LPF is a growing, vibrant, and exciting place to work. We offer flexible working and a blended work model, working both from home and our spacious city centre office. We have many social and wellbeing initiatives to ensure we keep our sense of community alive even during challenging times.
The continued professional development of our colleagues is important to us, so we provide access to a wide range of resources to build their expertise, skills and confidence.
The Role
The Change Manager is responsible for developing and embedding a comprehensive change management framework and culture across the organisation to ensure that business, operational, regulatory and strategic change is delivered effectively, consistently and with appropriate governance. Collaboration with programme office function is a critical aspect of development, delivery and ongoing management and maintenance of the framework and culture.
The role will develop and maintain change management methodologies, project governance standards, and reporting capabilities to provide clear visibility of all change activity across the business. Working closely with senior leadership team, project sponsors, departments, suppliers and third-party providers, the Change Manager will help ensure that change initiatives are prioritised, managed and implemented in a controlled manner that supports our business plan, regulatory compliance and improved member outcomes.
The Change Manager will also lead key projects and drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and promoting best practice in project and change management across the organisation.
Key responsibilities for this role include:
- Develop, promote, manage and continuously improve the organisation's change management framework, methodologies, standards and governance processes.
- Establish a consistent approach to project delivery, change control, risk management and benefit realisation.
- In partnership with programme office, develop and implement formal change and reporting processes, ensuring best practice is adopted as appropriate, providing accurate and timely routine and ad hoc updates to the Senior Leadership Team and other governance forums as required.
- Act as Project Manager for key strategic and operational initiatives, leading multidisciplinary project or change teams to deliver agreed outcomes.
- Track project progress, risks, issues, dependencies and benefits, ensuring timely escalation where required.
- Manage all phases of the project lifecycle, including business case development, requirements gathering, analysis, planning, governance, implementation, testing, training, transition and post-implementation review.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with senior leaders, project sponsors, teams and external partners.
- Develop stakeholder engagement and communication plans to support project success and organisational readiness.
- Facilitate workshops, steering groups and project meetings, ensuring stakeholders are informed and engaged throughout the change lifecycle.
- Work collaboratively with external suppliers and service providers involved in change initiatives
- Identify, assess and manage project and change-related risks, issues and dependencies.
- Responsible for ensuring projects operate within established governance frameworks
What experience are we looking for?
The following requirements are essential for this role:
- Extensive proven change management experience as a change or project manager in a financial services environment, ideally in a pensions or investments firm.
- Proven experience implementing change management methodology and processes
- Ability to effectively lead meetings and manage and collaborate with key stakeholders
- Change management or project management qualification is desirable
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to build, maintain, and strengthen internal relationships
- Clean basic vetting checks.
How to apply and the assessment process
Please upload your CV and a covering letter, which includes a supporting statement explaining why you’d be a great fit for the role. CVs on their own won’t be accepted as an application for the role.
Our core and flexible benefits
You’ll benefit from a highly competitive salary, a discretionary variable pay award and a wide range of colleague benefits, including:
- A generous defined benefit pension scheme
- A hybrid model of working, both from home and in our new office in the centre of Edinburgh
- Flexible working to support both your needs and those of our organisation
- An all-inclusive gender-neutral parent policy covering maternity, paternity, surrogacy, and adoption
- A free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support you and your family through any concerns or challenges you may face
- Award programme based on peer-to-peer nominations
- A cash bonus recruitment referral programme
- Access to the Salary Extras portal which offers to a range of amazing discounts and services such as a voluntary healthcare plan, gym and retailer discounts, bike to work and tech scheme
Equal Opportunities (including our support for Public Sector Equality Duty)
Lothian Pension Fund is committed to promoting a diverse, equal, and inclusive culture and welcomes applications from people of all sectors of the community.
We encourage people from under-represented communities to apply, including but not limited to those with disabilities, from minority ethnic groups, who are part of the LGBT+ community, and all those who feel their voices are not commonly represented.
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