Change Lead

On behalf of Homes England, we are looking for X2 Change Leads (Inside IR35) for a contract until the end of March 2026. This is a remote working role (flexibility required for travel on an ad hoc basis - London and/or Birmingham).

Homes England, the government's housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government's Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

As a Change Lead, your main responsibilities will be:

• Ensuring the successful delivery and adoption of transformational change across the Agency by leading the planning, implementation, and realisation of business change and benefits.
• Driving measurable value from change initiatives by embedding benefits management practices that link programme delivery to tangible business outcomes.
• This is a key change leadership role where you will work across complex, high-value programmes to ensure people, processes, and systems are prepared for change and that the intended benefits are clearly defined, tracked, and realised.
• You will act as the bridge between programme delivery and the business, ensuring change is adopted sustainably and delivers lasting impact.
• As part of the wider Enterprise Portfolio and Change community, you will champion best practice in benefits realisation and business change management, contributing positively to the Agency's mission, values, and behaviour

Essential:

• Significant demonstrable experience leading business change in a large, complex organisation (public sector experience preferred).
• Prosci/Adkar qualified
• Proven expertise in benefits management across the full lifecycle: identification, baselining, target setting, measurement, and realisation.
• Experience of designing and maintaining benefits frameworks, dashboards and governance for major transformation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with experience of working with senior leaders and holding business areas to account.
• Strong analytical and numeracy skills with experience of simple financial modelling and presenting quantified business outcomes.
• Practical experience of readiness assessments, adoption planning, communications and training to embed change into BAU.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to produce clear business case and reporting material.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, work autonomously and provide pragmatic judgement in complex delivery settings.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Homes England guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

Homes England guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".