Business Change Specialist

**How about being part of the change that matters.**

Are you ready to take up a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects? How about joining our talented team, where everyone has a voice, and together we face our clients' problems head-on. It's a diverse and inclusive work environment where world-class talent knows no distinctions.

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Our Transportation division in the UK brings together the capabilities of their key markets, Strategic Highways, Strategic Rail, Local Transport into a £375m+ turnover business of 3,000 talented engineers, technical professionals and management consultants.

The transport infrastructure sector is experiencing unprecedented levels of investment and Atkins is playing lead roles in key projects across the UK from high-speed rail to major road programmes to digital railway implementation. But it is not just about today, the business is investing, building new capability and services, and working closely with Government, national and local authorities to deliver integrated transport strategies and solutions that support economic growth and improved journeys for all.

To drive the Signalling part of our business forward, in 2019 we established a separate profit centre for the business, and as such have a dedicated communications and change specialist to support the communication and engagement of key change deliverables.

The distinct offer of roles in our Signalling business, where we design, build, test and commission signalling systems for our prime client Network Rail, provides a fantastic opportunity and focus, enabling Atkins to inspire their people and collaborate with their clients to shape the future of transportation.

The role may require travel within the UK from time to time.

**Requirements**:
**_ Qualifications -_**
- Degree educated or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline would be preferred, but is not essential.
- Professional qualification from a relevant discipline would be preferred, but is not essential.

**_ Essential Criteria -_**
- Proven experience in delivering organisational and project led business change.
- Proven experience in internal communications and/or employee engagement.
- Experience and understanding of various business change and communications models, tools and techniques to achieve desired business outcomes.
- Effective communication skills (visual, written and oral) to sell the business change needs to the stakeholders and audiences.
- Experience of sourcing and creating content for a range of online and offline channels.
- Confident to advise others (including senior stakeholders) on best practice.
- Able to build effective working relationships and influence people.
- High energy, with the drive and enthusiasm to make things happen.
- Highly organised and able to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Self-motivated and able to take ownership of projects with limited direction.
- Able to cope with ambiguity and manage stakeholders during periods of change.

**_ Desirable Criteria -_**
- Knowledge of the markets/industries that the organisation operates in.

**Responsibilities**:

- Liaise with key stakeholders and project leads to identify areas of change requiring engagement with the business.
- Develop strong relationships that enable you to fully understand the business strategy, change initiatives that sit within it, the challenges and contexts of the stakeholders and audiences you support.
- Advise stakeholder teams on how to most effectively engage the business on change initiatives.
- Advise project teams leading change initiatives by identifying the impact of change initiatives, providing support to create effective change management plans, supporting the co-ordination of workshops and user groups (if required), and measuring success criteria.
- Support with development and delivery of change and engagement strategy and plans at business and project level.
- Support the Managing Director and Senior Leadership Team with leadership communications to effectively engage our people and update the business on strategy and key milestones throughout the year.
- Devise effective reporting mechanisms and contribute to regular reporting on engagement performance.
- Work with the wider Transportation division’s internal communications manager to provide a consistent communication approach across the business and report on key activity, whilst maintaining existing communication frameworks and channels.
- There is also the opportunity to work with our external communication and marketing teams to improve t