Engagement and Change Specialist

**UE08 salary range: £43,414 - £51,805**

**Edinburgh Research Office / Growing Research Together Programme**

**Full Time 35 hrs per week - Secondment can be considered.**

**Fixed Term - 2 Years with possibility of extension.
**The Opportunity**

We have an exciting opportunity for an Engagement and Change Specialist to join our new team in the Growing Research Together Programme. You will work with the team to help solve our most complex challenges and support change whilst enabling our colleagues to build on their experience and co-create solutions with enthusiasm, flair, respect and plain language. You should be comfortable with the uncomfortable and find opportunities to create value for our researchers and research support colleagues, and ultimately the impact of their work.

Growing Research Together is an ambitious programme which seeks to deliver an organisation-wide transformation of research support services within a large and diverse world-leading research-intensive University. Research support underpins a research income of c.£300m p.a., and is delivered by circa 500 FTE across a range of central, College, and School/Institute-based functions. Our vision is to create a more resilient and robust service that meets the needs of our researchers, provides great job satisfaction and career development for our research support colleagues, and is financially sustainable. We are about to start a new phase of activity which needs an experienced engagement and change specialist at its heart. Your role will provide expertise to support the delivery of projects, communications and initiatives that aim to build on our good practice, and where necessary improve and change our research support services. You will work with and build key internal relationships across the university and in Schools, Units and Colleges.

**Your skills and attributes for success**

You’ll bring a deep knowledge of method and tools that drive change and will have experience working in large organisations on large initiatives. We’d expect you to be a team player who is energised by getting involved in building engaging approaches and always looking for ways to find solutions and build on good practice. You will be a practitioner that rolls up your sleeves and delivers. You will have skills and expertise in:

- Change Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Communications
- Organisation Design
- Development and alignment and value realisation
- Continuous Improvement.

As the Engagement and Change Specialist, you will be a key member of the senior management team. You will support decision-making and influencing a diverse multi-disciplinary network of stakeholders, and leading and supporting others with the development and delivery of high-quality and pragmatic transformation plans and creative solutions to capture people’s attention and inspire and include colleagues in creating our future research support services.

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We provide support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family-friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Click to access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of its commitment to advancing gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

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