Strategic Change Lead

**Strategic Change Lead**
**Contract term: Permanent, full-time** 

**Hours: 37 hours over 5 days** 
**Location: Hybrid**
**Salary: Grade 8 £32,389 rising to £35,026 per annum**

If you would like to work for an organisation that demonstrates outstanding commitment to staff engagement, has gained a place on the Times Best 100 Companies to work for in the UK for the last eight consecutive years and that holds Investors in People Platinum accreditation we would love to hear from you 

**What you’ll do: **

We’re looking for a Strategic Change Lead to play a key role in delivering and embedding ACT’s Strategic Plan. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced change professional to drive organisation-wide transformation and ensure projects are successfully delivered, adopted, and sustained.

You’ll lead major strategic initiatives — from planning through to delivery — ensuring they achieve measurable impact. Working closely with the Senior Leadership Team and colleagues across the business, you’ll help shape how ACT evolves to meet its strategic goals, enhance performance, and improve the learner and employee experience.

ACT is committed to promoting the Welsh language for both staff and learners, and whilst it is not considered essential criteria, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role.

**About You**

We’re looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced environment, be confident engaging at all levels, and have the credibility to influence and lead through change.

**Essential Skills & Experience**:

- Proven experience leading projects and/or business change initiatives in a complex organisation.
- Recognised qualification in project or change management (e.g. PRINCE2, APM, Agile, Prosci, Change Management Institute).
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
- Excellent organisational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results under pressure.

**Desirable**:

- Experience within the education, training, or skills sector.
- Familiarity with both waterfall and agile methodologies.
- Experience in benefits realisation and performance reporting.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Change Leadership**: Act as the lead for business change activities, ensuring strategic initiatives are embedded effectively into everyday practice.
- **Project Delivery**: Manage the delivery of defined strategic projects from scoping through to completion, ensuring milestones, outputs, and outcomes are achieved.
- **Benefits Realisation**: Work with sponsors and stakeholders to define, track, and evidence the benefits of change initiatives.
- **Stakeholder Engagement**: Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to enable successful delivery and adoption.
- **Change Readiness & Support**: Assess organisational impacts of change, plan mitigation, and support staff to adopt new processes, systems, or ways of working.
- **Monitoring & Reporting**: Provide accurate, concise updates on project and change progress, risks, and issues to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
- **Problem-Solving**: Identify barriers to delivery or adoption and work collaboratively to resolve them.
- **Continuous Improvement**: Capture lessons learned to strengthen ACT’s project and change management capability.

**Why work for ACT? **

As Wales’s largest Training Provider, ACT is all about people. With a family feel culture we believe our employees are our greatest asset. We’re all extremely passionate about making a positive difference to people’s lives by providing excellent learning programmes and opportunities. 

**Our Values: **

At ACT, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture of respect, fairness, and dignity for all. We believe in creating an inclusive environment where every individual feels valued and empowered to thrive.

**Diversity statement**

ACT is dedicated to fair and safe recruitment practices, ensuring equality for all applicants and staff. We do not discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Our questioning and collating of information are intended to help us maintain equal opportunities best practice and identify barriers to workforce equality and diversity. The information collated from you will not be used in any decision affecting you. 

**What next?: **

**An interview process consisting of: **
- A face to face interview at our Head Office with a work based task (for example - a micro teach, presentation etc, full details will be provided before interview).

We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know. 

**Safeguarding**:
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £32,389.00-£35,026.00 per year

**Benefits