Cultural Change Manager

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A new opportunity for a Cultural Change Manager has arisen in our Strategic Delivery and Transformation Team.

About the role:

This role is a critical role that enables us to mature our current programme of work into pro-actively shaping our culture. To achieve this there are two distinct objectives:

• Maturing our cultural monitoring and interventions through creating oversight to identify cultural trends and driving change to address gaps or opportunities.
  
• Providing end-to-end guidance and management of a discreet programme of work to support strengthening and celebrating our culture.
  

The first objective enabling us to shape the organisational culture requires the role to engage with all levels of our organisation to gather data and insight to identify and define cultural change work as our organisation matures. These data points range from creating new monitoring channels, informal data gathering, our annual Great Place to Work Survey, the Employee Partners and our range of Speak Up tools. The role will also review upcoming change and strategic priorities to identify areas of future impact. This insight should then be used to shape actionable interventions, identify opportunities or to escalate concerns to the correct governance. This may involve changing mindsets and approaches so strong change and influence skills are required.

The second objective is to programme manage an existing but early-stages cultural programme of work to ensure impact is delivered towards our current areas of focus. A key consideration is that this is a culture programme designed to enable those already delivering work rather than bringing it into a more traditional programme structure. To this end it must focus on engagement, collaboration and embedding the new approaches and thinking over speed of delivery. Critical to success is considering the wider ecosystem of support surrounding each piece of work to maximise impact and ensure benefits are realised and measured.

Bringing this all together is critical to provide an active view of the current culture, the ongoing interventions and their effectiveness and the recommendations for areas of future focus for our leadership teams and our Board.

About you:

This role requires a highly motivated leader, with the ability to effectively manage and inspire people through change.

We are looking for a cultural change manager who has experience leading culture programmes and influencing change at all levels.

Essential Skills Required:

If you don't meet all of these but have relevant skills and experience where you believe you can make a difference, we'd encourage you to apply.

Technical Skills and Experience:

• Consistent track record of leading and implementing cultural change, with demonstrable knowledge of change management skills
  
• Strong experience of delivering complex matrix programmes on time, in budget and to agreed quality standards
  
• Experience of providing high-quality succinct reporting
  
• Ability to quickly understand scientific, technical and process challenges and break down complex problems into actionable steps
  
• Programme management experience
  

Personal Skills and Attributes:

• A proactive approach and ability to work on own initiative, with creativity and flexibility
  
• Ability to work with complexity; to analyse situations and problems, develop and propose solutions, and follow through actions
  
• Strategic thinking, ability to see the 'bigger picture'
  
• Highly developed communication and influencing skills with experience of dealing with people at all levels successfully
  
• Excellent relationship builder
  

Other Information:

• Salary range in the region of £53-58,000
  

Application Process:

• First stage interviews are expected to take place between w/c 3rd and 10th June
  
• Closing Date for Applications: Monday 6th May.
  

Hybrid Working at Wellcome Sanger:

We recognise that there are many benefits to Hybrid Working; including an improved work-life balance, with more focused time, as well as the ability to organise working time so that collaborative opportunities and team discussions are facilitated on campus. The hybrid working arrangement will vary for different roles and teams. The nature of your role and the type of work you do will determine if a hybrid working arrangement is possible.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

We aim to attract, recruit, retain and develop talent from the widest possible talent pool, thereby gaining insight and access to different markets to generate a greater impact on the world. We have a supportive culture with the following staff networks, LGBTQ+, Parents and Carers, Disability and Race Equity to bring people together to share experiences, offer specific support and development opportunities and raise awareness. The networks are also a place for allies to provide support to others.

We want our people to be whoever they want to be because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work. That's why we're committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at Sanger Institute. We will consider all individuals without discrimination and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, where everyone can thrive.

Our Benefits:

We are proud to deliver an awarding campus-wide employee wellbeing strategy and programme. The importance of good health and adopting a healthier lifestyle and the commitment to reduce work-related stress is strongly acknowledged and recognised at Sanger Institute.

Sanger Institute became a signatory of the International Technician Commitment initiative In March 2018. The Technician Commitment aims to empower and ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research, across all disciplines.

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