Overview

Business Change Officer | 8830 | Fixed Term Contract/Secondment Opportunity until 31/10/2027 - 2 Roles Available | 37 hours per week | £39,862 - £41,771 per annum | Scale J | Norwich

We’re looking for a Business Change Officer to join Norfolk County Council (NCC) to support work on our most complex, long-standing, and systemic challenges. It’s an interesting and challenging role, one that focuses on the people side of change. You will be involved in driving the adoption, embedding and sustaining of implementation of solutions and the associated change to deliver benefits for the council, those who use our services, and Norfolk residents.

Our Vision and Values

At NCC we are fiercely ambitious for the people of Norfolk and strive to be one of the highest performing counties in the country. Our Corporate Strategy is Better Together, for Norfolk, with three guiding principles:

• We want Norfolk to be the place where everyone can start life well, live well and age well, and where no one is left behind.
• We want our economy to be vibrant, entrepreneurial and sustainable, supported by the right jobs, skills, training and infrastructure.
• We want our communities to feel safe, healthy, empowered and connected, their individual distinctiveness respected and preserved.

Our values set out what’s important about how we work, giving us a shared language and meaningful guide to help us deliver services in a way that underpins and reflects our commitment to the people of Norfolk.

Our Core Values are:

• Accountable - We are honest and accountable.
• Inclusive - We champion inclusivity and equity.
• Ambitious - We want a better future for Norfolk.
• Trusted - We build and maintain trust.

Role and Responsibilities

The Business Change Officer is a key role and will work collaboratively with colleagues to support the design and delivery of people-centred public services. It will involve working with our key departments across the organisation to ensure positive outcomes for the people of Norfolk.

The role will support managers and teams to embed changes through redesigning ways of working, you will help to ensure appropriate training plans are developed and there is good communication of the change. You will focus on what people need to do differently to deliver the desired change.

You will be a strong advocate of collaborative working, evidence-based decision making and taking a methodological yet flexible approach. You’ll be a key member of the team that reports to one of the Business Change Managers.

To be considered for this role you’ll need to be great at working with people. You will have experience of working on successful business change and ideally, you’ll have worked in a large, complex environment. You’ll understand the importance of taking a holistic approach on complex business change and be good at working with stakeholders to build and maintain buy-in. You’ll be able to undertake gap analyses and assess readiness for change. You’ll also have experience of leading others through business change, using a range of interventions, training and support to deliver sustained results and achieve desired project outputs.

We’re looking for someone who can work collaboratively and gain the confidence of their stakeholders, can assimilate information quickly, simplify and communicate complex concepts and who is confident in working in a multi-disciplinary team. You will be able to negotiate conflicting needs to an amicable solution and evidence the impact of change. You will have experience of leading teams successfully. You’ll need first class communication and relationship building skills, a positive and proactive approach, the ability to manage your own workload and a real desire to drive collaborative and evidence-based change.

What We Offer

There’s the role itself, where you will play a key role in developing and implementing a new approach to challenges that will have positive benefits for the county of Norfolk and could lead to new good practice. Then there’s the working environment here, where we put work life balance at the forefront and offer flexible, hybrid working arrangements, all underpinned by first class technology. We’re open to people working from home for a significant portion of the time, but if you’re already in (or would consider relocating to) Norfolk, we think our unique blend of beaches, broads, countryside, culture and cuisine is hard to beat!

Application and Closure

If you’re still reading, and you think you have what it takes, then we would love to hear from you. For an informal conversation about the role please contact John Neild at john.neild@norfolk.gov.uk.

Redeployment closing date: 5th September at 23:59. All other applicants closing date: 19th September at 23:59.

We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need
• Financial benefits such as:
• “Norfolk Rewards” our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything
• A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
• Relocation expenses (where applicable)
• An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
• Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions
• Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
• Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
• A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

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