Change Manager

Job summary

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is the independent economic and safety regulator for Britain’s railways and monitor of performance on England’s strategic road network.

This is an exciting time to join ORR, we are delivering a significant transformation programme to create a consistently agile and enabling organisation, with the right capability and a strong, inclusive culture that reflects our talented people. This will ensure we continue to operate as an independent, expert regulator, fit for the future and equipped with the capabilities and ways of working required to support sector-wide rail reform, while contributing to the government’s broader agenda on regulatory reform and economic growth. Further detail on our future role is set outhere.

Job description

Corporate Operations leads on Finance, Procurement, HR, IT, Security, Estates, H&S & Organisational changes. The ORR is relatively small, so colleagues working in this directorate have both a hands-on role in daily operations & a strong understanding of how we work as well as a role in setting strategic direction and organisation performance.

• Are you someone who can take a big idea and shape it into a clear, actionable plan?
• Do you thrive in environments where you can experiment, iterate, and improve how things are done?
• Are you able to inspire, guide, and empower others?

This is a pivotal moment of change at ORR. We’re ramping up delivery of an organisation wide transformation programme that will assess how our role is changing and what we need to do differently, our organisation design and organisation development including our culture, values and behaviours. This will be supported by a key enablers workstream looking at our systems and governance.

Key to any transformation programme is landing and embedding change so that they become the new normal. In this role, you will lead change across the organisation, setting direction, embedding change management tools, assessing organisational readiness, and proactively preparing the business for the impact of upcoming changes.

It’s a role full of opportunity, suited to someone who is highly motivated, delivery focused, adaptable to shifting priorities, and confident in constructively challenging where needed.

As our Change Manager, you will build strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders across the organisation. You’ll work closely with colleagues helping them understand how change (including cultural change) will affect their teams and guide them through the transition, ensuring people are ready, willing, and able to adopt new ways of working. Understanding the change landscape will be critical to help us shape and land changes across a busy organisation, this role will own the change heatmap and help the programme workstreams to co-ordinate their changes.

Person specification

For key responsibilities please see the attached job description.

Additional Information

At ORR, our hybrid working means that we currently work from our workplace location a minimum of 40% of our working week, although requirements to attend other offsite locations for official business, also count towards this level of attendance. Working arrangements are subject to continuous review.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Knowledge and practical application of business change or change management approaches, including change planning, readiness assessment, benefits realisation and risk management.
• Knowledge of organisation development tools and techniques

Benefits

A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution of 28.97%

Details of our employee benefits can be found in the attached Candidate Information Pack.

Find out what our colleagues have to say about their ORR careers Our people Office of Rail and Road (orr.gov.uk).

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.For information on the selection process, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack and Job Description.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Victoria Rosolia
• Email : Victoria.Rosolia@orr.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : peopleservices@orr.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact ORR via email: peopleservices@orr.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website here: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitme…

Attachments

Change Manager Job Description Opens in new window (pdf, 137kB)ORR Job Information Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 1205kB)