Contract: Fixed-Term, 12 Months (37.5 hours per week)
Salary: £45,540 - £54,338 per annum (London) or £41,400 - £50,198 per annum (Manchester)
Closing Date: Friday 15th November 2024
Interviews will be held w/c Monday 18th November 2024.
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for Strategy and Change Manager to join our Strategy and Communications directorate based in London or Manchester.
About us
We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently. Centrepoint provides homeless young people with accommodation, health support and life skills to get them back into education, training, and employment. We want to end youth homelessness by 2037.
Together with our partners, we support over 16,000 young people each year.
You will be responsible for developing and delivering key strategic change initiatives and projects, as well as overseeing Centrepoint’s annual business planning process. These efforts will support our strategic goal of ending youth homelessness by 2037.
In this role, you will:
- Advise on and implement strategic and change issues, championing the strategy and change function across the organisation.
- Provide a service that drives:
- Focus: Ensuring effective resource planning and change management within the organisation.
- Engagement: Facilitating rganisational involvement in change and planning processes based on our needs.
- Success: Prmoting organisational engagement in the business planning process, effective change management, and the implementation of the change board.
About you
- Effective communicator with a natural ability to facilitate open and honest conversations.
- Decisive and strategic thinker with a can-do attitude.
- Respectful and empathetic, always considering the impact on young people.
- Flexible, adept at adapting to changing needs.
- Engaging, committed to self-development through training and continuous learning.
- Proactive, always seeking creative ways of working.
What you’ll be doing
- Reviewing Centrepoint's organisational change process, recommending areas for improvement and ensuring that they complement the wider strategic planning cycle.
- Improving Centrepoint's change governance, including the re-implementation of a change governance group to review proposed changes which:
- have an impact n staff across multiple directorates.
- require new technlogy systems.
- have cmplex dependencies or high-level organisational risk.
- Leading cross-directorate working groups to deliver key projects.
- Supporting and facilitating the creation of outline business cases for proposed change initiatives.
Ideally you will have change and project management experience and preferably a project management qualification, in addition to confidence in delivering the points above.
Why join Centrepoint?
In return for your efforts, you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:
- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
- Healthcare cash plan (Cover the costs of a wide range of medical treatment including Dental, Optical, Complementary and Alternative therapies).
- Private Medical insurance
- Income protection
- Employer pension contributions of 5%
- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
- An interest-free travel loan
At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all our colleagues are made to feel included in the work we do and that we value the rich diversity within the organization.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people’s services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.
Centrepoint’s policy is to recruit, employ and promote people based on their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees and volunteers receive equal treatment.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Strategy and Change Manager click ‘Apply’ now!
