Head of Transformation and Change Delivery
Glasgow
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Permanent
£80,172 - £92,533 a year
- Lead the Transformation and Change Delivery unit to achieve strategic objectives and manage complex, organisation-wide programmes.
- Ideal candidates should possess senior leadership experience, strong programme management skills, and communication abilities.
- Full-time position based in Glasgow with a comprehensive Civil Service pension and focus on organisational cultural transformation.
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Job summary
You will be accountable for turning our strategic ambition into measurable, organisation wide outcomes. Leading a new unit, you will set the standards, governance and delivery discipline for all major programmes and complex change initiatives across COPFS.
You will operate as a trusted partner to Directors and Programme boards, providing clear insight, challenge and assurance across a diverse portfolio of change that spans digital, service, organisational cultural transformation. Where delivery is fragmented or uncertain, you will bring clarity, structure and momentum.
Alongside hands on accountability for high-risk, high-profile programmes, you will build long term delivery capability across the organisation ? developing people, strengthening ways of working and embedding a culture of outcome focussed change.
Reporting to the Director of Transformation and Change, you will work across organisational boundaries and on occasion, deputise at senior leadership level.
Job description
Strategic Programme & Portfolio Leadership
? Provide senior leadership across COPFS?s transformation and change delivery portfolio, with accountability for the successful delivery of major, complex programmes spanning multiple interdependent projects.
? Translate organisational strategy and priorities into clear, coherent programme roadmaps with defined outcomes, benefits, milestones and success measures.
? Maintain oversight of interdependencies across the portfolio, ensuring priorities are aligned and delivery activity remains focused on achieving agreed outcomes.
Governance, Assurance & Decision Support
? Set and embed proportionate governance, standards and ways of working for programme and change delivery across COPFS.
? Ensure effective planning, risk, issue, dependency and financial management across programmes, with clear escalation routes and decision making mechanisms.
? Provide high-quality, insight led reporting and assurance to Programme Boards and senior leaders, enabling timely, evidence based decisions.
Delivery of High-Risk and High-Profile Change
? Take hands-on accountability for the delivery of selected high-risk, high-profile or strategically critical transformation programmes.
? Intervene where delivery is fragmented or off-track, bringing clarity, structure and pace while balancing ambition with realism.
? Ensure benefits are realised and measurable, and that change is implemented in a way that is sustainable and embedded within the organisation.
Leadership & Capability Building
? Build, lead and develop a high-performing transformation and change delivery team, including coaching, mentoring and supporting colleagues to build delivery capability and confidence.
? Establish a strong community of practice for programme and change professionals, promoting continuous learning, consistency and professional standards.
? Role model inclusive, collaborative leadership and a strong focus on outcomes, quality and continuous improvement.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
? Work in close partnership with Directors, the Portfolio Management Office, Digital, Finance, Business Design & Analysis and operational areas to ensure end-to-end delivery of transformation activity.
? Build effective relationships across COPFS and with external stakeholders where required, influencing and negotiating to secure commitment to delivery priorities.
? Lead and facilitate delivery planning workshops and senior discussions, interpreting complex information quickly and guiding groups towards clear conclusions and actions.
Corporate Contribution
? Contribute as a senior leader within the Transformation and Change Directorate, supporting collective leadership and coherence across its functions.
? Deputise for the Director of Transformation and Change as required, representing delivery perspectives at senior leadership level.
Person specification
? Has led complex, multi strand change at enterprise scale
? Is comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping new functions
? Brings authority, judgement and influence at senior levels
? Is motivated by building capability as well as delivering outcomes
? Is excited by the opportunity to modernise delivery in a complex public service environment
You do not need to come from the justice system to be able to apply for this role. We welcome experience gained in other large public bodies, arms-length organisations or complex private sector environments where comparable scale and complexity can be demonstrated.
You may have professional qualifications such as MSP, PRINCE2, Agile, PMP, PgMP or similar, or equivalent depth of experience and expertise in programme management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall) and tools.
Membership of, or alignment to, the Project Delivery Profession or equivalent would be desirable but is not essential.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Developing Self and Others
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- See application pack for details.
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
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Selection process details
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
See our vetting charter .
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)
- 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
Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Jenny Stewart
- Email : jenny.stewart@copfs.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : recruitment@copfs.gov.uk
Glasgow
New Jobs
Permanent
£80,172 - £92,533 a year