Organisational Design and Change Partner
| Posting date: | 29 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £54,857 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National Minimum Salary: £54,857: London Minimum Salary: £59,686 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 418849/3 |
Summary
Do you have experience delivering people transformation projects, including structural changes, transfers like TUPE, and culture shifts within diverse teams?
Have you worked collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams, providing expert leadership and ensuring high-quality, end-to-end delivery that influences future priorities and gains stakeholder confidence?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DFT.
We’re seeking a skilled professional to join DfT’s Organisational Design and Change Division, leading key transformation programmes that ensure the department delivers efficiently and effectively for the public. You’ll work within a small team driving people-focused change across major initiatives, including Rail Reform. Strong communication and relationship-building skills are essential to advise leaders and support culture change. If you’re passionate about championing change and thrive in complex environments, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Lead or implement Organisation Design activity, ensuring alignment with DfT’s future ambitions and wider change, workforce and design priorities
- Assess the as-is structure and define the to-be design for functions using analytical tools and techniques, and ensuring best practice OD principles are embedded
- Deliver key people transformation projects and be a member of people workstreams for wider change programmes. This could include working on formal internal structural changes; TUPE and similar transfers; or creating changes to culture and ways of working within existing teams
- Work effectively as part of your own team and a wider multi-disciplinary team including HR Business Partners and leaders in the organisation, so that organisational and people changes are done in the best way
- Provide the best professional expertise and support to others – directly as a line manager or indirectly through matrix or collaborative working
- Ensure work is delivered exceptionally well end to end – from contracting at the outset, to setting up clear plans and communications and through to full evaluation and lessons learned from work completed - so that future activity is set up in the best way and gains the confidence of stakeholders
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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