Transition Planning and Change Manager
| Posting date: | 30 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £35,663 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Candidates based in Yeading will receive the weighting allowance of £4,000 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 February 2026 |
| Location: | Bristol |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 446553/2 |
Summary
You will join a team who monitor and maintain the Configuration Management Database, assisting the lifecycle of all changes, enabling beneficial changes to be made with the minimum of disruption to IT services.
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!
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You will be:
- Responsible for the day-to-day management of change requests, ensuring a quality service is delivered and positive experience for customers.
- Managing the change process, ensuring ‘change’ is recorded, evaluated, prioritised, planned, tested, implemented, documented and reviewed in a controlled manner, this will require engagement with stakeholders at all levels within the organisation.
- Ensure that changes to Configuration Items are recorded in the CMS allow the organisation to correctly utilise these resources and ensure legal compliance.
- Responsible for coordinating activities across projects, suppliers, and service teams to enable transactions to be delivered with minimal disruption and greatest business benefit.
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 attached 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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