Senior Change Manager - 12 month FTC
| Posting date: | 11 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £68,284 to £76,244 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 March 2026 |
| Location: | WC1H 9BT |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | University College London |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | B01-05456_1773220063 |
Summary
About us
UCL is one of the world's leading universities, consistently ranked among the global top institutions, with a diverse community of staff and students drawn from across the world. Within UCL, the Strategic Change function sits at the centre of the Vice-President (Operations) portfolio, shaping, delivering and embedding major transformation initiatives across the university.
The team ensures that change activity is aligned to institutional priorities, effectively managed and focused on delivering meaningful, measurable benefits. Working across faculties and professional services, Strategic Change plays a critical role in enabling UCL to realise its long-term ambitions through disciplined programme, project and change management.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join UCL's Strategic Change function on a 12-month fixed-term contract as a Senior Change Manager. Working within the Vice-President (Operations) portfolio, you will play a pivotal role in delivering complex transformation initiatives aligned to major digital, estates and organisational priorities, including transformation of timetabling services.
You will define and lead the change management approach across a portfolio of programmes, ensuring that people, process, technology and behavioural change are embedded successfully and that adoption is sustained. Operating at both strategic and operational levels, you will align change activity across the wider institutional landscape so colleagues experience a cohesive and well-managed transformation journey. You will provide trusted advice to senior leaders, coach sponsors to lead their teams effectively through change, and apply structured methodologies across both agile and waterfall environments to drive measurable benefits realisation. In addition, you will contribute to building and maturing change capability across UCL, supporting teams to embed best practice and continuously improve how change is delivered.
About you
You will bring significant experience of delivering large-scale change within a complex organisation, supported by recognised change or transformation training such as APMG or Prosci. You will have a strong track record of embedding practical change management techniques across digital and organisational design initiatives, ensuring that impact is understood, disruption is minimised and outcomes are realised.
An accomplished leader, you will be confident operating in both line and matrix environments, building strong relationships with senior stakeholders and influencing at all levels. You will combine strategic thinking with attention to detail, using insight and evidence to shape robust change plans that align with institutional priorities. Your communication and engagement skills will enable you to coach, challenge and inspire others, while your analytical judgement and resilience will ensure you can navigate ambiguity and complexity with confidence.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. Our department is working towards an Athena SWAN award. We are committed to advancing gender equality within our department.
You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/
Work at UCL pages: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/