Project Change Lead
Employer: Police Digital Service
Location: This is a remote role with occasional travel require to attend meetings.
Temporary: FTC 12 Months with potential for extension.
Working hours: Full time, Flexible working hours - We trust you to do your job and we appreciate that life doesn’t always fit around a 9 to 5 workday. We operate core hours of 10 to 4, Monday to Friday (37hr week)
Salary: £56,500 Per Annum
Closing date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025
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Join Police Digital Service as a Project Change Lead - 2 roles available. Salary £56,500 per annum.
FTC 12 Months with potential for extension.
This role holder will engage with policing and partner agencies at a local/regional/national level to influence and coordinate the national transition, delivery and business change of specific allocated programmes/projects (please note that this role will require extensive travel to forces/other agencies).
Our Values are:
We value People
We do the right thing
We are innovative
We are one Team
We are proud and passionate
Key Responsibilities
Stakeholder identification and management activities to support the business change and project delivery
Act as the main programme/project point of contact and responsible party for coordinating with key stakeholders the on-boarding of designated forces to allocated programme/project(s).
Collaborate to enable production of communication materials and plans to support business change. Monitor progress against business change plans, reporting progress and managing risk and issues that arise.
Plan, lead and deliver programme/project workstreams related to business change as outlined in the programme/project plan.
Work with the on-boarding force’s relevant teams to ensure the appropriate business change activities have been planned and implemented, sharing best practice where applicable, transferring specialist knowledge and sharing learning and best practice across forces.
Produce go live deployment plans and business change plans to enable change to be delivered and adopted successfully.
Coordinate, lead and facilitate workshops and meetings as required, and attend relevant meetings in the designated force areas. Chair key internal and external meetings to progress programme/project delivery in accordance with the national delivery plan.
Build and maintain effective relationships with Chief Officers and Tactical Leads to achieve buy in and commitment to allocated programme/project(s), supporting policing in forming and running appropriate programme/project governance structures and reporting, and identifying and disseminating best practice.
Promote cross-agency collaboration throughout the life cycle of the programme/project, engaging with local/regional/national stakeholders as required.
Coordinate and lead the completion of business and technical change impact assessments, readiness assessments, benefits baselining and realisation, and communications activities in forces.
What you need to succeed in the role
Extensive experience across policing, law enforcement or criminal justice.
Evidence of planning, leading, and delivering business change and tactical programme/project delivery in complex, multiagency environments.
Ability to evaluate, analyse and swiftly summarise information; numerate with a keen eye for detail and a passion for accuracy in written reports.
Evidence of excellent verbal and written communications skills to produce high quality briefings and collateral.
Ability to negotiate and influence decision making in an environment without direct authority over others.
Evidence of effective stakeholder management and multi-agency collaboration, able to manage and communicate with stakeholders of varying levels of seniority.
Ability and confidence to work and think independently as well as part of a team.
Ability to act with discretion, maintaining confidentiality where appropriate.
Confident use of technology and good grasp of digital agenda.
Proven experience of business change delivery.
Experience of risk, issue and dependency management and mitigation in a project/programme environment.
Experience of law enforcement transformation projects.
Experience of designing, building and embedding transition processes.
For a full list of responsibilities and criteria, please refer to the Candidate Pack.
Why Join us?
Balance is important and we want you to take time off to recharge - we offer 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. Holiday Purchase also available
Flexible working hours - We trust you to do your job and we appreciate that life doesn’t always fit around a 9 to 5 workday. We operate core hours of 10 to 4, Monday to Friday (37hr week)
We care about your well-being - we have an EAP that offers not just welfare benefits but also retail discounts
Plan for the future - we offer an excellent pension scheme and life assurance cover
Put your mind at rest regarding your health - offering remote GP, mental health and physiotherapy appointments via video consultation
Family - Enhanced maternity and paternity pay along with a flexible return to work
You can find out more here:
Benefits - Police Digital Service (pds.police.uk)Diversity, equity and inclusion
We are committed to equal opportunities for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. All applicants will be considered without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, nationality, neurodiversity or disability status.
Working Arrangements
This is a remote role with occasional travel require to attend meetings.
All applicants must be eligible to undergo NPPV3 (Non Police Personnel Vetting Level 3) and SC vetting clearances. Successful applicants will require NPPV3 clearance to have been cleared before starting with PDS.
Please note, we may choose to close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications so please endeavour to complete your application as soon as possible
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