Senior Strategy and Change Practitioner @ Hackajob Ltd

Salary: £69,999 - 69,999 per year

Requirements

• Experience working in a transformation team to deliver valuable, lasting change
• Ability to combine knowledge of digital technologies with the ability to manage, interpret and use data to inform decisions, improve efficiency, and achieve outcomes and benefits
• Working knowledge of change methodologies, business transformation frameworks, and strategy frameworks and methodologies
• Ability to create compelling visions and maintain roadmaps for change
• Familiarity with how change happens in the public sector, for example, the GDS Service Manual
• Ability to articulate client ambitions, gather insight, deliver analysis, and solve problems
• Ability to collect, evaluate, and recommend options for transformation
• Ability to select and adapt frameworks and methodologies for consistent, efficient delivery throughout the lifecycle
• Willingness to build knowledge of wider Strategy and Design capabilities, including business analysis, service design, product management, and experience design
• Ability to execute change management approaches and plans in collaboration with sponsors, users, and project teams
• Ability to create and implement action plans to prepare for changes before go-live, gather feedback, improve change plans, and assess and mitigate risks
• Ability to systematically identify and monitor risks and issues, plan responses, and implement them
• Ability to identify, analyse, and communicate with stakeholders through appropriate channels, taking account of their influence and interests
• Comfort offering alternatives to stakeholders
• Ability to support business decision-making and capture and share technical and business information
• Desirable: experience applying behavioural insights to public sector work
• If successful, willingness to undertake SC clearance

Responsibilities

• Deliver strategically significant client engagements across our public sector portfolio
• Design, shape, and deliver approaches to strategy development and change
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend options in collaboration with client partners and delivery teams
• Engage clients and stakeholders at different levels, tailor communication to their needs, and build relationships
• Work with multidisciplinary teams on digital transformation programmes, including product, delivery, User Centred Design, and technical roles
• Prepare businesses for project changes and bridge project teams and business users so activities are planned and completed to implement agreed changes and realise benefits
• Translate business drivers, goals, and constraints into business outcomes and define capabilities that enable organisational change
• Support Strategy and Change Leads to design and implement change approaches and lead business change activities
• Advise and support our teams and clients in shaping and delivering transformation initiatives across areas such as cost reduction, workforce transformation, new operating models, enterprise agility, continuous improvement, customer and user experience strategy, business change communications and enablement, and AI and data transformation
• Support the creation of business cases and proposals for change
• Identify and classify stakeholders, include them in engagement plans, and lead engagement by developing communications materials
• Define and update business readiness criteria and track adoption, reporting progress to senior stakeholders
• Apply strategy frameworks in the client context and champion best practices, advising team members and our Strategy and Design community
• Assess stakeholder impacts and support adoption of change
• Identify business opportunities, raise them with delivery and account teams, and contribute strategy and change responses to bids and proposals
• Promote integration of our Strategy and Change practice across client work
• Contribute tools, templates, and training to our Advisory and Change practice

Technologies

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We are a public sector technology consultancy focused on using technology to improve society and create positive outcomes through design-led work on critical services. Our Senior Strategy and Change Practitioners work with multidisciplinary teams and clients to deliver lasting, valuable change. We value strong delivery, leadership, subject matter expertise, and a clear vision for effective change. We assess delivery through public-service outcomes, adoption, relevant measures such as data, metrics, KPIs or service standards, and performance aligned with DDaT and SFIA grades, including peer feedback.

We offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays, flexible working hours, flexible parental leave, part-time remote working, paid counselling, and financial and legal advice. Our flexible benefits platform includes a Smart Tech scheme, a Cycle to Work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance that can be used for a healthcare cash plan or pension plan. Employees can also join our optional social and wellbeing events calendar.

last updated 43 week of 2026