Job Title
Head of Change
Directorate
HMPPS Change Directorate
Band
11
Job Description
2657-Head-of-Change-JD-v1.0.pdf
Reference point
Overview of Job
The Change Portfolio team is located within the HMPPS Change Directorate and
is responsible for overseeing change across HMPPS. The team has been
developed as a single function with two teams - one focused on providing
services to the Portfolio (oversight) and Future Programme (direct service
provision)
The team is responsible for the portfolio management of all major change in
HMPPS and supports the management of the Change Portfolio Board as the
primary point of internal governance for oversight of change.
The Change Portfolio team works closely with MoJ functions and programme
leads to ensure a complete picture of change impacting HMPPS is understood;
that this change can be triaged and prioritised; and that this change can
effectively be delivered.
The Change Portfolio team
• Provide oversight, assurance and reporting of major change
programme within the HMPPS Change Portfolio. Work with the
Portfolio Board to intervene where appropriate to tackle emerging,
complex issues that place programme delivery in jeopardy.
• Provide direct support, resource and advice to future individual
programmes that fall below the line of GMPP programme delivery.
• Protect the organisation from Change Overload
Summary
The Head of Change will work collaboratively with the Head of Change Delivery
to support the Deputy Director, Change Delivery and Change Portfolio Office to
deliver the following:
• Provide high level oversight of all major change in HMPPS; Gatekeep
and prioritise change activity and support frontline services in the
delivery of change initiatives and associated business benefits.
• Ensure all proposed change supports the ambitions of the HMPPS
strategy; will manage the level of demand change is placing on the
operational workforce.
• Provide oversight of major HMPPS change programmes, including
those initiated in the digital, data and technological space, and ensure
the risks, issues and benefits of those programmes are robustly
managed. These duties will be delivered in the management of HMPPS’
PMO resource and the Change Portfolio Board.
• Determining what level of change HMPPS can deliver at any one time,
support in the critical analysis of whether change should happen and
can be supported and protect frontline services from any
unmanageable or unplanned for change.
• Oversea the change delivery resource in all of the HMPPS areas and
ensure change that has been approved can be effectively delivered in
frontline services.
• Provide portfolio governance to all change programmes in HMPPS,
including assurance, reporting directly into the Change Portfolio Board.
• Provide strategic advice and direction across HMPPS relating to
complex organizational change. They will be managing a large team
including direct and matrix managed resource and engage with senior
stakeholders.
• Make decisions on behalf of HMPPS to ensure individual change
projects are effectively delivered and apply judgement to balance the
interdependencies between programmes, making sure they are in line
with HMPPS strategic priorities. This includes mapping change projects
in the functional leadership space and working with leaders in those
areas to gain an understanding of the impact of their projects.
• Assimilate complex and highly sensitive information to assess the
change management capacity across HMPPS and will provide advice to
senior officials on the timing and speed of any change delivery
proposals.
• Manage a large team including direct and matrix managed resource
and engage with senior stakeholders.
Specifically, the Head of Change will lead, develop, embed and oversee the
following:
• Provide project and programme resource to future programmes that
fall below the line of GMPP programme delivery.
• Provide direct services to HMPPS GMPP, legacy and smaller projects
(not provided by MoJ PDF)
• Provide assurance and reporting of programme delivery to government
standards and intervene to tackle emerging, complex issues that put
programme delivery in jeopardy.
• provide accountability and leadership for the whole of the HMPPS
change function, including the prison reform portfolio, the flexible
resourcing pool and the assurance teams for all Change activity. The
post holder will be expected to lead in raising the maturity of the
project and portfolio management and lead in best practice across the
whole of HMPPS.
• Protect the organisation from Change Overload and controls to
monitor and manage the health of the portfolio.
The post holder will need to lead a large, geographically spread team and will be
responsible for the development and delivery of strategies to support the
operational business to deliver all change activities, whilst also holding the
delivery programmes to account.
The post holder reports to the Deputy Director of HMPPS Change Directorate
and will manage a large team.
This post is non-operational.
Responsibilities, Activities
This Job Summary is an addendum to the HQ Job Description for the Head of
and Duties
Change: 2657-Head-of-Change-JD-v1.0.pdf
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities,
activities, and duties:
• To lead the Future Programme and Portfolio Management and
Development functions, driving high performance and delivering to a
high standard and increasing agency capacity.
• Ensure that all change is aligned to strategic outcomes and therefore
support work to protect benefits/strategic outcomes.
• Managing within the delegated budget, for both staff and non-staff
costs, making effective decisions to support delivery.
• Lead, shape and enhance the HMPPS approach to organizational
change, to maximise engagement and ownership of delivery.
• Build overall knowledge and capability of programme management
throughout HMPPS.
• Provide advice and support to programme directors and SROs to
effectively deliver their programmes.
• Create and develop a gateway system, working with functional leads
and the agency board to enable change programmes to be correctly
assured before being implemented.
• Overall responsibility for resource management for the portfolio,
including management of a flexible resourcing pool which supports the
delivery of programmes. This includes ensuring any business cases
demonstrate both investment and benefits and are approved at the
appropriate levels. This includes financial approvals and ensuring this is
managed within a delegated budget.
• Take a leading role with stakeholder management which supports
organizational change, assessing levels of engagement in key
stakeholders and actively managing the relationships.
• Establish robust governance to ensure the Director led change board is
effective in managing change and holding programmes to account.
Defining the separation between policy creation and change
management and working with colleagues to police that line.
• Develop a process for evaluating change, understanding if benefits
have been realised and learning lessons from the implementation of
the change. Lead on feeding this back through the agency board to the
whole of HMPPS.
• Chairing team meetings, and attending board meetings, including
agency board meetings, to ensure visibility and engagement with the
agency senior team on the development and implementation of
change.
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and
is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept
reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be
necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job
Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job
holder.
Behaviours
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
Strengths
NB: The below are for guidance only. It is advised strengths are chosen locally,
recommended 4-8.
Ability
Good written and oral communication skills.
Experience
• Excellent leadership and experience of leading a team coupled with an
ability to think strategically and to work with others to implement
plans.
• Understand the management structures and culture of the relevant
areas.
• Able to broker relationships with stakeholders within and outside the
project or programme.
• Able to negotiate and influence stakeholders within and outside the
project, programme and portfolio.
• Experience of liaising and working with a diverse set of stakeholders,
including senior members of staff.
• Experience of applying project management disciplines.
• Experience of leading a programme function.
• Senior level experience of facilitating and embedding organisational
change.
Technical
Project Delivery Profession Skills and Competencies:
• Managing project lifecycles
• Governance and assurance
• Project Management - PLP, MPLA and any other relevant
development.
Minimum Eligibility
Please do not alter this box.
• All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking
up post.
• All external candidates are subject to 6 months’ probation. Internal
candidates are subject to probation if they have not already served a
probationary period within HMPPS.
• All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group
or organisation which HMPPS consider to be racist.
Hours of Work (Unsocial
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Hours) Allowances
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