Senior Change Manager

Grade: K scp 39 £50,269 to scp 43 £54,495
Contract: Fixed Term, 12 Months
Role Requirements: A relevant degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
Interview date: TBC
For further information about this role, contact: nicky.connell@bolton.gov.uk

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The Role
£50,269 to £54,495 and pay award pending
Bolton Council is going through an exciting and unprecedented period of transformation over the next few years, and we’re looking for talented people with a broad range of change management experience to help us achieve our ambitions. The Senior Change Manager will play a key role in driving and delivering strategic change activity across the council, including ongoing development and implementation of our Transformation Strategy. This is a very varied and challenging role, and requires a systems thinking approach, coupled with solid experience of delivering complex change that has our citizens at its heart, ideally within the public sector. You’ll be part of a friendly team, taking a lead on specific change priorities, and working alongside a team of Senior Change Managers and other Change staff in the unit.

The postholder will also work with individual services to apply our transformation principles and support them to modernise, using analysis, process mapping, co-design and engagement approaches, with our customers at the centre. There will be lots of opportunities to influence and help shape what we do and how we do it.

The team will be undergoing a service redesign in 2026, to align capacity to priorities and demand, and as a result it’s possible that longer term opportunities may become available. This role is available as a 12-month fixed term contract or secondment.

About You
We’re looking for someone who can hit the ground running and quickly pick up some key pieces of work, so you’ll need significant experience of delivering and managing change projects and programmes, ideally taking a systems thinking approach. The successful candidate will be able to manage multiple, fast-paced and complex pieces of work simultaneously, and will have a focus on demonstrating improved outcomes, supported by a strong evidence base.

You need to be comfortable working with colleagues and partners at all levels, as well as elected members, and you must have strong leadership and influencing skills. The role could be a secondment opportunity for existing colleagues looking for the next step of your career.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Nicky Connell on 07392108213 during office hours. NO agencies.

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than 3 pages, evidencing your relevant knowledge and experience, as indicated in the person specification, by Sunday, 3rd May 2026.

About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

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