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Public Sector | 13-8-2026

Business Change & Adoption Lead

  • Hybrid | London
  • Competitive rates

Duration: 6 months 

Vetting: SC secuirty clearance will be required

Key responsibilities; but not limited to:

Change Strategy & Planning

  • Develop and maintain the Digital Wing Change and Adoption Strategy
  • Define the organisational change approach for each programme phase
  • Ensure change activities are aligned to programme outcomes and benefits
  • Identify organisational impacts and readiness requirements

Stakeholder Engagement

  • Develop and maintain stakeholder maps and influence strategies
  • Establish relationships with key stakeholder communities across FCDO
  • Facilitate workshops, engagement sessions, and user forums
  • Ensure end-user voices are represented throughout delivery

Culture & Behaviour Change

  • Define target behaviours required to support the future operating model
  • Develop interventions that promote adoption of new ways of working
  • Support leadership teams in modelling desired behaviours
  • Identify cultural barriers and opportunities to accelerate adoption

User Adoption & Readiness

  • Develop user adoption plans for each delivery phase
  • Assess organisational readiness for change
  • Coordinate training, onboarding and transition activities
  • Monitor adoption levels and user sentiment

Benefits Realisation

  • Define behavioural and organisational benefits measures
  • Support development of the programme Benefits Framework
  • Track and report adoption and benefits realisation
  • Ensure benefits are embedded into business-as-usual operations

Governance & Reporting

  • Provide change and adoption reporting to the Programme Board and Steering Group
  • Identify change-related risks, issues and dependencies
  • Maintain change management artefacts and plans
  • Support governance decision-making through stakeholder insights

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