Growth, Mobilisation & Change Director

Enterprise Mobilisation & Change Strategy

• Define and lead the organisation's integrated mobilisation and change strategy.
• Set enterprise standards, delivery methodologies, quality expectations and governance frameworks for all programmes.
• Ensure a unified approach to portfolio oversight, resource prioritisation and strategic alignment.

Leadership of Complex, High -Risk Programmes

• risk programmes.
• workstream delivery environments.
• Ensure delivery outcomes are achieved with pace, predictability and exceptional operational readiness.

Functional Leadership & People Management

• performing function.
• Establish consistent standards across planning, reporting, risk management, documentation and delivery assurance.
• Build a culture of excellence, accountability and continuous improvement across all delivery disciplines.

Executive Governance, Portfolio Alignment & Assurance

• Oversee project governance, reporting, methods and standards, ensuring an enterprise-wide view of risks, dependencies, benefits and delivery confidence.
• Lead demand and supply planning, providing insight on pipeline, resourcing requirements, capacity constraints and programme sequencing.
• driven, allowing the organisation to pace and prioritise activity effectively

Oversee integration of change management into all mobilisations

• Ensure organisational change planning, stakeholder engagement, communications and business readiness activities are embedded in every mobilisation.
• Identify and mitigate change impacts to minimise operational disruption.

Risk, governance and stakeholder leadership

• Establish and chair mobilisation governance forums, ensuring decisions, risks, dependencies and mitigations are managed effectively.
• Provide confident, transparent reporting to executive stakeholders, clients and partners
• Ensure governance forums reflect accurate, robust, portfolio insights and resource forecasts to enable strong executive decision-making.

Drive continuous improvement and organisational learning

• Drive learning, standardisation and improvement across mobilisation, change and project support functions.
• Ensure lessons learned influence standards, methods, bid development and future mobilisation readiness.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

Essential:

• Significant experience operating at Director or senior programme leadership level, with accountability for large-scale, multi-site or nationally distributed mobilisation and transformation programmes
• Strong track record in programme/project delivery leadership, including multi-workstream coordination
• Experience shaping delivery strategy, frameworks and governance in organisations undergoing growth, transformation or regulatory scrutiny
• Deep understanding of organisational change management and business readiness principles
• Demonstrable ability to lead senior project professionals and embed consistent delivery standards
• Strong commercial awareness, with experience managing budgets, forecasts and cost controls

Desirable:

• Professional certifications (e.g., MSP, PMQ, Prince2, Prosci, Agile Change)
• Experience in public-sector mobilisation, outsourced service delivery, health, justice, or distributed operational environments

Individual Competencies

• Strategic leadership
• Change leadership and communication
• Governance & assurance mindset
• Analytical and problem-solving capability
• Stakeholder influence and relationship building
• Results-oriented and accountable
• Adaptability, resilience, and judgement
• High integrity and commitment to strong governance frameworks

Maximus Competencies

• Embraces Respect
• Partners Effectively
• Creates Innovative Solutions
• Focuses on the Customer
• Demonstrates Compassion
• Takes Responsibility & Acts with Integrity

Travel Requirements

• This role is remote but requires frequent UK travel to mobilisation sites, clients, partner locations and internal offices as needed

EEO Statement


• MAXIMUS is committed to developing, maintaining and supporting a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the recruitment process. We know that feeling included has a dramatic impact on personal wellbeing and are working to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment due to any personal characteristic. Advertisements for posts will include sufficiently clear and accurate information to enable potential applicants to assess their own suitability for the post. • We are a Disability Confident Leader, thanks to our commitment to the recruitment, retention and career development of people with disabilities and long-term conditions. The Disability Confident scheme includes a guaranteed interview for any applicant with a disability who meets the minimum requirements for a job. When you complete your job application you will find a question asking you if you would like to apply under the Disability Confident Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you feel that you have a disability and apply under this scheme, providing that you meet the essential criteria for the job, you will then be invited for interview. Your Guaranteed Interview application will only be shared with the hiring manager and the local resourcing team. • Where reasonable, MAXIMUS will review and consider adjustments for those applicants who express a requirement for them during the recruitment process.


Minimum Salary


£


98,500.00


Maximum Salary


£


120,000.00