DV Cleared Business Change

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Active DV Clearance.
• Experience delivering business change within large-scale transformation or technology programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and management skills, including working with senior leadership teams.
• Proven ability to analyse complex business challenges and develop practical, innovative solutions.
• Experience preparing organisations and users for the adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Knowledge and practical application of business change and change management frameworks, tools, and techniques.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for different audiences.
• Strong facilitation skills, including leading workshops with a variety of stakeholder groups.
• Ability to build trusted relationships and influence decision-making at all levels.
• Experience within defence, national security, government, or highly regulated environments.
• APMG Change Management Practitioner certification.
• PROSCI Practitioner certification.
• MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) accreditation.
• Experience supporting digital transformation, service integration, operating model design, or organisational change initiatives.
• Consultancy experience gained within a client-facing environment.

Responsibilities:

• Support the delivery of complex business transformation and technology-enabled change programmes.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to understand business challenges, define solutions, and drive successful outcomes.
• Prepare and support business areas transitioning to new operating models, processes, and technologies.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, and requirements gathering activities.
• Develop and deliver communication, engagement, and change management plans.
• Produce high-quality project documentation, reports, impact assessments, and business change artefacts.
• Provide project management support on large-scale transformation programmes.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships across all levels of the organisation.
• Contribute to consultancy propositions, bids, business development activities, and thought leadership initiatives.
• Support the continuous development of business change methodologies and best practices.
• Deliver high-quality business change and transformation outcomes that meet client objectives.
• Support stakeholder adoption and the successful embedding of change within client organisations.
• Produce deliverables to agreed quality standards, timescales, and budgetary constraints.
• Provide strategic and operational change advice to clients and programme teams.
• Work collaboratively within client delivery teams and alongside consultant partners from other organisations.
• Contribute to research, innovation, and continuous improvement activities.

Technologies:

• Support
• Security

More:

We are looking for an experienced DV Cleared Business Change Consultant to join a high-profile transformation programme within a secure government and defence environment. This role is based in Cheltenham, with 3-4 days per week onsite, and offers an initial 12-month contract with strong extension potential at a rate of £60-£80 per hour depending on experience. You will play a key part in delivering complex, technology-enabled transformation initiatives that drive meaningful and lasting business change, working alongside clients and multidisciplinary delivery teams to help organisations adopt new ways of working, maximise technology investment benefits, and deliver strategic outcomes across major programmes. We are seeking someone with a proactive, consultative approach, strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, commercial awareness, and the resilience to operate effectively in challenging stakeholder environments.

last updated 37 week of 2026