Business Change and Transformation Executive (KTP) (Fixed Term for 2 Years)

A Knowledge Transfer Partnership position with Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University in partnership with Enbarr Foundation CIC

Business Change & Transformation Executive at Enbarr Enterprises Group to include Enbarr Foundation CIC / Enbarr Recruitment & Training (Management KTP Associate)

24 month fixed-term post, based at Enbarr Enterprisespremises in Queensferry (with travel to John Summers site in Shotton), but employed by Liverpool John Moores University.

Starting salary - £25,000-30,500 p.a. dependent on experience with £4,000 personal development and training budget, as well as management and leadership training provided as part of the KTP.

Enbarr’s mission is to build prosperous communities through social and economic development across North Wales and the Mersey Dee region, including some of the most deprived areas in Wales according to the Welsh Indices of Multiple Deprivation. Enbarr Foundation CIC designs and delivers collaborative projects to enable some of the most vulnerable in the region to participate in employment. The Foundation is a strategic initiative seeking ambitious growth in social and economic regeneration projects to tackle long-standing disadvantage in a way which future-proofs a longer-term supply and demand of local skills in the region.

This is a great opportunity for a graduate who wishes to develop their career in change management, management sciences and organisational development, to project manage a change management and transformative Management Knowledge Transfer Partnership (mKTP). The project will focus on achieving a step change in the company business model, in leadership and operations, and to enable sustainable growth and enhanced organisational resilience. The Associate will be responsible for implementation of these change management strategies with the support of leading university academics.

Some of the experience and skills we are looking for are:

• A future business leader who will champion this business transformation project
• Ability to work in a self-directed manner, as part of a wider project team.
• Experience of managing the requirements of different stakeholder groups.
• Highly developed presentation and report-writing skills (spoken and written).
• Organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to work flexibly with academic and industrial partners.
• High degree of personal responsibility and appreciation of business ethics.
• Ability to effect organisational change through leadership, motivation and persuasion.
• Ability to quickly create and sustain trusted relations at different levels of an organisation or diverse groups of people and stakeholders.
• Aptitude for knowledge transfer / business innovation and/or people development / upskilling programmes.
• Aptitude for working in social enterprise or in social, environmental, economic development projects.
• Confident, showing integrity and a desire to learn, keen to work independently and as part of a wider team structure.

This project is a Management KTP (mKTP), a programme with a focus specifically on increasing effectiveness and improving results through better management practices via mutually beneficial, three-way collaborations between a graduate or post graduate (known as an Associate), a business and a university. This partnership received financial support from BEIS and the Welsh Government through the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) programme managed by Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation.

More on KTP here - https://ktn-uk.co.uk/programmes/knowledge-transfer-partnerships

Please note all of our vacancies will be closed to applications at midnight on the advertised closing date, unless otherwise stated.

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