Business Change Manager (1 Year FTC)

Location: Dartington House, Little Clarendon Street, Oxford

The University of Oxford is a stimulating work environment with an international reputation as a world-class centre of excellence. Our research addresses global challenges, from reducing carbon emissions to developing vaccines during pandemics.

We have an exciting opportunity to join Digital & IT Services as a Business Change Manager.

Digital & IT Services provides the robust, reliable and high-performing digital services that support teaching, learning, research and administration across the University. We value collaboration, recognise each other's contributions, and foster an inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong.

What We Offer

As an employer, we are committed to employee wellbeing and offer an excellent range of benefits, including:

• An excellent contributory pension scheme
• 38 days of annual leave
• Comprehensive childcare services
• Family leave schemes
• Cycle loan scheme
• Discounted bus travel and season ticket loans
• Membership of a variety of social and sports clubs

This role also offers the opportunity for hybrid working.

About the Role

This role sits within the Change Practice in the Programme & Projects Delivery Group (PPDG) and will support HALO, Oxford's transformational Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programme.

Working within the HALO Change and Communications team, you will support the transition from the University's current CRM to HALO and help enable a shared target operating model across fundraising, marketing and events services.

A key focus will be supporting Oxford's colleges through significant organisational and operational change. With all 26 colleges expected to transition from DARS to HALO products, you will help build organisational readiness, stakeholder engagement and adoption planning across a complex and highly autonomous environment.

Working with senior leaders, operational teams and college representatives, you will support changes to processes, roles, technologies and ways of working, helping colleges prepare for successful adoption of HALO.

About You

You will be a resilient, pragmatic and credible change professional who is comfortable working in complex environments, managing ambiguity and building trusted relationships with diverse stakeholders. You will combine strategic stakeholder engagement with practical change coordination to enable successful change through partnership.

You will have proven experience as a Business Change Manager on complex projects involving multiple stakeholder groups. This is a consultative role focused on enabling, coordinating and preparing others for change rather than delivering change directly within individual colleges. You will provide change expertise, guidance, tools, templates and best practice, while colleges remain responsible for implementing local change and managing local impacts.

Experience of working within higher education or a similar complex, non-commercial organisation is desirable, as is an understanding of the University's culture and governance, but neither is essential.

Application Process

Please upload a covering letter/supporting statement, CV, and details of two referees as part of your online application.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 29 July 2026.

Interviews will take place face to face between 5 and 7 August 2026.

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