Change Portfolio Manager

Turning Passion into Purpose. London South Bank University Group is entering an exciting phase of strategic transformation and is recruiting two Change Portfolio Managers to join its newly established Strategic Change Office.

The Strategic Change Office exists to help Executive teams make better strategic decisions. Rather than simply tracking projects, we work across the organisation to bring clarity to complex change, helping Programme Sponsors define outcomes, identify dependencies, quantify investment requirements and build confidence in delivery. We enable Executive teams to make informed decisions about investment, sequencing, prioritisation and organisational capacity.

Working across our strategic change programmes and projects, you will partner with Executive leaders, Sponsors and delivery teams to shape initiatives, facilitate workshops, challenge assumptions and ensure Executive Group has the evidence required to make confident investment and sequencing decisions.

You'll play a central role in developing an integrated portfolio view across the Group, identifying cross-organisational dependencies, assessing delivery confidence, supporting governance and, where required, providing hands-on programme leadership to strengthen delivery capability across major strategic initiatives.

About You:

We're looking for people who are equally comfortable operating strategically and tactically.

You'll understand that effective portfolio management starts with understanding the work itself. You'll be someone who enjoys bringing structure to ambiguity and is comfortable moving between Executive discussions, strategic planning workshops and programme delivery.

You'll have a strong track record of delivering complex change programmes or projects and be equally comfortable stepping back to shape portfolios, governance and Executive decision-making.

You'll know when to challenge, when to coach and when to lead.

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate experience in:

• Successfully delivering complex programmes and projects from initiation through to implementation.
• Working within Portfolio Management or Enterprise PMO environments.
• Facilitating workshops and bringing diverse stakeholder groups to consensus.
• Translating strategic objectives into deliverable programmes, projects and change initiatives.
• Identifying dependencies, sequencing, resource requirements, benefits and delivery risks across complex portfolios.
• Preparing Executive-level papers, dashboards and investment recommendations.
• Developing portfolio roadmaps, governance approaches and reporting that supports decision-making.

The ideal candidate will be degree educated (or possess equivalent professional experience) and demonstrate excellent analytical, facilitation and communication skills. Experience within Higher Education or similarly complex organisations would be advantageous but is not essential.

What You'll Be Doing

 Working alongside Executive leaders, Sponsors and colleagues across the Group, you will:

• Facilitate strategic workshops that mature initiatives from concept into investable propositions.
• Provide programme leadership and delivery support for strategically significant initiatives where additional capability is required.
• Develop integrated portfolio views across the University Group.
• Build dependency maps, sequencing roadmaps and portfolio delivery plans.
• Identify and challenge strategic risks, assumptions, constraints and opportunities.
• Support investment planning, resource forecasting and benefits realisation.
• Prepare Executive dashboards, Board papers and decision-support materials.

Benefits and How to Apply:

Full details on the range of benefits we offer can be found here.

For an informal conversation ahead of applying please feel free to contact the hiring manager for this position, Leon Reynolds (Head of Strategic Change Office), leon.reynolds@lsbu.ac.uk

The closing date for applications is Sunday 6 September 2026 at 23:59

Interviews will be held in person at LSBU’s Southwark campus on 15 September 2026.

If you have any questions related to your application, please email the recruitment team hrdsr@lsbu.ac.uk

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early, should we receive sufficient applications.

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