Senior Management – Change Enablement Project Office

Location: Dublin
Contract: Temporary

About the Role

Our client is currently going through a significant period of organisational change and is seeking an experienced Senior Management to establish and lead a Change Enablement Project Office (CEPO).

This is a senior role responsible for creating the governance, reporting, change management and programme oversight structures required to successfully deliver multiple major organisational change initiatives.

Working closely with senior leadership, internal teams and external partners, you will provide centralised coordination, governance and delivery assurance across a portfolio of strategic change programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and operationalise the Change Enablement Project Office, including its governance framework, operating model, standards and processes.
• Develop and maintain an integrated view of major organisational change initiatives, including milestones, risks, dependencies, benefits and organisational impacts.
• Produce executive dashboards, reports and management information to support senior leadership decision-making.
• Ensure alignment and consistency across multiple change and transformation workstreams.
• Develop and implement change management, change readiness, stakeholder engagement and benefits realisation approaches.
• Establish effective risk, dependency, escalation and assurance processes.
• Monitor programme performance and organisational readiness, identifying issues and recommending corrective actions.
• Build strong working relationships across HR, Finance, IT, Facilities, Communications, Strategy and other internal functions.
• Support the development of sustainable organisational change capabilities.
• Ensure change frameworks, processes and knowledge are successfully transitioned into business-as-usual operations.
• Act as a trusted adviser to senior leadership on programme governance, portfolio management and organisational change.

Key Deliverables

The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing:

• A comprehensive change management methodology.
• A robust change governance framework.
• Programme risk, dependency and escalation management processes.
• Integrated executive reporting and portfolio dashboards.
• Change readiness and benefits tracking mechanisms.
• Effective governance and assurance arrangements across major change initiatives.

About You

We are looking for a highly experienced senior professional with a strong background in organisational change, transformation and programme management.

You will have:

• A Level 8 qualification in a relevant discipline.
• Minimum 7 years' experience leading complex change programmes or transformation initiatives.
• Experience establishing and developing PMO, programme governance or transformation office capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at all levels.
• Experience producing integrated leadership reporting and developing change metrics and insights.
• Strong experience in risk, dependency and benefits realisation management.
• Excellent analytical, organisational and decision-making skills.
• The ability to work confidently with senior leadership and multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Desirable

• Level 9 qualification in Organisation Development or a related discipline.
• Recognised change management qualification such as Prosci ADKAR or APMG Change Management.
• Project management qualification such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or Agile certification.
• Experience within the public sector, regulatory or semi-state environment.

What We Are Looking For

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Programme Manager, Transformation Lead, Change Director, Organisational Change Manager or PMO Lead who is confident operating at senior leadership level and has experience establishing governance and delivering complex organisational change.

If you have the experience and expertise to build and lead a change function through a significant period of transformation, we would be interested in hearing from you.