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COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Montfort Care is a vibrant workplace with a supportive culture where collaboration and camaraderie thrive. Our teams are highly cooperative, and colleagues genuinely care for each other. We celebrate diversity and innovation, united by our three core values: Resonance, Ingenuity and Stronger Together.
Expect a dynamic and fast-paced environment, as we are in an exciting phase of growth. Success here requires adaptability, agility, and the ability to navigate complexity. Our people stay with us because they find a strong sense of purpose and community, enjoying the opportunity to make a tangible difference in people's lives.
We offer a flexible work environment that values the importance of personal and professional growth. With plenty of opportunities for continuous learning and development, Montfort Care is an ideal place for those who want to grow their careers while contributing to meaningful change.
Join us to be part of an amazing team that's dedicated to making a difference and having fun while doing that!
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Strategy & Growth team is an organisation-wide capability-building function for Montfort Care (MFC), partnering with leaders and teams to address the organisation's most complex and pressing challenges. It combines strategic thinking, transformation expertise and implementation to strengthen organisational capabilities and achieve sustainable impact.
The Assistant Director, Transformation leads organisation-wide transformation initiatives that improve service effectiveness, operational efficiency and client experience. Reporting to the Director, Strategy & Growth, the role has a strong focus on rethinking service delivery through digital means while ensuring that services remain accessible and inclusive for clients who may face barriers to digital adoption. The portfolio also includes non-digital aspects that enable digital service delivery, including service redesign, process improvement, operating model changes and new ways of working.
Working closely with the Director, Strategy & Growth, leadership, service leaders and corporate service functions, the Assistant Director identifies high-value digital transformation opportunities and leads initiatives from discovery and business case development through experimentation, implementation, adoption and benefits realisation. The role applies user-centred, agile and data-informed approaches to translate organisational and client needs into scalable solutions.
The Assistant Director, Transformation develops the internal capabilities required to sustain new ways of working. The role champions responsible experimentation, digital confidence and continuous improvement, ensuring that transformation strengthens outcomes for clients and employees without leaving digitally less-confident users behind.
This is a high-visibility role with frequent opportunities to engage and present to the Chief Executive Officer and leadership team. The Assistant Director must understand strategic intent, exercise sound judgement and translate broad direction into coherent priorities, practical action plans and measurable outcomes. The role offers an opportunity for a transformation practitioner to step into a wider organisational remit and make a significant contribution to Montfort Care's service and organisational outcomes.
Organisation Strategy Alignment and Transformation Planning
- Partner with leadership, service leaders, employees and clients to define the future of social service delivery and identify the operating models, capabilities and transformation priorities required to realise it.
- Define measurable outcomes and benefits for transformation initiatives, including improvements in client experience, service effectiveness, employee productivity, adoption, accessibility, efficiency and cost, and establish mechanisms to track benefits from baseline through implementation and scale-up.
- Lead research, horizon scanning and analysis of client needs, sector developments, emerging technologies and new service delivery models. Translate findings into clear opportunity statements and evidence-based recommendations for leadership consideration.
- Work with leadership to shape and prioritise a portfolio of digital and non-digital transformation initiatives based on strategic relevance, client and employee value, feasibility, inclusion, risk, resource requirements and expected benefits.
- Facilitating annual/ multi-year strategic planning cycles. Lead secretariat function to organize MFC's annual work plan; this includes pre-retreat planning, conduct of retreats, and organising of cascade briefs to middle managers and front liners.
Transformation Project Management
- Map out and track transformation project progress against MFC's strategic objectives to ensure alignment of transformation projects to broader organisational goals.
- Establish governance structure for identified transformation projects based on organisation priorities; e.g. project organisation, project charter, timelines, resources, and accountability.
- Engage stakeholders to build understanding of transformation objectives and drive ownership of transformation objectives by service pillars.
- Diagnose broad or ambiguous symptoms, frame clear problem statements and identify root causes through data analysis, user research and process mapping. Conceptualise and implement fit-for-purpose responses, which may include service redesign, digital solutions, process improvement, operating model or organisation structure changes, capability development, and leadership or culture interventions.
- Coach and guide Transformation team and Service Pillar Heads on transformation frameworks, methodologies, change management approaches and best practices. Support leadership in resolving organisation-wide structural, operational, or cultural barriers to transformation success.
- Together with Service Pillar Heads, Transformation team, Communications team, drive change management strategies to enable success of transformation projects.
- Track and manage transformation project progress and risks to ensure timely delivery of transformation milestones.
- Design and deliver a tiered digital capability programme that can be scaled across more than 400 employees, covering foundational digital literacy, role-specific skills and advanced capabilities for digital champions. Develop playbooks, communities of practice, coaching and practical learning interventions that build a digital-first culture while supporting employees with different levels of confidence and readiness.
Experimentation and scaling
- Lead research, experimentation and pilots for new ways of delivering services. Define hypotheses and success measures, test solutions with employees and clients, evaluate evidence and risks, and recommend whether initiatives should be stopped, refined or scaled.
Vendor Management
- Build and manage partnerships with technology providers, social service agencies, public-sector bodies, research institutions and other ecosystem partners or vendors to co-develop and deliver transformation initiatives. Establish clear outcomes, governance, responsibilities and performance measures for joint projects.
- Manage and track KPIs of vendors to ensure service delivered meet our contractual needs.
Funding Management
- Research relevant grants and funding opportunities, and develop use cases and applications that support digital and broader transformation initiatives. Manage funding commitments, budgets, milestones, reporting and benefit measures to ensure compliance and intended outcomes.
- Plan yearly departmental budget and be accountable for the expenditure of these funds in support of MFC organisational objectives.
People Management
- Lead and develop strategy and transformation teams to drive delivery of organisational objectives.
- Foster a culture of innovation in the team to meet social mission and objectives.
Risk and Compliance
- Understand IPC (Institute of Public Character) and charity organisations compliance and regulatory requirements and ensure adherence.
- Identify and manage transformation risks, including data protection, cybersecurity, accessibility, ethical use of technology, vendor dependency, service continuity and unintended exclusion of clients. Work with relevant corporate service functions and funders to ensure that initiatives meet applicable regulatory, security and governance requirements.
Others
- Responsibilities listed above are not exhaustive. From time to time, additional duties or projects may be assigned based on organisational needs.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree from a recognised institution of higher learning in business, information technology, information systems, engineering, social sciences, public policy, organisational development or a related discipline. An advanced degree in business administration, information technology or a related field is advantageous.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Change management certifications (e.g. Prosci) is advantageous but not mandatory.
- At least 7-10 years of progressive experience in management consulting, internal transformation, service design, digital transformation, innovation or major programme delivery, including demonstrated experience leading digital initiatives from problem de nition through implementation and adoption.
- Prior experience in a major technology company, digital consultancy or technology-enabled organisation, with responsibility for delivering digital products or initiatives for internal or external users.
- Experience in social sector, healthcare, or mission-driven organisations is advantageous. Candidates from other sectors with an interest in driving the change in the social service sector are encouraged to apply.
- 3-5 years of leading teams or major workstreams with a demonstrated ability to drive organisation-wide strategy and transformation projects. Hands-on experience in driving transformation planning, stakeholder engagement and governance.
- Experience working with data, KPI, OKRs, dashboarding for reporting for leadership teams. Experience in driving process redesign, operating model/ organisation structure, skilling strategy, leadership and culture initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives, establish priorities based on organisational needs and delivery capacity, and build alignment across service, corporate and technology stakeholders.
- Ability to lead concurrent initiatives using an agile, test-and-learn mindset while maintaining disciplined governance over scope, priorities, interdependencies, resources, risks and delivery commitments. The candidate must be able to adapt the approach when evidence or organisational needs change without allowing uncontrolled scope expansion.
- Strong analytical ability & problem-solving skills to identify critical areas for action in a data-informed manner.
- Executive presence and sound judgement to engage senior leadership, challenge assumptions constructively and in uence decisions, combined with the ability to explain complex transformation and digital concepts to frontline employees and non-technical stakeholders to build understanding and commitment.
Please note that your application will be sent to and reviewed by the direct employer - Montfort Care
