Change Partner - FTC

Change Partner (FTC for 24 months) - REC000101575

Location: Hybrid working maximum 2 days based from our Gourock head office and travel across our ports and vessels as required

Contract: Fixed Term Contract – 24 months, full time 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday

Salary: Circa £55k plus benefits and depending on skills and experience

Join us and help to transform how change happens at CalMac!

Reporting to the Strategic Change Lead, this is a key role at the heart of our transformation journey. As a Change Partner, you’ll support the delivery of our change activity while helping to build the capability needed across the business to make change happen.

You’ll design and deliver impactful change strategies that drive engagement, readiness, and adoption minimising resistance and ensuring lasting results. Working closely with delivery teams, you’ll also coach, mentor, and provide assurance that our approach to change is effective, practical, and aligned to our ambitions.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead on smaller scale change or support on complex change projects
• Support with the evolution of our change and benefits frameworks, tools, and training to embed best practice
• Develop and deliver change strategies and plans that support key initiatives and track benefits realisation
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of change frameworks, tools, and training to maintain best practice
• Support assurance of third-party change plans to ensure they are robust, achievable, and benefits-led
• Help build and sustain a network of change leads to drive and embed new ways of working across CalMac
• Act as a trusted partner, providing expert advice, coaching, and guidance to stakeholders at all levels

About you

You’ll be an experienced and credible change professional with experience in change management methodologies, with the ability to develop approaches that makes complex change easy to understand for all stakeholders and keeps them engaged throughout.

What you’ll bring as a Change Partner:

• A proven track record of supporting complex change and delivering and embedding sustainable business outcomes
• Strong understanding of how people experience change, with a flexible, people-centred approach
• Change Management certification (e.g. APMG, PROSCI) and MSP Practitioner (both desirable)
• Experience in digital transformation and benefits realisation (advantageous)
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage, motivate, and negotiate effectively with stakeholders at all levels throughout the change journey
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to clearly present complex information
• A customer service ethos with a passion and commitment to high standards and quality delivery across teams and partners
• Resilience and adaptability to thrive in a changing environment and deliver Proven ability to deliver tasks to time, budget and quality criteria.
• Flexibility to travel across the CalMac network, which will be project dependent and may include overnight stays

Why join CalMac?

This is an exciting time to join CalMac. With the award of the 10-year CHFS3 contract, we have the stability and investment to continue delivering essential services to Scotland’s communities.

You’ll be part of a business that is modernising, evolving, and investing in its future offering you the chance to make a visible, lasting impact in a role with real autonomy.

Apply now and play a key role in shaping the future of change at CalMac.

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, then what are you waiting for? Apply today and one of the team will be in touch!

Package

• Competitive salary • Very generous pension• Hybrid Working • Excellent training, development, and career progression • 37 days annual leave (pro-rata) • Staff travel pass for yourself, spouse/partner, and dependents

Please note, we may close this vacancy early for external applicants if we receive the required quality or quantity of applications. No agencies please