Group Specialist – Strategic Organisational Change at Praesignis

Role Purpose

• The Group Specialist – Strategic Organisational Change is responsible for designing and implementing strategic HR product and service-related change initiatives across the business. The role applies HR and change management expertise to support organisational transformation across product design, process re-imagination, technology enablement, digitalisation, service delivery and people change.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Change Management

• Develop and implement integrated change management and communication strategies aligned to the HR Book of Work.
• Partner with business leaders, HR teams, Product Owners and stakeholders to drive successful organisational change.
• Design and deliver change solutions using communication, training, engagement, technology and process improvement initiatives.
• Measure change effectiveness and business impact, ensuring sustainable behavioural and mindset shifts.
• Coach stakeholders and build organisational change capability.
• Apply data, insights and best practices to continuously improve change strategies.

Delivery Management

• Leading the planning, prioritisation and implementation of people change initiatives.
• Conduct change readiness assessments and identify organisational impacts.
• Monitor change adoption, measure outcomes and manage change risks.
• Continuously improve change solutions based on performance insights.

 Finance, Risk & Governance

• Demonstrate business value and ROI of change initiatives.
• Manage change budgets and provide input into business cases.
• Ensure compliance with organisational governance, policies and regulatory standards.
• Identify and mitigate change risks while delivering initiatives on time and within budget.

People

• Coach and mentor leaders, Product Owners and peers on change management.
• Support frontline change teams as a subject matter expert.
• Conduct peer reviews and contribute to continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree (or studying towards completion) in Humanities, Commerce or a related field.

Experience Required

• 5–8 years' experience delivering organisational and people change initiatives.  
• Proven experience supporting Enterprise HR products and services across people, process and systems.
• Experience in digital business models and Agile transformations is advantageous.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and business partnering experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in organisational change management and HR.
• Proven experience designing and delivering strategic change communications.
• Strong analytical, diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
• Track record of delivering measurable business impact and sustainable behavioural change.

Preferred

• Agile mindset.
• Agile/Scrum certifications (Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner or SAFe SM/PO) are advantageous.
• Experience facilitating executive workshops, design thinking sessions and organisational transformation initiatives.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment while promoting collaboration, diversity and inclusion.