Digital Change Lead, OF LORDS

Job Overview

We are looking for a Digital Change Lead to join the Journal Office in the House of Lords. Internally, this position is the Digital Procedural Services Manager. The role will support sittings of the Chamber and Committees, ensuring digital systems are in place and requirements are clearly understood.

You will shape and be part of the ongoing digital innovation, ensuring development, delivery and maintenance of the systems that support the core work of Parliament. You’ll support implementation of new technologies, embed process change, advocate for and design the vision of the digital future of the House of Lords. Hybrid working: three days from home, two days on-site at Parliament.

• Jointly develop and implement a strategy with the Head of Digital Procedural Services to support uninterrupted delivery of Lords digital priorities.
• Develop spending proposals and related project documentation and advise and support governance boards and steering groups.
• Represent the House of Lords Administration in meetings with the Parliamentary Digital Service to advocate for House of Lords requirements, establish tactical priorities, propose solutions and alternatives to resolve issues and ensure robust communication.
• Ensure that development work is appropriately prioritised and delivered in line with the Administration’s overall digital objectives.
• Develop and deliver solutions and alternatives to issues presented by business system failures on a tactical basis, often in a time‑critical environment.
• Develop spending proposals and related project documentation and advise and support governance boards and steering groups.

• Excellent IT skills and a strong understanding of the transformative potential of digital to deliver customer satisfaction.
• Experience with change management models and ability to develop and deliver a strategy to maintain services when implementing changes, managing risks and impacts.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain internal relationships and networks built on honesty, credibility and respect, upholding equality, inclusion and diversity values.

• Suitable digital project/programme management and/or business change qualifications such as PRINCE2, MSP or ITIL.
• Experience operating within a project/programme development environment.
• Appreciation of the broad parliamentary context.
• Experience developing Python scripts and/or working with large language models.

• 30 days annual leave (increasing to 35 after one year of service).
• Generous pension scheme.
• Parliamentary health and wellbeing programme.
• The opportunity to witness history in the making.

The House of Lords is the second chamber of the UK parliament. It is independent from and complements the work of the House of Commons to make laws, check and challenge the actions of the government, and investigate public policy.

Please complete your online application by 23:55pm on Wednesday 21st January 2026. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application process, please contact us.

Job offers are standardly offered at the minimum of the salary range.