Engagement Lead - Temporary

Change and Engagement Lead - Temporary (up to 24 months)

Salary: £34,893 to £41,050 (dependent on experience)
Contract type:
Temporary:
Fixed Term Contract or Secondment

Hours:

Full-Time

Location:

Poole, Dorset, England
Location description:
Hybrid between home and Poole - requirement to work in the office as needed by the role.
Closing Date: 01-02-2026
Reference: 21150

Your Role

Are you an experienced change and engagement professional who thrives in complex transformation environments?

We’re looking for a confident and capable individual to join the team for 24 months, supporting the RNLI’s Digital Transformation Programme. Reporting to the Change Manager, you’ll make sure our people are informed, involved, and feel confident as we evolve our ways of working, tools, and processes.  

We’re looking for someone who can hit the ground running, bringing proven experience of driving and enabling change across complex projects. You’ll work closely with project managers, business and workstream leads across Communications, Training and User Experience to turn ideas and plans into meaningful, people-centred change.  

About You

You’ll be a confident communicator and relationship builder, with a strong track record of delivering change and engagement activity in complex environments. You’ll recognise that our people are at the heart of our transformation and will know how to help them adapt and embrace change with confidence.

You’ll be proactive, organised and resilient, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and influence at all levels.

We’re looking for someone who can:

- Lead stakeholder engagement and change planning across multiple projects.
- Assess and manage change impacts, readiness and resistance.
- Develop and deliver engagement strategies that help key stakeholders understand, support and champion change.
- Build change toolkits to help stakeholders lead and manage change within their teams.
- Identify when specialist support is needed.
- Collaborate with project managers to integrate change into delivery plans.
- Utilise change insights to support, shape and execute communication plans, working with the Communications Lead to ensure programme level alignment.
- Champion change capability and support training design and delivery, working with the Training Lead to ensure programme level alignment.  

Essential

Experience:

- Significant experience in change and engagement roles within large-scale transformation programmes with a practical grasp of recognised change management approaches (e.g. ADKAR, Kotter).

- Experience of bringing together diverse teams and navigating differing priorities to achieve common outcomes.
- Strong understanding of project and programme environments.

Desirable

Experience:

- Experience delivering Change and Engagement activity for HR, people or workforce related system implementations, preferably Workday, would be an advantage.

Desirable

Qualifications:

- Change Management certification (e.g. PROSCI, APMG).
- Project or Programme Management qualification (e.g. APM PMQ, MSP).

If you’d like to help the RNLI and its people embrace change that will make saving lives at sea easier and simpler, we’d love to hear from you.

Safeguarding

The RNLI is committed to safeguarding, protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role.

(England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland;
Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland;
Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).

Diversity at the RNLI

Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable) and helping us work towards Our Vision:
To save Every One