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SalaryEstablished in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds. We support more than 1.9 million members, with around $70 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.
Rest is known for its large membership base in the retail industry. Today, Rest’s members are diverse and span across many industries. Around 60 per cent of Rest’s members are women, half are younger than 30 years old, many work in part-time and casual jobs and around 600,000 live in regional Australia.
We're a super fund for people who believe in fairness and equality for all. We're focused on supporting all our members to grow their super while contributing to a more sustainable future.
Rest is a profit-to-member superannuation fund, meaning that all profits generated by Rest go back to our members. Rest is the recipient of numerous superannuation industry awards, against criteria such as investment performance, fees, and member services.
The REST Investments Team are undertaking a significant transformation journey. The Senior Change Manager, Investments is responsible for leading the Organisational Change Management Functions to deliver the IS&T roadmap which enables delivery of critical strategic projects as well as the optimisation and embedding of recently implemented systems and processes.
Job Description
The REST Investments Team are undertaking a significant transformation journey. The Senior Change Manager, Investments is responsible for leading the Organisational Change Management Functions to deliver the IS&T roadmap which enables delivery of critical strategic projects as well as the optimisation and embedding of recently implemented systems and processes.
The core responsibilities of the Senior Change Manager include:
- Apply a structured approach to organisational change management, ensuring articulation of scope, benefits and business outcomes of change required for the Investments organization.
- Drive the adoption of solutions and benefits realisation through the end-to-end design and product delivery lifecycle through delivery of change strategy and plans across the portfolio of changes.
- Take an active role with maturing the change practice within the Investments Division to ensure focus on people and successful transition to business as usual, working with Business Analysts to ensure requirements are clear and process maps are reflective of end-to-end business processes; project managers to ensure change activities are integrated in the schedule and Business Owners to ensure ownership and collaboration from early in the project lifecycle.
- Manage a small team to support implementation of change management plans, change management artefacts, communications, impact assessments and business readiness activities including process maps and working with the business teams to complete procedure documentation.
- Provide guidance to Investments Change Review Forum on change requests to ensure change is clearly understood and can be effectively prioritized, consider associated impacts to teams, change risks or issues, business resourcing requirements.
Qualifications
- A solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process; experience with Prosci ADKAR® Model, Lean Change, or alternative change model.
- Relevant tertiary or technical qualifications experience in a similar Change role
- Demonstarted change experience preferably within in a similar role in an Asset Owner implementing Investment capabilities and Tech Platforms.
- Demonstrated understanding of change management principles, methodologies, and tools and how to use these in an investment environment.
- Strong business acumen and understanding of organisational issues and challenges, resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere.
- Experience delivering change into senior investment stakeholders and able to work effectively with all levels in an organisation.
- Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others and be able to establish and maintain strong relationships.
- Previous experience conducting impact assessments for technical change projects.
- Demonstrated experience with Agile delivery and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA and Confluence) and within an Agile delivery environment.
- Excellent understanding of Microsoft environments, using Teams and SharePoint
- Experience facilitating workshops and small group sessions in an online environment.
Benefits
Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:
- Personal and professional development opportunities
- Flexible, hybrid working – work to suit your lifestyle (must be based in Australia)
- Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
- Meeting free breaks (Rest Stops)
- Income Protection Insurance
- Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours)
Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.
We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.
Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.
*Funds under management as at 30 June 2023. Rest is recognised as a by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.
Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier
