• Kenmore head office based, flexible working arrangements.
• Not for profit salary packaging up to $18,549 tax-free.
• Free parking, onsite cafe

Change Manager

Shape how change really lands.

At Churches of Christ, change is happening and our Change Manager will intentionally uplift how change is led, experienced and embedded across the business and is central to that ambition.

You will be a confident, pragmatic change professional who can shape the change approach, influence leaders, and deliver in environments where frameworks are still evolving.

We are not looking for a change manager who hides behind frameworks, we are looking for one who knows how to move people.

This is a hands‑on opportunity for someone who combines strong consulting capability with a bias for action. Someone who knows when to design artefacts, when to simplify, and when to say, “We don’t need that artefact here.”

We find that consultants who want to see change through to adoption, not just recommendation, really find their home here.

Your Opportunity

As part of a small change capability team, you will partner closely with project managers and business leaders to lead people readiness, adoption, and sustainment across multiple initiatives.

You will be excited to support a business feeling change fatigue and where empathy, clarity, and judgement matter as much as methodology. Success in this role means making change feel human, achievable, and worthwhile.

You will help lift the organisation’s overall change capability while directly supporting delivery by shaping how change is done, not just executing against templates.

What You Will Do

• Lead people‑centered change across concurrent initiatives, ensuring impacts are understood, adoption is planned for, and change sticks.
• Partner with Project Managers as a trusted change advisor, shaping approaches, advising on priorities, and supporting delivery under real‑world constraints.
• Engage stakeholders with empathy and credibility, eliciting what really matters to them and translating it into simple, meaningful change artefacts that can be easily socialised.
• Diagnose change impacts and business readiness, adapting your approach to meet the business where it is.
• Design and implement pragmatic communication and training approaches, from message shaping to delivery, with the flexibility to build or outsource where appropriate.
• Anticipate and respond to resistance and fatigue, helping leaders have honest, constructive change conversations.
• Support post‑go‑live transition, reinforcing new ways of working so teams feel confident and capable.
• Contribute to uplifting change capability across the organisation through practical, fit‑for‑purpose practices.

What This Role Is (and isn’t)

This role is:

• Hands‑on, pragmatic and delivery‑
• Focused on outcomes, adoption and capability, not just activity.
• Suited to experienced change practitioners who can operate without perfect frameworks.

This role is not:

• A purely strategic or advisory position.
• Highly resourced, with large support teams.
• A “template‑first” change environment.

What You Will Bring

• Significant experience leading the people side of change in complex environments, ideally across transformation programs.
• Strong capability in core change artefacts (e.g., impact assessments, stakeholder analysis, communication, and training plans) and the judgement to scale them appropriately.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust, influence diverse stakeholders, and explain change in clear, practical terms.
• Confidence navigating ambiguity, resistance and competing demands while maintaining momentum.
• Experience in process mapping, workflow analysis and identifying practical business improvements.
• Tertiary qualification in Business, IT, or a related discipline, with formal Change Management certification (e.g., PROSCI, ACMP).
• A resilient, analytical, and people‑centered mindset, grounded in outcomes rather than activity.

Who we are – Churches of Christ

Churches of Christ is one of Australia’s largest and most diverse not-for-profit organisations, delivering a range of care and community services across Residential Aged Care, Home Care and Retirement Living, Foster and Kinship Care and, Housing Support for over 140 years. 

We are guided by our values of Integrity, Compassion, Excellence and Courage, and we welcome everyone, of all backgrounds and faiths, as we foster a diverse and inclusive community for our people.

Why Join Our Team 

• Transformative leadership and a high performing team culture. 
• Opportunities for career development, stretch assignments and progression. 
• A growing national not-for-profit organisation with purpose and community impact. 
• Work in an inclusive, down to earth & welcoming culture. 
• 5 weeks annual leave
• Hybrid / flexible working arrangements to support your work life balance.
• Free on-site parking + on-site café with staff discount (at the Kenmore head office). 
• Not for profit salary packaging up to $18,549 which could be used for up to $15,900 (for common living expenses like rent, mortgage, school fees and many more) and up to $2,650 for meals and entertainment.