Urgent Hire|AI Change Lead | Contract

Duration: Initial 9 Months
Location: Hybrid working in the London office
Rate: £300 per day
Engagement: Inside IR35

AI Change Lead
Job Purpose:
As the AI Change Lead, you will drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI technologies by leading strategic change initiatives, fostering AI fluency, and embedding AI-enabled behaviours across the organisation. This role is pivotal in ensuring that employees are equipped, engaged, and empowered to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, innovation, and decision-making in line with our ambition to become AI-enabled by 2028. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, creative agility, and deep understanding of AI’s impact on people, processes, and culture.

Major Accountabilities:

 
  • Lead and execute change management strategies to enhance AI Fluency across, ensuring alignment with AI Strategy and culture.
  • Design and deliver AI fluency programmes tailored to different audiences (leaders, managers, general users), including KPIs and success measures.
  • Build change management learning interventions as needed to help leaders prepare teams to continually adopt changes to ways of working resulting from ongoing integration of AI technologies
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. DDIT and unit learning teams) to ensure seamless adoption and utilization of AI technologies.
  • Coach senior leaders to role-model AI behaviours and support their teams through transitions.
  • Build and activate communities of practice (e.g. AI champions network) to support the diffusion of AI technologies across the organisation.
  • Translate complex AI concepts into accessible narratives through storytelling, campaigns, and engagement events.
  • Champion a culture of experimentation, curiosity, and responsible AI use.
  • Curate and amplify internal success stories, use cases, and impact metrics to build trust and momentum.
  • Monitor adoption metrics, feedback loops, and behavioural indicators to refine change strategies.

Skills & Qualifications
You should have extensive experience in change management. You should be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and have strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
 
  • Proven experience in change management, organisational development, or transformation leadership (8+ years).
  • Strong understanding of GenAI tools (e.g. ChatGPT and Copilot)
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience designing and delivering training, workshops, and behavioural change programmes.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in fast-paced environments.