Training and Adoption Manager

If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given.

Role: Training and Adoption Manager   

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Starting from £50,060p.a (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:  

The Training and Adoption Manager is responsible for leading the successful change, adoption, and embedding of digital services across a defined business area. This role ensures that new digital products, services, and ways of working are effectively implemented, adopted, and sustained. Acting as a critical bridge between delivery teams and business stakeholders, the Training and Adoption Manager translates technical and project outcomes into business value and operational readiness.

Each Training and Adoption Manager is aligned to a specialist area: Operations, Science, Infrastructure, Enabling and Corporate Functions, Shared Functions, or Engineering. This role sits within the Service Transition team, ensuring that digital services are not only delivered effectively but also adopted and embedded into business-as-usual operations.  

Key Accountabilities: 

•  Change Planning and Delivery: Accountable for planning and leading business change activities to ensure successful adoption of digital solutions in the assigned area.  

• Stakeholder Engagement: Accountable for identifying, engaging, and influencing stakeholders to enable a shared understanding of change impacts, readiness, and outcomes.  

• Training and Capability Building: Accountable for assessing training needs, developing training strategies, and ensuring delivery of effective learning interventions to build user capability and confidence.  

• Adoption and Benefits Realisation: Accountable for driving adoption of new services, systems, or processes and supporting business areas to realise intended benefits.  

• Support and Sustainment: Accountable for providing post-implementation support, reinforcing new behaviours, and embedding changes into business-as-usual operations.  

• Risk and Issue Management: Accountable for identifying and managing business readiness risks and resistance related to digital change.  

• Alignment and Integration: Accountable for ensuring change initiatives align with broader digital strategies and are coordinated with other transformation efforts.  

• Health and Safety: Accountable for maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and being a great team player. 

Essential Criteria: 

•  Understanding of change governance, information assurance, and data protection requirements. 

• Degree or equivalent experience in change management, business transformation etc.   

• Demonstrable experience leading business change initiatives in digital or technology-enabled contexts.  

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influence.   

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and coordination skills.  

• Able to navigate complex change landscapes.  

• Willing to travel.   

Work hard, be rewarded:

We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including:

• 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
  

All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role.  

Next steps:

Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

Important things you need to know:

• We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. 
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.

Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.