Transition Implementation Lead

Transition Implementation Lead

£75,000 per annum

Bedford

12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Hybrid Working

Ready to make a real difference? Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as our Transition Implementation Lead. This is your chance to play a meaningful role in helping people across the UK build stronger financial futures and to do it as part of a supportive, energetic team.

Why This Role Matters

Money Guiders is a MaPS Service that helps organisations and practitioners build the skills, knowledge and confidence to provide effective money guidance. Following a successful pilot, Money Guiders is now scaling significantly, and as part of this, transitioning to a new managed learning service. This will bring together the platform, data, content, processes and support arrangements needed to deliver as an integrated, operational service.

This role will lead and own the integrated implementation of the Money Guiders transition plan, bringing together key elements of the digital transition including configuration, data migration, testing and operational readiness to deliver a controlled transition into live service.

You’ll join at a critical stage in the transition and will need to demonstrate strong leadership from the outset. You’ll be expected to hit the ground running, quickly establish a clear grasp of delivery priorities and dependencies, and bring teams together to maintain momentum and drive implementation forward.

Own cross-workstream implementation readiness, securing resource commitments, resolving dependencies and driving delivery through cutover, early-life support and operational handover. Exercise judgement where competing priorities, resource constraints or implementation risks threaten delivery, resolving issues within agreed authority and escalating decisions with clear recommendations.

Work alongside the Programme Manager and portfolio team within established governance arrangements. The Programme Manager owns programme governance, planning and risk across the wider change programme; this role provides the integrated implementation and readiness view into that governance. Specialist leads retain accountability for their technical deliverables; this role is accountable for ensuring those contributions come together into a coherent, operationally ready service.

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You’ll join a team that’s passionate, collaborative, and driven by the belief that financial confidence should be something everyone can access.

• Lead delivery of integrated transition - translating the agreed transition plan into coordinated workstream commitments, sequencing, dependencies and hand-offs, alongside suppliers and specialist leads, with particular focus on the dependencies and hand-offs between configuration, data migration and testing.
• Secure and manage cross-functional resource commitments with functional managers and suppliers, ensuring the necessary skills, capacity and inputs are available at critical delivery points. Negotiate competing priorities and resolve gaps within agreed authority, escalating constraints that threaten implementation outcomes.
• Drive resolution of cross-workstream barriers, bringing together business, technical and supplier leads to assess options, agree action and follow through on delivery. Challenge misaligned assumptions, unclear ownership or commitments that put the transition at risk.
• Own the integrated view of business and operational readiness, ensuring migration, testing, people, processes, content, exit from incumbent supplier, support arrangements and specialist assurance requirements are addressed together. Identify gaps and secure corrective action to protect service continuity and user experience.
• Provide the implementation and readiness assessment into programme governance, presenting a clear, evidence-based view of progress, dependencies, resource pressures and readiness risks, with practical recommendations and timely decisions within delegated authority. Work closely with the Programme Manager, who owns programme reporting and the RAID.
• Lead integrated cutover, early-life support and operational handover, ensuring workstream contributions are aligned, readiness evidence is complete and outstanding risks and actions have clear ownership. Make evidence-based recommendations to the designated decisionmakers on readiness to proceed and ensure receiving teams are equipped to take operational ownership.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

We keep things simple, fair, and transparent:

Step 1: Submit Your Application

Open: 09/11/2026 , Deadline: This is an ongoing vacancy we will stop applications once the role is filled

To apply, please submit the following documents:

• Your most up-to-date CV
• A cover letter (maximum 1,000 words). Please structure your cover letter in two parts:
• Part 1 – Motivation and fit

Explain why you are interested in this role and how your experience and values align with it.

• Part 2 – Essential Criteria

Using the five Essential Criteria as headings, provide concise examples that demonstrate your judgement, level of responsibility and impact.

Step 2: Telephone Interview

If your application is shortlisted, you will be invited to a telephone interview with one of our recruiters. This is an opportunity to:

• Discuss your experience in more detail
• Learn more about the role and our organisation
• Ask any questions you may have

Step 3: Final Stage Interview

Hosted - TBC

Successful candidates from the telephone interview will be invited to attend a remote interview over Microsoft Teams. This stage will include:

• A series of competency-based interview questions
• A presentation that you will prepare before the interview

Everything we do aligns with the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

About Us

MaPS is based in bright, modern offices in Bedford, and we’re here to help people across the UK feel more confident and informed about their money.

Our values guide how we work together:

• Caring – for colleagues and the communities we support
• Connecting – building supportive, positive relationships
• Transforming – creating impact that truly matters

We’re proud to foster an inclusive, welcoming culture. Our colleague networks include LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health and ethnicity groups — and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.