Senior Change Manager, 12 month FTC

We’ve been around since 1988, and today we’re one of Australia’s largest profit‑to‑member super funds.

That means everything we do is focused on delivering better outcomes for our members – not shareholders.

Closing date: 28th August 2026

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies 

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier 

At Rest, we help more than 2 million Australians to build a better financial future. With around $112 billion in funds under management, we focus on delivering strong long-term outcomes for our members — from their first job through to retirement*. Your best at Rest means focusing on what matters, being trusted to get on with it, and knowing your work genuinely makes a difference. That’s how we operate every day, guided by our values: Be Daring, Keep It Simple, Take Action and Have Grit.

Join us as a Senior Change Manager, where you’ll help bring our strategy to life. This is your opportunity to make a real contribution to the financial wellbeing of millions of Australians.

This is an opportunity to work on high-profile transformation initiatives across technology, operations, and business capability uplift, partnering with leaders, delivery teams, and stakeholders across the organisation to drive meaningful and lasting change.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Change Manager, you'll play a critical role in ensuring people are ready, willing, and able to adopt change.

You'll:

• Lead change management across strategic transformation initiatives and portfolios.
• Develop compelling change stories that connect business outcomes with employee and stakeholder impact.
• Partner closely with executives, delivery teams, and business leaders to build engagement, understanding, and commitment.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops, impact assessments, readiness activities, communications, and training initiatives.
• Embed within Agile delivery teams, working alongside Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and delivery squads to ensure people impacts are identified and addressed at the pace of delivery.
• Help strengthen and mature Rest's Organisational Change Management capability and practice. 

What we're looking for

You'll be a seasoned change professional who thrives in complex environments and enjoys influencing outcomes through collaboration.

You'll bring:

• Demonstrated experience delivering organisational change across both Waterfall and Agile environments, including Scrum.
• The ability to adapt traditional change approaches, impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, and readiness activities, to fast-moving, iterative delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with experience partnering with senior leaders and executives.
• Experience applying recognised change methodologies such as Prosci ADKAR®, Lean Change, or similar frameworks.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to translate complexity into simple, meaningful messages.
• A human-centred approach to change and a passion for helping people navigate transformation successfully. 

Why Rest?

At Rest, people are at the heart of everything we do. We embrace a culture built around our values:

• Have Grit
• Take Action
• Keep it Simple
• Be Daring 

You'll join a purpose-led organisation that invests in its people, values fresh thinking, and gives you the opportunity to make a genuine impact on the financial futures of millions of Australians.

• 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

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Demonstrated understanding of human-centred change management principles, methodologies, and tools and how to use them in a changing environment.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of organisational issues and challenges, resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere.
• Experience delivering change with senior 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.

.What you'll find at Rest

• Hybrid working
• 5 Rest Days (wellbeing days) each year in addition to annual leave
• 22 weeks paid parental leave (gender neutral)
• Continued super contributions during parental leave
• Learning and development opportunities, including AI & Data Academy, leadership programs, LinkedIn Learning, study assistance and professional memberships
• Income Protection Insurance
• Option to purchase additional leave
• Recognition through our Rest Excellence Awards

If you share our values and this sounds like the kind of place you’d do your best work, we’d like to hear from you. Apply now.

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.

We welcome applications from all candidates. To be considered, you will need the right to work in Australia.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2026. Rest is recognised as a superannuation leader across a range of areas including performance, responsible investment and member value. Find out more at https://rest.com.au/why-rest/awards.