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RQ09211 - Change Management Consultant - Senior
RQ09211 - Change Management Consultant - Seniorfreelance.ca • Toronto, Canada
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RQ09211 - Change Management Consultant - Senior

RQ09211 - Change Management Consultant - Senior

freelance.ca • Toronto, Canada
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job Title : RQ09211 - Change Management Consultant - Senior

Estimated Start Date : 2025-06-02

Estimated End Date : 2026-03-31

#Business Days : 207.00

Extension : 160.00

Hours per day or Week : 7.25 hours per day

Security Level : CRJMC

Must haves

  • 7-10 years Change Management Experience
  • Enterprise level change management
  • Relationship management experience
  • Communication and consultation experience skills

Description

Responsibilities

Work with organizations :

  • Provide expertise, consultative advice, guidance, and coaching to build knowledge and expertise in change management principles, methodologies, and tools.
  • Help leaders and teams :

  • Enhance their capabilities to understand how change impacts people, the reasons why people resist change, and how to support people as they transition through change.
  • Be an active and visible coach :

  • Support leaders, partners, and stakeholders in their role as change champions.
  • Partner and collaborate :

  • Work collaboratively with key roles such as project managers, business analysts, process improvement specialists, change consultants, and leadership to integrate change practices at all levels of the organization.
  • Develop and implement strategies :

  • Create change management strategies, plans, and frameworks.
  • Lead communication efforts :

  • Develop, implement, and / or provide input in the development of communication plans, sponsor roadmaps, stakeholder assessments, training plans, and resistance management throughout the lifecycle of the project.
  • Lead stakeholder management :

  • Identify and analyze key stakeholders, and develop stakeholder engagement strategies.
  • Ensure alignment :

  • Align change management activities with participating stakeholders to remove change barriers, smooth the adoption process, and contribute to problem-solving for successful implementation.
  • Engage clients and stakeholders :

  • Ensure that clients, partners, and stakeholders are actively engaged in the change, consulted with, and communicated to.
  • Articulate the purpose of change :

  • Explain the purpose of change in a manner that makes sense to impacted stakeholders and provides a compelling picture of the new organization.
  • Build consensus :

  • Gain agreement among clients, partners, and stakeholders on specific changes designed to better meet their needs.
  • Identify and mitigate risks :

  • Identify potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance, and develop plans to mitigate or address concerns.
  • Conduct readiness assessments :

  • Design and conduct change readiness assessments, evaluate results, and present findings to stakeholders to plan and carry out a change management strategy.
  • Track adoption and proficiency :
  • Administer measurement systems to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency of individual changes.
  • Sustain benefits :

  • Develop an approach to embed and institutionalize the change to sustain the benefits achieved, including knowledge transfer, performance management, continuous improvement, and other related practices.
  • General Skills

  • Change management expertise :
  • Experience and knowledge of change management industry standards, best practices, methodologies, and tools.
  • Strategy development :

  • Experience in the development of training, communication, and change management strategies and plans.
  • Stakeholder engagement :

  • Ability to work effectively and engage with a diverse group of stakeholders, such as senior management and leaders, project managers, etc.
  • Conflict management :

  • Strong conflict management, interpersonal, and communication skills (written and verbal).
  • Project management :

  • Experience with project management fundamentals and understanding of the lifecycle of a project.
  • Active listening :

  • Excellent active listening skills.
  • Analytical abilities :

  • Strong analytical and decision-making abilities.
  • Presentation skills :

  • Strong presentation and group facilitation skills.
  • Desirable Skills

    Change impact assessment :

  • Experience identifying and assessing change impacts to the organization’s business processes and technology solutions to drive business and people adoption.
  • Transformational projects :

  • Experience leading medium to large transformational change projects.
  • Structured approach :

  • Experience working with project leads to apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the people side change across assigned initiatives.
  • Stakeholder analysis :

  • Experience understanding the program / project and related change management issues by identifying key stakeholders and how they will be impacted by the change.
  • Actionable plans :

  • Experience developing actionable and targeted change management plans that include communications, coaching, training, sponsorship, and / or other resistance management activities.
  • Success metrics :

  • Experience defining and measuring success metrics and monitoring change progress to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency related to changes.
  • Process management :
  • Experience managing the change management process, and applying change management principles.
  • Experience coordinating efforts with other subject matter experts, including communications specialists, training specialists, and human resource consultants during implementation.
  • Ability to influence others, at all levels within the organization, and move towards a common goal.
  • Experience and Skill Set Requirements

  • Change Management : 25%
  • Interpersonal, Influencing and Communications Skills : 25%
  • Project Management Skills : 20%
  • Analyzing / Problem-Solving Skills : 20%
  • Technical Skills : 10%
  • Note :

    Hybrid Work Environment : The successful candidate is expected to work onsite at 222 Jarvis St 3 days per week, and may work remotely up to 2 days per week.

  • Hybrid - Candidate MUST work 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
  • Without mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.

  • Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)
  • Skills Matrix and References (Mandatory)
  • Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
  • Visa Status (Mandatory)
  • LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)
  • Please only apply if you meet the qualifications mentioned above. Feel free to share with your network or tag someone who fits for this role

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