Senior Change Management Consultant

Job 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 :

Desirable Skills :

Process Management :

Experience and Skill Set Requirements :

Change Management : 25%