RQ11276 Sr. Change Management Consultant

RQ11276 - Sr. Change Management Consultant

1-year contract (249 business days) - 2 possible extension

Security Level: CRJMC

Must Have:

• MUST have exp with Organizational Change Management at an enterprise level. Candidate will not be considered if they do not have the extensive OCM exp.
• Exp with large projects handling various stakeholders.
• Exp with creating communication plans training plans and various other tools.

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

• Organizational Change management expertise:
  • Experience and knowledge of Organizational change management industry standards best practices methodologies and tools.
• Strategy development:
  • Experience in the development of training communication and Organizational 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 organizations 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 Organizational change management approach and methodology for the people side change across assigned initiatives.
• Stakeholder analysis:
  • Experience understanding the program/project and related Organizational 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.

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Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $87.09/hr - $104.51/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $69.67/hr - $83.61/hr T4

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1