Change Management Specialist

Position Description

The Change Management Specialist will play a key role in ensuring projects (change initiatives) meet objectives on time and on budget by increasing employee adoption and usage. This person will focus on the people side of change- including, but not limited to, changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organization structures. The primary responsibility will be creating and implementing change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage and minimize resistance. The Change Management Specialist will work to drive faster adoption, higher ultimate utilization, and greater proficiency of the changes that impact employees in the organization to increase benefit realization, value creation, ROI, and the achievement of the results and outcomes.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities
• Asses the change impact
• Complete change management assessments
• Identify, analyze, prepare risk mitigation tactics
• Identify and manage anticipated resistance
• Create actionable deliverables for the five change management levers: communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, resistance management plan
• Support training and communication efforts
• Coordinate efforts with other specialists
• Integrate change management activities into project plan
• Evaluate and ensure user readiness
• Manage stakeholders
• Track and report issues
• Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress
• Create change management strategy
• Consult and coach project teams
• Support and engage senior leaders
• Coach managers and supervisors
• Support organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities
• Support change management at the organization level, Enterprise Change Management
• Manage the portfolio and change load

Skills and qualifications

• Exceptional communication skills- both written and verbal
• Excellent active listening skills
• Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
• Resilient and tenacious with a drive to persevere
• Forward-looking with a holistic approach
• Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
• Problem solving and root cause identification skills
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization
• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
• Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools
• Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges
• Familiarity with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle
• Experience with large scale organizational change efforts
• Change management certification or designation desired; Prosci Certification a plus
• A solid understanding of how people go through change and the change process; experience with Prosci ADKAR® Model is a plus