Director, Organizational Change Management

Job Title: Director Organizational Change Management

Pay Information: $180K $220K

Location: Remote first work environment with occasional travel and in office meetings

Who we are:

The California Dental Association is a membership organization that represents 27000 of the states best and brightest dental professionals and champions the oral health of the communities they serve. As the largest state dental association in the U.S. CDA delivers remarkable advocacy initiatives fierce protection innovative education and expert guidance to our members. Founded in 1870 CDA has innovated and grown into a family of companies that includes the association The Dentists Insurance Company (TDIC) TDIC Insurance Solutions Rotunda Partners and the CDA Foundation.

Were a missiondriven organization thats here to empower our members and support their practices dental teams profession and patients. By making today easier and tomorrow better for dentists our employees make a meaningful and direct impact on the health of others.

At CDA we seek out welcome and invest in talented individuals across unique specialties and prioritize diversity in our hiring practices. We know our employees are integral to our success and we value their individual talents while encouraging a collaborative inclusive respectful and forwardthinking culture. Were proud to be recognized as a Best Place to Work for factors like our people practicesworkenvironment and trust in senior leaders.

If youre excited to share your talents at a dynamic organization thats leading the way in oral health we invite you to apply to join us.

Company Benefits:

At CDA we offer a robust benefits package that enhances overall employee wellbeing and provides options to meet the needs of our diverse workforce. We listen to our employees on matters of wellness and devote time and resources to continuously evaluate our benefits to ensure we can best support their worklife goals.

• Remote and hybrid flexibility and technology to support remote work
• Generous time off program starting at 22 days of PTO and13 paid holidays (includes a floating holiday and winter closure)
• Highly competitive medical dental and vision plans including FSA and HSA account options
• 401(k) plans with a generous match and safe harbor contributions upon eligibility
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness programs including incentives and an InShape Family Fitness discount
• Opportunities for professional development training and leadership skillbuilding
• Critical illness accident life pet short term and longterm disability insurance options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for support navigating daytoday challenges

Universal Competencies:

• Collaboration: Proactively engages with an iterative mindset to enhance ideas and achieve organizational results; Cultivates relationships builds partnerships shares and learns without boundaries.
• Service: Focusing on meeting needs and exceeding expectations for those served inside and outside the organization.
• Respect: Embracing others for their true authentic self; nurture and promote an environment that values diversity of thought input experience and expertise.

Role Specific Competencies:

• Problem Solving: Applies analysis creativity resilience and logic to reach optimal outcomes; develops and implements solutions.
• Influence: Inspires action to achieve organizational goals and desired outcomes; demonstrates expertise and earns respect; socializes ideas and brings others along.
• Adaptability: Appropriately adjusts behavior to changing conditions and business needs; modifies approach to succeed with new situations and timelines.

How the Director contributes:

• Develops and implements change management strategies and plans that maximize user adoption and usage.
• Identifies potential risks and anticipated points of resistance and develops specific plans to mitigate or address concerns.
• Identifies tradeoffs and processes changes required for new system usage. Develops (or ensures development of) new processes and communicates to users.
• Works collaboratively with business and IT leaders translating business objectives into system architecture and selection of systems.
• Collaborates regularly across the organization to understand business needs priorities and how technology can support the objectives.
• Facilitates communication of business objectives to IT team members who can translate objectives into system requirements.
• Tracks the completion of requests to ensure needs are met followsup to check on status and progress using the system and gathers feedback to improve IT operations.
• Serves as a business project manager to coordinate the completion of deliverables by crossfunctional teams to meet deadlines and objectives.
• Develops and executes communication plans to keep employees informed about upcoming changes and the reasons behind them.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
• 3 years of experience in IT project management IT program management AND 3 years of experience in IT Organizational Change Management or IT leadership.
• Experience building and delivering communications about complex technology processes or systems to everyday users
• Ability to understand business objectives and the current capabilities of technology in order to identify gaps and communicate gaps to IT professionals.
• Experience partnering with organizational leaders to create and lead change management and communications strategy
• Strong understanding of change management principles methodologies and tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• PROSCI or other change management certification
• Experience working with senior departmental and organizational leadership

Working Conditions: Occasionally (133%) Frequently (3466%) Constantly (67100%)

• Constantly sitting.
• Occasional overnight travel.

We Are CDA

Over our 150year history the California Dental Association (CDA) has become a leader in oral health throughout California and the country. Today we continue to support our community of over 27000 dentists through our family of companies which include The Dentists Insurance Company (TDIC) TDIC Insurance Solutions Rotunda Partners and the CDA Foundation. At CDA we value individual talents encouraging a diverse collaborative and innovative work environment fueled by new ideas. As our organization continues to grow we invite you to be a part of whats next.

CDA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and providing a safe work environment. CDA does not tolerate discrimination or harassment and all employment decisions are based on job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion national origin age gender gender identity or expression sex ancestry citizenship status mental or physical disability genetic information sexual orientation veteran or military status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please contact us at

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