Change Management Consultant - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Work with organizations by providing expertise consultative advice guidance and coaching to build knowledge and expertise of 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 to support leaders partners and stakeholders in their role as change champions
  
• Partner and 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 change management strategies plans and framework
  
• Lead develop implement and/or provide input in the development of communication plans sponsor roadmaps stakeholder assessments training plan and resistance management throughout the lifecycle of the project
  
• Leads stakeholder management including identification and analysis of key stakeholders and the development of stakeholder engagement strategies
  
• Ensure the alignment of change management activities with participating stakeholders to remove change barriers smooth the adoption process and contribute to problem solving resulting in successful implementation
  
• Ensure that clients/partners and stakeholders are actively engaged in the change consulted with and communicated to
  
• Be able to articulate the purpose of change in a manner that makes sense to impacted stakeholders and provides a compelling picture of the new organization
  
• Build consensus among clients/partners and stakeholders on specific changes designed to better meet their needs
  
• Identify potential people side risks and anticipated points of resistance and develop plans to mitigate or address concerns
  
• Design and conduct change readiness assessments evaluate results and present findings to stakeholders to plan and carry out a change management strategy
  
• Administer measurement systems to track adoption utilization and proficiency of individual changes
  
• Develops an approach to embed/institutionalize the change to sustain the benefits achieved including knowledge transfer performance management continuous improvement and other related practices.
  

General Skills:

• Experience and knowledge of change management industry standards best practices methodologies and tools
  
• Experience in development of training communication and change management strategies and plans
  
• Ability to work effectively and engage with a diverse group of stakeholders such as senior management and leaders project managers etc.
  
• Strong conflict management interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
  
• Experience with project management fundamentals and understanding of the lifecycle of a project
  
• Excellent active listening skills
  
• Strong analytical and decisionmaking abilities
  
• Strong presentation and group facilitation skills
  

Desirable Skills:

• Experience identifying and assessing change impacts to the organization s business processes and technology solutions to drive business and people adoption
  
• Experience leading medium to large transformational change projects
  
• Experience working with project leads to apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the people side change across for assigned initiatives
  
• Experience understanding the program/project and related change management issues by identifying key stakeholders and how they will be impacted by the change
  
• Experience developing actionable and targeted change management plans that include communications coaching training sponsorship and/or other resistance management activities
  
• Experience defining and measuring success metrics and monitor change progress to track adoption utilization and proficiency related to changes
  
• Experience managing the change management process and applying change management best practices to support the project or initiative
  
• 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
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Have:

• 710 years Change Management Experience
  
• Relationship management experience
  
• Communication and consultation experience skills
  

Skill Set / Experience Required:

• Change Management
  
• Interpersonal Influencing and Communications Skills
  
• Project Management Skills
  
• Analyzing/ProblemSolving Skills
  
• Technical Skills