Do you have Change Management experience? Do you have Relationship management experience? Do you have communication and consultation experience skills? if so this would a great opportunity for you!
Our client is looking for a Change Management Consultant for a 10-month contract in Toronto. This is a hybrid role - Candidate MUST work 3 days onsite and 2 days remote. There is a high possibility of contract extension.
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Advantages
- Long-term contract with potential contract extension
- Hybrid work model
- Earn a competitive rate within the industry
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.
Qualifications
Must Haves:
- 7-10 years Change Management Experience
- Enterprise level change management
- Relationship management experience
- Communication and consultation experience skills
General Skills
- Experience and knowledge of change management industry standards, best practices, methodologies, and tools.
- Experience in the 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 decision-making 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 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 monitoring change progress to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency related to changes.
- 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.
Summary
If you are interested in the Change Management Consultant in Toronto, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Do you have Change Management experience? Do you have Relationship management experience? Do you have communication and consultation experience skills? if so this would a great opportunity for you!
Our client is looking for a Change Management Consultant for a 10-month contract in Toronto. This is a hybrid role - Candidate MUST work 3 days onsite and 2 days remote. There is a high possibility of contract extension.
Advantages
- Long-term contract with potential contract extension
- Hybrid work model
- Earn a competitive rate within the industry
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.
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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.
Qualifications
Must Haves:
- 7-10 years Change Management Experience
- Enterprise level change management
- Relationship management experience
- Communication and consultation experience skills
General Skills
- Experience and knowledge of change management industry standards, best practices, methodologies, and tools.
- Experience in the 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 decision-making 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 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 monitoring change progress to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency related to changes.
- 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.
Summary
If you are interested in the Change Management Consultant in Toronto, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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