Sr. Change Management Specialist

8 hours daily, Monday to Friday (excluding stat holidays and mandatory vacation time off as specified by the company). Core business hours are between 7:00am-5:00pm (CST)


Advantages
You will have an opportunity to work with a leading employer in the local market.


Responsibilities
- Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities
- Leverage company change management methodology, process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative
- Support communication efforts
- Enable the design, development, delivery and management of key communications
- Assess the change impact
- Conduct impact analysis, assess change readiness, and identify key stakeholders
- Support training efforts
- Provide input, document requirements, and support the design and delivery of training programs

Additional responsibilities include:
- Complete change management assessments
- Identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics
- Identify and manage anticipated and persistent resistance
- Consult and coach project teams
- Create actionable deliverables for the core change management plans: Sponsor Plan, People Manager Plan, Communications Plan, and Training Plan
- Create actionable deliverables for any required "Extend" plans, such as the Resistance Management Plan
- Support and engage senior leaders
- Coach people managers and supervisors
- Support organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities
- Coordinate efforts with other specialists
- Integrate change management activities into the project plan
- Evaluate and ensure user readiness
- Manage stakeholders
- Track and report issues
- Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress
- Other duties as assigned


Qualifications
- A solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process
- Experience with and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and oral
- 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 propensity 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 of an organization
- Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
- 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 required


Summary
Do you have this experience? If you answer YES, then please apply IMMEDIATELY to so we can then discuss your experience and interest in this opportunity!

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