Description
Change Management Lead
St. Paul, MN7 Plus Month Contract Project Deliverables
The Lead will be responsible for developing a strategy based on situational awareness of the Projects' details and the groups being impacted, including identifying risks and anticipated points of resistance, and developing specific plans to mitigate or address concerns. The Lead will also assist in developing essential change management capabilities within and shall provide the following services and Deliverables:
Provide a structured methodology and lead change management activities
- Conduct stakeholder analysis, readiness assessments, evaluate results, and present findings in a logical and easy-to-understand manner
- Develop a set of actionable and targeted change management plans - including communication plans, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, and resistance management plan
- Execute the change management plans and/or support the project teams in the execution of change management plans
- Be an active and visible coach and mentor to project leadership, department managers, and change sponsors
- Create and manage measurement systems to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency of individual changes
- Identify resistance and performance gaps and work to develop and implement corrective actions
- Create and enable reinforcement mechanisms and celebrations of success
- Work with project teams to integrate change management activities into the overall project plan
- Work with project teams in the formulation of particular plans and activities to support project. implementation
- Define and measure success
Required Skills
Required minimum qualifications:
- 3 years minimum experience in Organizational Change Management
- 3 years minimum experience in Project Management
- At least 2 previous engagements on large-scale technology deployments