Organizational change management lead

Role: Organizational change management leads (multiple positions)

Job Type: Contract

Hybrid - couple of days from the office - must be in commutable distance to center city Philly.

 Work activities: 

Throughout the OPAL Project, the Organizational Change Management Readiness Lead (OCM Readiness Lead) will: 

• Work with stakeholders to define, facilitate, track, & manage readiness activities; 

• Work with Change Management team to help ensure stakeholders are ready and able to embrace the new technology and process capabilities; 

• Assess status and take key decisions with respect to readiness for capability deployments; 

• Work with individual department stakeholders to prepare for implementation of the new system; 

• Revise and identify configuration elements, integrations, & reporting for the new system, and make changes; and 

• Work with stakeholders to help drive standardization, and new process adoption within their departments. 

• Work with stakeholders to include key impacted users in departmental deployment related activities (i.e. process and systems setup confirmation, testing, training, communications, conversion validation, etc.) 

Skills/experience of the assigned staff: 

Required 

• Knowledge of Full Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from a change management perspective; 

• Ability to keep data confidential; 

• Strong problem solving and analytic skillsets; 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to create user and project documentation and procedures, clearly and concisely; 

• Strong meeting facilitation and interviewing skills; 

• Meeting presentation skills; 

• Solid task assignment, coaching, and oversight expertise; 

• Ability to work well with individuals at all levels within and outside the organization; and 

• Experience creating communications content and delivering this content to impacted stakeholders 

Highly Desired/Preferred 

• Organizational Change Management Education related to ERP Implementations 

• Workday Financials/Supply Chain Implementation experience or similar Software as a Service Solutions 

• Project Management Expertise with appropriate Project Management Institute Certifications 

• Large, Decentralized public sector industry-based experience 

• Local to the City of Philadelphia or local areas desired