Business Consultant

• Lead, facilitate and document strategic plans and priorities, aligning to Department vision;
• Identify projects to achieve this vision;
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and focus groups;
• Prepare and present strategies and information to steering committees and project groups;
• Prepare and deliver presentations about initiatives or issues to executives and staff, steering committees, project groups and Service Alberta personnel and other stakeholders;
• Assist with risk management and issues management;
• Develop and execute change management plans and communication plans;
• Develop business cases through a consultative approach with business sponsors and key stakeholders, identifying benefits and performance measure indicators;
• Document initiative/project backgrounds, descriptions, environmental analyses, financial modeling, alternatives, impacts, risks, cost-benefit analyses, recommendations, implementation strategies, and approval processes;
• Provide quality assurance services throughout the business case development to ensure completeness and consistency of documentation, which could include content review;
• Identify risks associated with business cases and their implementation;
• Integrate and align multiple business cases; understand and document dependencies.

Qualifications

- Experience with Change Management; certification in formal Change Management will be seen as an asset (for example: ProSci or similar).
- Demonstrated experience communicating and interacting with all levels in an organization, from front line staff to high-level executives, to facilitate change and foster successful delivery of project objectives.
- Experience working in a public sector environment.