Change Management Consultant

V Group Inc.; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Philadelphia seeks an Organizational Change Management Lead to guide departmental readiness and adoption for the OPAL project. You will coordinate with stakeholders to prepare for process and system changes, develop training and communications, and support testing and deployment activities.

The role requires strong SDLC/change-management expertise, excellent facilitation and documentation skills, and a track record of driving user adoption across large organizations.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of SDLC from a change management perspective.
• Ability to keep data confidential.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to create user and project documentation.

Responsibilities

• Define, facilitate, track, and manage readiness activities with stakeholders.
• Help ensure stakeholders are ready to embrace the new technology and processes.
• Assess readiness status and decide on deployments.
• Prepare departments for system implementation.
• Identify and revise configurations, integrations, and reporting.
• Drive standardization and new process adoption across departments.
• Involve key users in deployment activities (testing, training, communications, conversion).

Skills

SDLC (Change Mgmt)

Communication

Facilitation

Stakeholder engagement

Documentation

Coaching/oversight

Problem solving

Interviews

Education

OCM education related to ERP

PMI Certifications

Tools

Workday

Job description

End Client: City of Philadelphia

Job Title: OCM Lead

Duration: 4 Months +Extendable

Location: Philadelphia, PA 19102 (Remote. Hours are M-F (8:30-5:00) 8 hours with a 30 minute unpaid lunch)

Ceipal ID: COP_OCM442_SN

Job Code: 442

Scope of Project

The Organizational Change Management Lead to help departmental stakeholders and key impacted users to prepare for and implement OPAL related business process and systems changes within their departments. The 6 Organizational Change Management Readiness Leads will each be responsible for working with an assigned group of individual departments and their associated stakeholders to prepare them for the implementation of the OPAL Project.

Responsibilities

• 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.)

Required/Preferred Skills

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;
• 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

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