Change Partner

cwi; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's Wisconsin seeks a Change Partner to advise and execute change strategies for organizational initiatives that require strong stakeholder alignment and sustained impact. You will design and implement change plans to improve readiness, adoption, and measurable outcomes across the health system.

The role partners with leaders and project teams to ensure adoption, monitor progress, and enhance enterprise change capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead change strategy, planning, and execution for moderately complex initiatives.
• Partner with the Change Enablement Lead and project leaders to shape and execute change approaches for large-scale and system-wide transformation efforts.
• Develop and execute change management plans, including stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, reinforcement, and sustainment activities.
• Conduct impact assessments, stakeholder analyses, and organizational readiness assessments.
• Identify change risks, barriers, and adoption challenges and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Integrate change management activities into project planning and implementation efforts.
• Align change activities with initiative goals, operational priorities, and desired outcomes.
• Conduct assessments to evaluate stakeholder impacts, readiness, adoption risks, and organizational capacity for change.
• Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to inform change planning and decision making.
• Define, track, and interpret change management activities, adoption metrics, stakeholder engagement, and readiness indicators to inform decisions and adjust plans.
• Monitor feedback and performance measures to identify opportunities for intervention and continuous improvement.
• Develop and implement measurement approaches that evaluate adoption, utilization, sustainment, and business outcomes.
• Recommend adjustments to change plans based on stakeholder feedback, organizational needs, and performance data.
• Build collaborative relationships with leaders, project teams, and stakeholders across the organization.
• Advise leaders on readiness, engagement, resistance, communication, and actions needed to prepare teams for change.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, alignment sessions, and feedback discussions.
• Guide leaders in communicating change‑related messages and addressing team member concerns.
• Identify and address stakeholder resistance and engagement challenges.
• Build leader and stakeholder ownership of successful adoption and long‑term outcomes.
• Partner with operational leaders, project teams, learning partners, and communication teams to drive successful implementation and adoption.
• Monitor how effectively teams are adopting changes and identify areas that need additional support.
• Develop reinforcement and sustainment strategies that integrate changes into daily operations.
• Gather feedback and analyze outcomes to evaluate change effectiveness.
• Track and analyze outcome measures to evaluate whether changes are delivering the intended business, operational, workforce, or customer impact.
• Identify opportunities to improve adoption, strengt

Job description

At Children's Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best.

Children's Wisconsin is a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children. We provide primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers. Our reputation draws patients and families from around the country.

We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country. If you want to work for an organization that makes a difference for children and families, and encourages you to be at your best every day.

Please follow this link for a closer look at what it's like to work at Children's Wisconsin: https://www.instagram.com/lifeatcw/.

Job Summary

The Change Partner serves as a change management advisor and execution partner for organizational initiatives that require strong stakeholder alignment, behavior adoption, and sustained operational impact. This role partners with leaders, project teams, and stakeholders to design and implement change strategies that improve readiness, engagement, adoption, and long-term outcomes across Children's Wisconsin. The Change Partner leads change strategy and execution for moderately complex initiatives and serves as a key partner on large-scale and system-wide transformation efforts. This role applies structured change management practices, stakeholder insight, data, and organizational understanding to assess impacts, identify risks, guide leader readiness, and support successful adoption. This role also helps build enterprise change capability by improving change management methods, tools, measurement practices, and scalable resources that help the organization navigate change more consistently and effectively. Success in this role is measured by the degree to which changes are understood, adopted, sustained, and connected to measurable business, operational, workforce, or stakeholder outcomes.

Essential Functions

Change Strategy and Execution

• Lead change strategy, planning, and execution for moderately complex initiatives.
• Partner with the Change Enablement Lead and project leaders to shape and execute change approaches for large-scale and system-wide transformation efforts.
• Develop and execute change management plans, including stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, reinforcement, and sustainment activities.
• Conduct impact assessments, stakeholder analyses, and organizational readiness assessments.
• Identify change risks, barriers, and adoption challenges and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Integrate change management activities into project planning and implementation efforts.
• Align change activities with initiative goals, operational priorities, and desired outcomes.

Change Assessment, Planning, and Measurement

• Conduct assessments to evaluate stakeholder impacts, readiness, adoption risks, and organizational capacity for change.
• Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to inform change planning and decision making.
• Define, track, and interpret change management activities, adoption metrics, stakeholder engagement, and readiness indicators to inform decisions and adjust plans.
• Monitor feedback and performance measures to identify opportunities for intervention and continuous improvement.
• Develop and implement measurement approaches that evaluate adoption, utilization, sustainment, and business outcomes.
• Recommend adjustments to change plans based on stakeholder feedback, organizational needs, and performance data.

Leadership and Stakeholder Enablement

• Build collaborative relationships with leaders, project teams, and stakeholders across the organization.
• Advise leaders on readiness, engagement, resistance, communication, and actions needed to prepare teams for change.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, alignment sessions, and feedback discussions.
• Guide leaders in communicating change‑related messages and addressing team member concerns.
• Identify and address stakeholder resistance and engagement challenges.
• Build leader and stakeholder ownership of successful adoption and long‑term outcomes.

Organizational Adoption, Sustainment, and Value Realization

• Partner with operational leaders, project teams, learning partners, and communication teams to drive successful implementation and adoption.
• Monitor how effectively teams are adopting changes and identify areas that need additional support.
• Develop reinforcement and sustainment strategies that integrate changes into daily operations.
• Gather feedback and analyze outcomes to evaluate change effectiveness.
• Track and analyze outcome measures to evaluate whether changes are delivering the intended business, operational, workforce, or customer impact.
• Identify opportunities to improve adoption, strengt