Change Partner: Strategy & Adoption Leader

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

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.