Organizational Change Management (OCM) Specialist

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children’s Hospital seeks an Organizational Change Management (OCM) Specialist to establish and scale OCM as a core IS capability. This role leads change for technology and digital transformation, guiding teams to adopt new systems, workflows, and ways of working across the organization.

The specialist partners with IS project teams, clinical and operational leaders, and stakeholders to assess impacts, build readiness, and manage resistance while developing repeatable OCM practices and

Qualifications

• Eight (8) years of experience leading or supporting organizational change management, technology, or process-improvement initiatives.
• Bachelor's degree may substitute for four years of experience.
• Master's degree may substitute for two years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead organizational change management activities for IS initiatives and technology projects.
• Develop and execute change strategies, stakeholder engagement plans, and adoption approaches.
• Conduct stakeholder, change impact, readiness, and resistance assessments.
• Partner with project managers, clinical leaders, operational teams, training, and communications to align change activities with project goals.
• Translate complex technology and process changes into clear communications.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder discussions, and leadership alignment sessions.
• Support go-live readiness, adoption monitoring, reinforcement activities, and sustainment planning.

Skills

OCM

Stakeholder engagement

Change leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Epic/EHR

Job description

Texas Children's Hospital is seeking a Organizational Change Management (OCM) Specialist to help establish and scale OCM as a core capability within Information Services (IS). This role will serve as a change lead for technology and digital transformation initiatives, helping teams successfully adopt new systems, workflows, and ways of working. The OCM Specialist will partner with IS project teams, clinical and operational leaders, and key stakeholders across the organization to assess impacts, build readiness, manage resistance, and support successful adoption. This individual will also help develop repeatable OCM practices, tools, and standards that can be embedded into IS project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead organizational change management activities for Information Services initiatives and technology projects.
• Develop and execute change strategies, stakeholder engagement plans, and adoption approaches.
• Conduct stakeholder, change impact, readiness, and resistance assessments to identify adoption risks.
• Partner with project managers, clinical leaders, operational teams, training, and communications to align change activities with project goals.
• Translate complex technology, workflow, and process changes into clear and actionable communications.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder discussions, and leadership alignment sessions.
• Support go-live readiness, adoption monitoring, reinforcement activities, and sustainment planning.
• Identify and mitigate change risks, barriers, and resistance to increase successful adoption.
• Continuously enhance OCM templates, toolkits, standards, and best practices to strengthen IS project delivery and advance OCM maturity.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and OCM resource for project teams, leaders, and stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Eight (8) years of experience leading or supporting organizational change management, technology, process improvement, or system implementation initiatives.
• Bachelor's degree may substitute for four (4) years of experience.
• Master's degree may substitute for two (2) years of experience.
• Up to three (3) years of clinical patient care and/or clinical research experience may substitute for information systems experience on a month-to-month basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading Organizational Change Management in a complex, matrixed healthcare organization.
• Experience supporting large-scale system implementations and workflow changes.
• Experience partnering with Information Services (IT), PMO, clinical operations, business operations, training, and communications teams.
• Familiarity with OCM frameworks such as ADKAR and change champion networks.
• Prosci, ACMP/CCMP, or similar change management certification preferred.
• Healthcare, hospital operations, Epic/EHR, or complex healthcare technology implementation experience preferred.
• Strong facilitation, communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills.

The ideal candidate is a strategic yet hands-on change practitioner who can move comfortably between planning and execution. They build strong relationships, influence without authority, and help teams successfully transition from implementation to sustained adoption.

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children ’ s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children ’ s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children ’ s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ’ s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children ’ s Health Plan, the nation ’ s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children ’ s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children ’ s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children ’ s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.