South Africa: Change Management Specialist Consultant posted by New Beginnings Recruitment

• Leverage a change management methodology, process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.
  
• Enable the design, development, delivery and management of key communications.
  Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness, and identify key stakeholders.

• Support training efforts

• Provide input, document requirements, and support the design and delivery of training programs.
  
• Complete change management assessments
  
• Identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics
  
• Identify and manage anticipated and persistent resistance
  
• Consult and coach project teams
  
• Create actionable deliverables for the core change management plans: Sponsor Plan, People Manager Plan, Communications Plan, and Training Plan
  
• Create actionable deliverables for any required “Extend” plans, such as the Resistance Management Plan
  
• Support and engage senior leaders
  
• Coach people managers and supervisors
  
• Support organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities
  
• Coordinate efforts with other specialists
  
• Integrate change management activities into the project plan
  
• Evaluate and ensure user readiness
  
• Manage stakeholders
  
• Track and report issues
  
• Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress
  
• Support change management at the organizational level
  
• Manage the change portfolio
  

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in information systems, Business Administration, HRM or related field
  
• Certification in Change Management (e.g., Prosci, APMG)
  
• 35 years of experience in organizational change support or similar roles
  
• Strong facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills
  
• 5+ years experience in leading a large scale/organisational ICT- related and/or people related change