GVA Partners - Our clients in the telecommunication and financial service industries is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Organization Change Manager
Location: Nigeria
Job Description:
- The ideal candidate will play a key role in ensuring projects (change initiatives) meet objectives on time and on budget by increasing employee adoption and application usage.
- Additionally, he/she will oversee, monitor, and measure plan execution and effectiveness, manage work-plan activities, reporting status, and assisting designated resources to stay on plan as well as track and manage against budget.
- Educational Qualifications Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline.
Key Responsibilities/Duties:
- Develop and deliver change management strategies, plans and activities that support end-user needs and overall goals of project.
- Apply a structured methodology and lead the change management activities
- Build business case for change.
- Manage communication with key stakeholders and executive and senior management levels.
- Identify, analyze, and prepare risk mitigation tactics.
- Identify and manage anticipated resistance.
- Integrate change management activities into project plan.
- Partner with functional teams to identify key business process decisions and their potential impact to the organization (process and procedures, individual role/jobs, etc), in order to develop appropriate change activities.
- Develop appropriate change interventions to identify change areas.
- Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress.
- Identify potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance, and to develop specific plans to mitigate or address concerns.
- Develop training strategies and implementation plan
- Coordinate project change management activities with change management activities on other related IT initiatives and general business activities within impacted business units.
- Oversee, monitor, and measure plan execution and effectiveness. Manage work-plan activities, reporting status and assisting designated resources to stay on plan. Track and manage against budget.
- Ensure that there is value realization and defined in the change business case.
Experience and Training:
- Minimum of 5-8 years experience in a consulting role.
- Managed Change initiative on a large scale software system implementation process.
- Previous experience in Big Consulting firms.
- Strong documentation skills.
- Excellent oral & written communication skills.
- A solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process.
- Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools.
- Active listening skills
- Flexible and adaptable with ability to work in ambiguous situations
- Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics.
- Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization
- Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project life cycle.
- Experience with large scale organizational change efforts.
Application Closing Date
5th September, 2014
Method of Application:
Candidates who meet the above requirement should email their resume to:
[email protected] &
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