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At Jacobs we recognize our people are the key to our success and that of our clients. This role will focus on the people side of a change. The Organizational Change Management Lead is key to ensuring programmes and change initiatives meet objectives on time and on budget by increasing employee acceptance and usage, delivering sustainable change. Through the application of business change techniques, including communications and training, the successful, highly skilled Organizational Change Management Lead will be critical to the delivery of key programmes both internally and for clients, identifying the nature and level of change impact on the business, ensuring business readiness and that programme objectives and business benefits are delivered.
Primary responsibilities will be creating and implementing change management strategies and plans that maximize adoption and usage while minimizing resistance.
The Organizational Change Management Lead will work with the Jacobs’ organisation and clients’ programme teams and organizational leaders to ensure adoption, utilization and proficiency of the changes that impact employees in the organization in order to increase benefit realization, value creation, return on investment and the achievement of results and outcomes.
- Leading and delivering the change strategies which underpin the change portfolio, ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, both within Jacobs itself and for clients
- Supporting people through transformational change and be a credible subject matter expert
- Managing, developing and inspiring our change delivery resource, creating a significant step change in performance to enable ‘best in class’ change delivery
- Working closely with the business leaders and stakeholders, programme directors and managers to ensure that there is a clear and compelling vision, with clearly defined benefits
- Engaging stakeholders to understand change impacts and business readiness to adopt planned changes and realise benefits
- Leveraging structured methodology to lead the design of a consistent change strategy to meet the unique needs of each change initiative
- Collaborating with leaders and partners across corporate functions, lines of business and programmes to develop and implement change strategies in support of projects and initiatives
- Facilitating and creating deliverables related to: change vision and strategy, leadership and sponsor engagement, identifying key stakeholders, conducting impact analysis, change champion strategy, resistance management strategy, learning needs analysis, assessing change readiness, and identifying metrics to measure change effectiveness and ensure sustainability
- Modelling change management best practices and engage in peer learning and coaching with other change practitioners in the organization
- Partnering with leaders to build and execute on executive communications approach
- Expanding and fortify our change management methodology.
- Experience of managing, implementing, facilitating, and monitoring change on transformational change programmes
- Relevant qualification, e.g. one of: Prosci ADKAR Model, APMG - Change Management or equivalent
- Superior knowledge of the principles and concepts that underpin change management and can advise on a ‘good practice approach’ to business change
- Experience in stakeholder management on complex/sensitive programmes and has credibility and impact with peers and leaders with ablilty to gain buy-in to enable change to happen through others
- Excellent interpersonal and communication (including presentation) skills and a proven ability to develop, maintain and enhance relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Able to identify both the overt and covert culture of the organisation and its influence on the change
- Strong project management and organizational skills, high awareness of the project and programme context and discipline
- Fully competent at planning, risk management, and dependency-management.
- International working environment and unique company culture with emphasis on individual career growth and work-life balance
- Friendly atmosphere and professional collaboration founded on diversity and inclusion in the workplace (e.g. employees’ organizations initiatives like Women’s Networks, Green Team, Toastmasters, sport activities)
- Full time employment contract with salary corresponding to qualifications
- Benefits package (e.g. private medical care, life insurance, Multisport card, car park sharing system, bicycle parking)
- Personal development opportunities, including but not limited to, a range of professional trainings and certifications (e.g. ACCA, CIMA)
- Flexible working hours and ability to work remotely based on business requirements.