Change Management Consultant
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- Queen's Park Ontario Provincial Government, ON, Canada
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Original job description
Position: Change Management Consultant
Location: Toronto, ON
Job ID#: RQ11821
Duration: 12 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Change Management Consultant to support organizational transformation initiatives. The successful candidate will provide expert guidance, develop change strategies, engage stakeholders, and help ensure successful adoption of business and technology changes across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide
expertise, consultative advice, guidance, and coaching in change
management principles, methodologies, and tools.
- Enhance
leadership and team capabilities to understand change impacts, resistance
factors, and transition strategies.
- Act
as an active and visible coach to support leaders, partners, and
stakeholders in their role as change champions.
- Collaborate
with project managers, business analysts, process improvement specialists,
leadership teams, and other stakeholders to integrate change management
practices.
- Develop
and implement change management strategies, plans, and frameworks.
- Lead
communication initiatives including communication plans, sponsor roadmaps,
stakeholder assessments, training plans, and resistance management
activities.
- Identify
and analyze stakeholders and develop engagement strategies.
- Align
change management activities across stakeholders to remove barriers and
improve adoption.
- Ensure
stakeholders remain informed, consulted, and actively engaged throughout
the change lifecycle.
- Clearly
communicate the purpose and benefits of change to impacted groups.
- Build
consensus among stakeholders regarding change initiatives.
- Identify
people-side risks and resistance factors and develop mitigation
strategies.
- Design
and conduct change readiness assessments, evaluate outcomes, and present
recommendations.
- Track
change adoption, utilization, and proficiency using measurement systems.
- Develop
sustainability approaches to institutionalize change and maintain
long-term benefits through knowledge transfer, performance management, and
continuous improvement practices.
Required Qualifications
General Skills
- Experience
and knowledge of organizational change management standards,
methodologies, best practices, and tools.
- Experience
developing training, communication, and change management strategies and
plans.
- Strong
stakeholder engagement capabilities across diverse groups, including
senior leadership and project teams.
- Excellent
conflict management, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication
skills.
- Understanding
of project management fundamentals and project lifecycles.
- Strong
active listening skills.
- Excellent
analytical and decision-making abilities.
- Strong
presentation and facilitation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience
conducting change impact assessments related to business processes and
technology solutions.
- Experience
leading medium-to-large transformation initiatives.
- Experience
applying structured change management methodologies across projects and
programs.
- Experience
analyzing stakeholder impacts and organizational readiness.
- Experience
developing communication, coaching, training, sponsorship, and resistance
management plans.
- Experience
defining and measuring adoption and change success metrics.
- Experience
managing end-to-end change management processes.
- Experience
collaborating with communications, training, and HR specialists.
- Demonstrated
ability to influence stakeholders at all organizational levels and drive
alignment toward shared goals.
Work Arrangement
- 5
Days Onsite
- Toronto,
Ontario
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Responsibilities
The consultant will develop and implement change management strategies to support organizational transformation and ensure the successful adoption of business and technology changes. They will act as a coach to leadership and stakeholders while tracking change adoption and institutionalizing long-term benefits.
Requirements
Candidates must have extensive experience in organizational change management methodologies, tools, and best practices. Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills are required to lead transformation initiatives and drive alignment across diverse groups.
Skills
- Change management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Organizational transformation
- Communication strategy
- Leadership coaching
- Project management
- Change readiness assessment
- Conflict management
- Analytical skills
- Facilitation
- Strategic planning
- Risk mitigation
- Performance management
- Business process improvement
- Training development
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- Management & Leadership
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- Technology
Keywords
- Change Management
- Organizational Transformation
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Project Management
- Communication Plans
- Change Readiness
- Resistance Management
- Consulting
- Business Process
- Technology Solutions
- Coaching
- Facilitation
- Performance Management
- Knowledge Transfer
- Transformation Initiatives
- Strategic Planning
- Measurement Systems
- IT Consulting
- Government & Public Sector