Project and Change Manager, Strategy & Planning (SCCA)

This role is responsible for monitoring progress against deliverables for specific projects that most significantly impact our staff and will develop strong stakeholder engagement and communication plans with key stakeholders to ensure they understand the future state and change benefit, impact, and deployment methodology. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Management:  

• Working closely with the VP Operations ensure each strategic priority initiative includes a clear definition of scope and objectives and a roadmap for execution that considers resources, timelines and deliverables. 
• Help teams to identify and monitor dependencies across initiatives, ensuring delays to implementation are mitigated. 

Change Management Strategy and Planning:

• Develop a change management plan of SCC’s multi-year strategy and specific projects within it, leveraging a structured change management methodology, process, and tools.
• Ensure a strategy is in place and integrated to support teams to accelerate change. This will include but is not limited to a communications plan that threads the compelling case for change for key work, shares high-level benefits and monitors change fatigue and adoption.
• Support capacity building initiatives focused on change management.

 

Communication and Training:

• Draft communications related to change initiatives.
• Support the VP Operations in the implementation of best practices and procedures to support change management.
• Train and coach staff in the methodology for Project Management, Continuous Improvement, Change Management and Accelerated Delivery and Improvement.

Impact Assessment and Risk Mitigation:

• Conduct impact analyses to assess change readiness.
• Identify key stakeholders and potential risks or obstacles to change.
• Develop strategies to mitigate resistance and support successful transitions to BAU.
• Define, measure, analyze and monitor change activities, analytics and metrics, and report on performance and success of change efforts.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Post-secondary degree or certificate in Change Management, Project Management, Business and/or any other related field
• A minimum of 3-5 years of relevant practical experience
• Proven experience supporting change for complex mid to large-scale enterprise level projects
• Proven ability to make independent decisions quickly and effectively, while determining and considering impact on project
• Demonstrated success in outcome-oriented initiatives with a strong customer focus.
• Proven success handling multiple competing priorities with successful delivery within tight timelines.
• Demonstrated success in a hands-on working environment with proven storytelling, problem solving, and planning skills.
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools
• Excellent communication and persuasion skills, with the ability to articulate messages to a variety of audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally with the ability to influence others without authority.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain professional relationships with diverse stakeholders, up to and including the executive level.
• Acute business acumen and ability to diagnose/analyze organizational issues and challenges.
• Ability to problem-solve, make recommendations, and take appropriate action.
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

SAFEGUARDING

• Must adhere to Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding policy and protocols
• Must Complete Police Vulnerable Sector Screening.
• It is our individual and collective responsibility to ensure all children are protected from deliberate or unintentional acts that lead to the risk of, or actual, harm caused by our employees. Each employee shall be aware that there may be additional vulnerabilities facing children associated with their age, socio-economic background, disability, gender, racial heritage, religious belief, identity, sexual orientation or identity, and is committed to ensuring this does not form barriers to effective safeguarding.
• Each employee is committed to fostering and sustaining a safe environment through proactive, accessible, and effective approaches that seek to