Senior Consultant

Description

JPI is seeking a Senior Consultant to support the United States Coast Guard (USCG) Mission Support Integration Office (DCMS-5) in providing change management subject matter expertise and assistance to major organizational transformation initiatives across the Deputy Commandant for Mission Support (DCMS). 

As Team Lead, you will be responsible for overall project management for the call order, overseeing the daily activities of the team, and setting priorities in coordination with the contract manager and federal client. Focus for this role is long-range planning, maintenance of the master schedule, and both technical and subject matter quality control for project deliverables. 

This position is based at the USCG St. Elizabeth’s campus in Washington, D.C and is combination telework/in-person. This call order requires 1-2 days per week in the office.  

At JPI, we strive to empower our people and excel for our clients. We hold ourselves to high standards and prioritize our values of being one team with unwavering integrity. We are motivated by our mission and driven to deliver solutions that exceed expectations. Will you join us? 

The contract support team will: 

• Support in progress organizational transformation initiatives with change management expertise, at the direction of the federal client. 
• Develop a change management office playbook for managing change across the Mission Support enterprise. 
• Ensure change efforts align with overarching USCG and DCMS strategic priorities. 
• Conduct assessments and analysis as required and directed to support change processes. 
• Implement Prosci change management best practices within the change management office and support their implementation within organizational transformation initiatives. 
• Provide guidance, direction, and change management expertise by defining and implementing requirements for project-specific change management initiatives. 
• Develop approaches to evaluate the effectiveness of training and organizational development projects. 
• Serve as a senior technical change management specialist on all projects managed and related matters. 
• Discuss both strategic and tactical information as it relates to the unique needs of diverse stakeholder groups. 
• Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, break high level information into details and distinguish user requests from underlying true needs. 
• Define, develop, and evaluate performance metrics to obtain organizational unit success. 
• Negotiate with multiple stakeholders who have competing or conflicting objectives to ensure cohesive and reachable joint measures of success. 
• Lead a range of process improvement activities, which includes planning, performing, and implementing process improvement initiatives. 
• Maintain all change management processes and documentation. 
• Perform change management audits to verify compliance with policy, procedure, and requirements. 
• Assist customers with project-level change management plans. 

Requirements

 Providing project management support to include: 

• Establishing project management best practices and maintaining project management tools/processes for clients. 
• Supervising/leading teams of 5-10 people in executing specialized work. 

Administering project-specific change management initiatives to include: 

• Conducting organizational needs assessments to determine organizational readiness for change. 
• Developing communication plans, implementation plans, transition plans, and resistance plans for change management initiatives. 
• Educating stakeholders regarding the benefits and impacts of recommended change management initiatives. 
• Leading major change management initiatives for policy and/or systems projects. 

 Qualifications 

• Project Management Professional (PMP) and Prosci Change Management Practitioner certifications preferred. 
• Bachelor’s degree in business, or related field. Master's degree plus.
• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience.
• Experience supporting federal clients.
• Active security clearance/ability to obtain.

JPI is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.