Leadership Development: Operations and Change Management Assistant Director

Location: Anywhere in Country

 

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. 

 

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.  Join EY and help to build a better working world.

 

At EY, Leadership Development is now more crucial than ever. The Leadership Development function is dedicated to building leaders for a better working world by igniting the full leadership potential within every individual, fostering holistic, visionary leaders who thrive today and are equipped to boldly face the challenges of tomorrow.  The Leadership Development team ties a wide range of learning initiatives, assessments, coaching and mentoring programs together with a powerful foundation that defines EY leadership culture and meets our critical business goals.

 

The opportunity

As the Leadership Development: Operations and Change Management Assistant Director, you’ll be responsible for working with various stakeholders (including Leadership Development Leads, EY Global, other EY US Talent functions and business leaders) to develop and maintain a clear program and project management strategy, ensure consistency of messaging and communications, while developing change initiatives that will ensure adoption and use of leadership development programs. 

 

Your key responsibilities

• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of leadership development projects and key initiatives, ensuring timely completion, adherence to scope, and budget compliance
• Support Program Leads across the leadership development function by developing materials, ensuring project delivery, promoting initiatives and quantifying the impact
• Lead leadership development change management initiatives including driving engagement, stakeholder communication, training, and ensuring smooth adoption
• Engage with Key Stakeholders to gather requirements, manage expectations and ensure alignment on project goals and initiatives.
• Provide insight and support to ensure that new and existing programs are adaptable to change and can be implemented effectively within project timelines
• Establish metrics and deploy measurement programs for program effectiveness and stakeholder satisfaction
• Work with Global teams in multiple time zones, which may require work/conducting calls/meetings at non-standard hours. Some travel may be required
• Overtime expected but varies depending on deadlines

 

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to develop and leverage relationships with various stakeholders to understand Leadership Development proficiency/journey needs and create appropriate project and change plans
• Experience developing recommendations for strategic direction and/or ability to assist in problem solving
• Proactively anticipate and clearly define risks/problems, and identify possible/apparent root causes
• Demonstrate creative and independent thinking to develop strategy and next steps, including leveraging resources and tools effectively to drive participation, with continuing enhancements
• Leverage effective project and change management techniques to help advance initiatives and achieve desired outcomes
• Ability to adapt quickly to change, build consensus across diverse, often global, groups, and organize teams
• Ability to manage multiple large, complex projects, processes and/or initiatives
• Strong problem solving and negotiation/mediation and influencing skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as listening and interpretation skills
• Strong Microsoft Office suite skills (specifically PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Viva Engage)
• Strong visual storytelling and presentation skills. Ability to leverage data to support key messages
• Demonstrated teamwork and leadership skills

 

To qualify you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline

• 8-10 years of experience in a medium-to-large environment, performing business analysis, and project/change management, with a minimum of 3 years in a learning and development environment preferred
• Proven track record of creating and executing learning and development strategies and programs w