Organizational change management senior

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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Organizational and Operational Performance L646 Department has an opening for an Organizational Change Management Senior or Lead to join our Department. L646 is seeking an individual with experience in Organizational Change Management (OCM) to support enterprise transformation initiatives across federal civilian, defense, homeland security, healthcare, and intelligence missions. The successful candidate will partner with technical, operational, and executive stakeholders to develop and execute organizational change strategies that enable successful adoption of new capabilities, technologies, organizational designs, and business processes.

This role requires an individual who can integrate change management principles with systems engineering, digital modernization, and organizational transformation efforts while collaborating within highly interdisciplinary teams.

Depending on qualifications and experience, this position may be filled at the MTS 3 or MTS 4 level.

Key Responsibilities

• Support organizational change management workstreams supporting enterprise transformation programs.
• Conduct organizational assessments to inform organizational change efforts.
• Develop change management strategies, plans, and implementation roadmaps.
• Conduct stakeholder analyses and organizational readiness assessments.
• Develop executive engagement and communication strategies.
• Support organizational design efforts.
• Design and facilitate workshops with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to identify pain points, brainstorm solutions, and identify actionable steps to achieve the desired future state.
• Develop change impact assessments and adoption metrics.
• Measure organizational adoption through qualitative and quantitative metrics.
• Advise sponsors on organizational risks associated with modernization initiatives and collaborate on mitigation strategies to address.
• Collaborate closely with systems engineers, digital transformation teams, human-centered designers, workforce strategists, human capital colleagues and program managers.
• Provide strategic recommendations to senior government leaders regarding organizational readiness and workforce transformation.
• Contribute to business development, proposal writing, and capability development activities.

Required Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Development, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, Human Resources, Communications, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Systems Engineering, or related field; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

Demonstrated experience supporting organizational change initiatives.

Experience applying one or more recognized change management methodologies, including:

• Prosci ADKAR
• Kotter
• Bridges Transition Model
• Burke Litwin Model

Experience with:

• Stakeholder analyses
• Organizational assessments
• Change impact assessments
• Readiness assessments
• Communication planning
• Roadmap/implementation plan development

Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S. Government security clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements for a clearance, U.S Citizenship is required.

This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in workforce strategy and human capital

Strong presentation and facilitation skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Top Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$106,000 - $132,500 - $159,000 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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