Organizational Change Management, Lead

Location: McLean, Virginia; Fort Meade - Annapolis Junction, Maryland

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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Organizational and Operational Performance L646 Department has an opening for an Organizational Change Management Lead to join our Department. L646 is seeking an individual with experience in  Organizational Change Management (OCM), Workforce Strategy and Human Capital 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, business processes and build a mission ready-workforce.

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.

Roles & 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.
• Conduct workforce analysis including workforce planning (i.e., supply analysis, workload /demand analysis and competency analysis)
• Build human capital plans to close competency gaps, including training and development
• 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of related experience with Bachelor’s degree (degree in Organizational Development, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, Human Resources, Communications, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Systems Engineering, or related field; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide or agency-wide transformation initiatives.
• Experience advising senior leadership on change management initiatives.
• Able to mentor staff and build organizational capability.
  • Experience applying one or more recognized change management methodologies, including Prosci ADKAR, Kotter, Bridges Transition Model , Burke Litwin Model
• Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) Certification
• Experience with workforce planning (e.g., supply analysis, workload/demand analysis, Human capital strategy, stakeholder analyses, organizational assessments, change impact assessments, readiness assessments, communication planning, and roadmap/implementation plan development.
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 3 days on site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret Clearance
• Quantitative analysis skills

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

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