Change Management & Strategic Communications Consultant

Cadmus International Limited - Oklahoma City, OK

Full-time - Mid Level

Oklahoma City, OK

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About the position

The Change Management & Strategic Communications Consultant at Cadmus will support federal clients in modernizing and implementing long-term changes across a large IT organization. This role focuses on facilitating organizational changes, developing strategic communications, and ensuring stakeholder engagement through various initiatives. The consultant will work collaboratively with the change management team to prepare stakeholders for upcoming changes and create communication tools to support these transitions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a point of contact for clients and members of the project team
• Coordinate and manage tasked assignments
• Apply understanding of change management processes and tools to create/develop change management plans and execute campaigns to facilitate user adoption of new and existing systems
• Develop and execute Strategic Communications Plans, including strategy, stakeholder identification, messaging and measurement, for initiatives of various sizes and complexity
• Draft client-facing materials such as emails, memos, newsletters, Teams posts, surveys and other items
• Support client and project team in fostering opportunities to align stakeholders and prepare teams for upcoming changes (technology, process) and project success
• Plan and facilitate recurring activities including monthly reports, program-wide team meetings
• Support client meetings: prepare materials, capture and distribute notes and action items
• Participate in internal Team meetings, track deliverable status, issues, and risks; Support team members

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field and a minimum of eight years of professional experience
• Experience with the people side of change, including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organization structures
• A clear understanding of how to apply a change management process and tools to create employee/user adoption and engagement, experience with large-scale organizational change efforts desired
• Comfortable with being a credible source of advice to clients at various levels of authority on organizational effectiveness and design, leadership
• Political savvy and the ability to develop strong relationships as a trusted advisor with senior leaders, government managers, and contractor partners
• Experience coaching leaders and project teams to help them be effective change sponsors
• Ability to lead and facilitate others to move toward a common vision or goal
• Proven experience supporting the design, development, delivery and management of strategic communications
• Consistent track record developing, measuring and demonstrating adoption of data-centric change metrics
• Organized seamlessly managed strategic tasks (developing strategic plans, briefing client executives on recommendations) as well as tactical tasks (preparing PowerPoint briefings, recording meeting outcomes) as needed
• Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle
• Organizational and prioritization skills to manage multiple projects, clients, and tasks
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Word, and Excel) and a gift for creating briefings and documents that tell a compelling, relevant and data-driven story
• Experience with consulting, including government consulting a plus
• Experience in IT and technology deployment, HR programs, professional services firms and/or government a plus
• Change Management, Project Management Professional (PMP) and/or facilitation certifications desired
• Candidates must be able to obtain government security clearance - US Citizenship Required

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in IT and technology deployment
• Experience with consulting, including government consulting
• Change Management, Project Management Professional (PMP) and/or facilitation certifications

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Company paid disability and life insurance
• 401(k) program
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid holidays
• Voluntary time off (VTO)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Adoption assistance program
• Various bonus programs