Change Management Consultant

Standard Job Description

The Change Management Consultant supports organizational, process, technology, and workforce changes by preparing, equipping, and supporting impacted individuals and groups to adopt new ways of working. This role partners with program managers, business leaders, people managers, and technical teams to ensure change initiatives achieve intended business outcomes, adoption, and sustained use—measured by employee adoption, utilization, proficiency, and sustained results, not simply solution deployment.

Standard Job Description

The Change Management Consultant supports organizational, process, technology, and workforce changes by preparing, equipping, and supporting impacted individuals and groups to adopt new ways of working. This role partners with program managers, business leaders, people managers, and technical teams to ensure change initiatives achieve intended business outcomes, adoption, and sustained use—measured by employee adoption, utilization, proficiency, and sustained results, not simply solution deployment. This role oversees operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, the project team, and line management. It reviews project and budget status, manages schedules, prepares status reports, assesses issues, develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals, and establishes mechanisms for monitoring progress and intervention/problem-solving with project managers, line managers, and clients. It also assists with special projects and initiatives to support the Global Sustainment organization.

Change strategy and execution

• Develop and execute scaled change management strategies using the Prosci 3-Phase Process
• Assess change characteristics, organizational readiness, stakeholder impacts, and people-related risks
• Define adoption/usage outcomes using the ADKAR® Model: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement
• Create, maintain, and implement integrated change management plans (sponsor, communications, people manager, training, resistance management, reinforcement)
• Integrate change activities into program plans, schedules, milestones, governance, and risk-management processes

Leadership and stakeholder engagement

• Coach sponsors on the ABCs of sponsorship: active/visible participation, building a coalition of support, direct communication with employees
• Equip people managers for CLARC roles: Communicator, Liaison, Advocate, Resistance Manager, Coach
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, impact assessments, readiness discussions, and leadership alignment sessions
• Build productive relationships across program, engineering, operations, HR, IT, learning, communications, and customer-facing teams

Communications, training and adoption

• Partner with communications and training teams to develop audience-specific messages, materials, learning requirements, and reinforcement mechanisms
• Ensure communications explain purpose, impacts, timing, expectations, and “what’s in it for me”
• Support training needs analysis and readiness; ensure training enables Knowledge and Ability, not just substitute for broader change management
• Identify, analyze, and respond to resistance; elevate persistent barriers appropriately

Measurement and sustainment

• Establish and monitor change performance measures: ADKAR outcomes, readiness, training completion, adoption, utilization, proficiency, reinforcement indicators
• Conduct ADKAR Assessments; identify first ADKAR Barrier Point for impacted groups
• Recommend course corrections based on adoption data, stakeholder feedback, project changes, and emerging risks
• Support transition to operational ownership, reinforcement planning, lessons learned, and change management closeout

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in organizational development, business, communications, human resources, project management, or a related field.
• Experience in organizational change management, program delivery, transformation, consulting, organizational effectiveness, communications, training, or related roles.
• Experience supporting medium-to-large, cross-functional initiatives involving process, technology, organizational, policy, or operating-model change.
• Working knowledge of change-management principles and individual adoption concepts, such as the ADKAR® Model.
• Experience developing communications, stakeholder materials, presentations, or training-support content.
• Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative feedback and translate findings into practical actions.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and relationship-management skills.
• Ability to work across technical and business teams in a deadline-driven environment.

Desired Skills

• Prosci Certification Program completion or equivalent formal change-management training.
• Experience supporting digital transformation, engineering, cyber, supply-chain, enterprise-system, or organizational redesign initiatives.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Teams.
• Experience in a government, DoD, aerospace, defense, or other regulated environment.
• Familiarity with program-management disciplines, Agile delivery, or integrated master schedules.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $104900.00 - $194700.00

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Benefits offered:

Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.

• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
• For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.