Project & Change Manager, Strategy & Planning (1-year Contract)
Save the Children believes every child has the right to a future. In Canada and around the world, we do whatever it takes – every day and in times of crisis – to support children to fulfill their rights to a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. With over 100 years of experience, Save the Children is the world’s first and leading independent children’s organization – transforming lives and the future we share.
The Impact You Will Make:
Reporting to the VP, Operations, the Change Manager, Strategy & Planning partners with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to develop a comprehensive change management plan that supports implementation of strategic priorities and initiatives, ensuring the impact from a people, process, system, and data lens is understood and strategies are in place to help staff navigate the change. This role will be responsible for change management for SCC’s multi-year transformation strategy, comprising of multiple workstreams and individual projects.
This role is responsible for executing comprehensive change strategies and deliverables for specific projects that most significantly impact our staff and will maintain strong stakeholder engagement and communication plans with key stakeholders to ensure they understand the future state and change benefit, impact, and deployment methodology. The Project and Change Manager, Strategy & Planning will collaboratively and cross functionally develop and manage execution of a change management plan supporting strategic transformation.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Project Management:
Work with the SLT to ensure each strategic priority initiative includes a clear definition of scope and objectives and a roadmap for execution that considers resources, timelines and deliverables. Help teams to identify and monitor dependencies across initiatives, ensuring delays to implementation are mitigated.Change Management Strategy and Planning:
Design and lead a change management plan of SCC’s multi-year strategy and specific projects within it, leveraging a structured change management methodology, process, and tools.Ensure a strategy is in place and integrated to support teams to accelerate change. This will include but is not limited to a communications plan that threads the compelling case for change for key work, shares high-level benefits and monitors change fatigue and adoption. Partner with leadership to identify specific change management capacity building needs within teams. Ensure a comprehensive view of the change impact and interdependencies across initiatives/projects. Partner with SLT leads to identify, manage, and monitor interdependencies. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and effective communication during change implementation and ensure best practices are consistently applied throughout the organization.Communication and Training:
Develop and execute key communications related to change initiatives. Identify and work with COO to implement best practices and procedures to support change management. Train and coach staff in the methodology for Project Management, Continuous Improvement, Change Management and Accelerated Delivery and Improvement.Impact Assessment and Risk Mitigation:
Conduct impact analyses to assess change readiness. Identify key stakeholders and potential risks or obstacles to change. Develop strategies to mitigate resistance and facilitate successful transitions.Define, measure, analyze and monitor change activities, analytics and metrics, and report on performance and success of change efforts.Qualifications include (but are not limited to):
Post-secondary degree or certificate in Change Management, Project Management, Business and/or any other related fieldA minimum of 5-7 years of relevant practical experience Proven experience leading change for complex mid to large-scale enterprise level projects Proven ability to make independent decisions quickly and effectively, while determining and considering impact on project Demonstrated success in self-directed and outcome-oriented initiatives with a strong customer focus. Proven success handling multiple competing priorities with successful delivery within tight timelines. Demonstrated success in a hands-on working environment with proven storytelling, problem solving, and planning skills. Professional proficiency in MS Office suite Knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and toolsExcellent communication and persuasion skills, with the ability to articulate messages to a variety of audiences.Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally with the ability to influence others without authority. Demonstrated ability to build and maintain professional relationships with diverse stakeholders, up to and including the executive level.Acute business acumen and ability to diagnose/analyze organizational issues and challenges.Ability to problem-solve, make recommendations, and take appropriate action. Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations.Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.WHAT WE OFFER
This position salary range between $93,843.88 - $110,838.38 CAD depending on skills and experience. In addition to this, our employees will have the following package of additional benefits:
Comprehensive benefits package for you and your dependents available in three months after employment. Coordinated benefits for your partner paid by Save the Children Canada.Hybrid workplace, and flexible work hours to support employee wellbeing and productivity.Confidential Employee Assistance Program services available to you and your dependents from your first day of employment.Discounted rate for a GoodLife membership.Organization-wide membership with Headspace. 3 weeks of annual leave.In addition to annual leave, we offer a December 25 - January 1 office closure (SAVE Days) so we can all recharge simultaneously.Paid 3-day-personal days. Paid 2-day-float days. Paid 10-day-sick leave.Parental leave top-up.Employer contributions to group pension plan. Learning and development opportunities and specialized training.HOW TO APPLY?
If you are interested in this position, please visit https://www.savethechildren.ca/ and submit your resume and cover letter. Internal candidates, please apply via ADP by 5:00pm EST June 7, 2024. Applications will be reviewed on ongoing basis. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
It is our individual and collective responsibility to ensure all children are protected from deliberate or unintentional acts that lead to the risk of, or actual, harm caused by our employees. Each employee shall be aware that there may be additional vulnerabilities facing children associated with their age, socio-economic background, disability, gender, racial heritage, religious belief, identity, sexual orientation or identity, and is committed to ensuring this does not form barriers to effective safeguarding.
Each employee is committed to fostering and sustaining a safe environment through proactive, accessible, and effective approaches that seek to prevent and respond to any harm to the children including but not limited to sexual exploitation and abuse. SCC and all its employees will take all reasonable steps to make itself safe, both as an organisation and in the conduct of all aspects of its day-to-day operations of emergency, humanitarian, developmental, policy, campaigning and administrative work.
SCC is committed to providing accessible employment practices that are in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (‘AODA’). If you require accommodation for disability during any stage of the recruitment process, please notify Human Resources (416) 221-5501