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At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Your impact
As an Organizational Change Management (OCM) Lead, you will play a pivotal role in a global initiative focused on driving cross-company change strategies for Global Delivery. This role offers a unique opportunity to partner closely with senior leadership across the organization, providing proactive and strategic guidance to increase adoption of Global Delivery-focused initiatives and ensure successful outcomes.
You will be responsible for key components of research, planning, and monitoring of change strategies that underpin the broader change portfolio within Jacobs. You'll support teams and individuals through transformational change, helping them adapt to new ways of working. As part of a high-performing team, you will be challenged and inspired as we deliver a significant step change in performance to enable ‘best in class’ change delivery. You’ll collaborate with Organizational Change Leads, communications, training, and other key stakeholders to assess change impacts, gauge business readiness, and define and monitor critical success metrics.
The successful candidate will
- Have knowledge of a structured methodology to develop components of a consistent change strategy to meet the unique needs of each change initiative.
- Be proactive in partnering and challenging senior leadership to achieve adoption.
- Collaborate with staff across corporate functions, lines of business and programmes to aid the development of strategies in support of projects and initiatives.
- Facilitate and create deliverables related to leadership and sponsor engagement, identifying key stakeholders, conducting impact analysis, change champion strategy, resistance management strategy, learning needs analysis, assessing change readiness, and identifying metrics to measure change effectiveness and ensure sustainability.
- Be aware of change management best practices and engage in learning and coaching with other change practitioners in the organization.
- Develop key metrics and utilize research to support change initiatives.
- Work within a matrix managed team including change, communications, training and others.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills.
- Contribute fully to the organizational change team.
Here's what you'll need
- Relevant qualification, e.g. ONE of Prosci ADKAR1 Model APMG - Change Management or equivalent
- 10+ years’ experience in Transformational Change, Organizational Change Management etc
- Excellent knowledge of the principles of change management
- Excellent knowledge of stakeholder management on complex/sensitive programmes understanding how change impacts various groups differently
- Excellent interpersonal and communication (including presentation) skills
- Ability to develop productive working relationships across the organisations and to work with integrity and honesty
- Strong organizational skills, and an awareness of the project and programme context and discipline
- Experience of monitoring key metrics of change on transformational change programmes
- Ability and willingness to be flexible and work with global teams and stakeholders
At Jacobs we value people. Having the right balance of belonging, career and lifestyle enables us to consistently deliver and exceed clients’ expectations.
Working alongside industry leaders, you will have the opportunity to develop your career working on key projects in an environment which encourages collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation. To support your professional growth, Jacobs flexible working arrangements, extended leave options and a host of social, health and wellbeing events and initiatives will underpin our commitment to you.
At Jacobs it’s all about what you do, not where you are, which counts!
We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.
Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.
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