We are seeking an OCM Lead who will partner with our client’s OCM Center of Excellence (OCM CoE) and Agile Project Management Office (APMO) to support the transformation of organizational and workflow practices from Waterfall to Agile.
Combining Change Management and Agile expertise, the APMO OCM Lead will be responsible for agility culture change, communications, engagement, training, and adoption monitoring, measurement, and reporting.
What You'll Do:
- Establish and implement a sustained approach to cultivate an Agile culture – lead the organization to not just “do” Agile, but “be” Agile.
- Develop and implement an Agile OCM Methodology including stakeholder assessments, change impact assessments, change readiness, communications and training plans, and adoption evaluations for Agile projects.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across the IT organization and various business areas – APMO Leaders, OCM CoE Leaders, Agile Coaches, OCM Leads, Product Owners, Product Managers, Scrum Masters, etc.
- Manage engagement and communications regarding Agile resources, events, and news through the Agility Portal and Agility Newsletter.
- Develop and implement metrics and scorecards to track and analyze the adoption and maturity of Agile ways of working across the organization.
- Coordinate, and deliver Agile Foundations training to introduce agile ways of working to new Agilists.
- Oversee the Agility Change Leaders Network - a collaboration of IT and business agility leaders to increase adoption of agile practices, behaviors, and mindsets.
- Design a Scrum Master development framework and manage Scrum Master Community of Practice.
- Participate in APMO Planning Increments, develop OCM workplan, and own OCM epics and stories.
- Leverage Agile collaboration and planning tools including AgilePlace and Jira.
What You Need:
- 10+ years’ experience in organizational change management.
- 5+ years’ experience in Agile ways of working (certifications preferred).
- Undergraduate degree or higher, preferably in an area of organizational or human behavior (business, education, communications, psychology, etc.)
- Experience leading the Agile transformation from Waterfall to Agile at a Fortune 1000 company or large public sector organization.
- Expert-level experience in change management methodology, principles, and best practices.
- Strong executive presence and the ability to work with and influence senior leaders.
- Comfort with ambiguity and strong ability to create order from chaos.
- Collaborative, hands-on style; demonstrated ability to create win-win solutions.
- Creativity and ability to imagine the best future for clients.
- Superior project management skills; demonstrated experience successfully managing a cross-functional or cross-departmental team on a complex project.
- Superior business writing and editing skills.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
- Significant experience working with people at all levels of an organization.
What We'd Love To See:
- Experience with a change management consulting firm or division.
- Learning and development consulting or instructional design experience.
- Big 4 consulting experience.
Who We Are
Emerson Human Capital Consulting Inc. is a change management consulting company with a passion for turning people potential into business performance. We are experts in behavior change. Clients call us when they need to transform, improve operations, deploy new strategy or technology, or enable employees to perform at a new level.
What We Do
Transformation: Achieving rapid, high-stakes change and creating change capability for the next ascent.
Change Management: Driving smooth, efficient implementation of any change, and securing sustained results.
Organization Design: Developing organization structures and roles to enable business strategy.
Learning & Development: Building the skills, knowledge, and tools people need for exceptional performance.
Communication: Ensuring people receive the right information at the right time.
Technology Change: Enabling the benefits of technology by influencing human performance.
Why Emerson?
We were the first US company with a large team of full-time employees specializing only in behavior change. We employ only experts, like you. We’re not an IT consultancy or an accounting firm that also has a specialized practice – critical behavior change is all we do.
We are thought leaders in human performance. For example, the Association for Talent Development published our book series, which covers some of our favorite principles, tips and lessons learned: The Change Book, The Learning & Development Book, and The Technology Change Book.
We deliver for the best. We are the choice of some of the most successful and well-known companies in the world. We don’t like to drop names, mostly because our lawyers won’t let us. But if we did, we could tell you about an iconic clothing brand, an oil and gas giant, a global leader in hospitality, and a company that makes really fast shoes. Just to not name a few.
What We Do
Emerson Human Capital Consulting helps our clients get the most out of a powerful asset – their people. We help organizations capture the benefit of their change initiatives. We don’t care what you’re launching – a new technology, product, service, market strategy, operating model – we’ll help you achieve the intended benefit sooner.
Why? Because we get your people on board fast, and ready to work.
How? We create change strategy. We help people internalize the new way of doing business, so they behave differently and successfully. We focus their attention and give them tools and information, so they know what to do, when and how. Then we build the means to sustain this new way of working. We do all these things at the organizational and individual level.
