Organizational Change Management Specialist

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

 

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

 

Working@AIS
At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Change Manager.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Develops detailed change plans, executes communications and training, identifies risks, and monitors effectiveness.

• Work & Complexity: Manages moderately complex projects, tailors approaches, and drives operational improvements.

• Quality & Independence: Maintains high standards, uses feedback for improvement, and makes decisions within project scope.

• Teamwork & Communication: Guides teams, mentors juniors, collaborates cross-functionally, and manages stakeholder communications.

• Consulting & Engagement: Offers technical recommendations, advises on process improvements, and contributes to policy development.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Organizational Change Management Specialist. Project Summary

AIS is seeking a mid-level Organizational Change Management (OCM) Specialist to support enterprise transformation initiatives driven by Microsoft 365 migration and modernization efforts. This role will help plan, coordinate, and execute change activities that enable user adoption, minimize disruption, and improve business outcomes across solutions including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, and Azure B2B collaboration capabilities. This person should be comfortable working alongside project managers, technical architects, engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders to drive successful transition and sustained adoption. 

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development and execution of organizational change management strategies for Microsoft 365 migration and collaboration modernization initiatives.  

• Assess change impacts across business units, user communities, support teams, and leadership stakeholders.  

• Develop stakeholder engagement plans tailored to impacted audiences, leadership groups, champions, and support organizations.  

• Create and maintain change artifacts including communication plans, impact assessments, readiness assessments, adoption roadmaps, stakeholder matrices, and feedback mechanisms.  

• Draft clear end-user communications for migrations, feature rollouts, policy changes, cutovers, and post-deployment support.  

• Design and coordinate user enablement materials such as quick reference guides, job aids, FAQs, training decks, adoption campaigns, and knowledge content.  

• Partner with technical and project teams to understand migration schedules, solution dependencies, risks, and user-facing impacts.  

• Support rollout and adoption of Microsoft 365 workloads, including Exchange Online migrations and mailbox-related change impacts; SharePoint Online modernization and document collaboration changes; Microsoft Teams adoption for chat, meetings, collaboration, and integrated workflows; Power Platform adoption, governance awareness, and business process transformation; and Azure B2B and external collaboration changes affecting guest access and cross-tenant sharing  

• Gather, analyze, and report adoption metrics, stakeholder feedback, training participation, and organizational readiness indicators.  

• Collaborate with service desk, operations, and support teams to ensure support readiness and smooth transition into steady-state operations.  

Required For This Opportunity

• Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Development, Communications, Business, Information Systems, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.  

• 2+ years of experience in organizational change management, user adoption, communications, training, or transformation delivery.  

• Hands-on experience supporting change initiatives tied to Microsoft 365 migration or digital workplace transformation.  

• Experience developing communication materials, training collateral, stakeholder plans, and end-user adoption content.  

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise migrations or phased rollout programs.  

• Familiarity with structured OCM methodologies such as Prosci, ADKAR, Kotter, or similar frameworks.  

• Experience working in regulated, security-conscious, or highly matrixed environments.  

• Experience building champions programs, pilot programs, or business readiness networks.  

• Familiarity with service transition, IT support models, and operational readiness planning.  

• Exposure to governance and compliance considerations associated with Microsoft 365 collaboration platforms.  

• Prosci certification or similar change management training is a plus.  

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $75,000-$113,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

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