Organizational Change Management, Lead

The Mitre Corporation•Fort Meade, MD

2d•$132,000 - $198,000•Onsite

About The Position

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. MITRE’s Organizational and Operational Performance L646 Department has an opening for an Organizational Change Management Lead to join our Department. L646 is seeking an individual with experience in Organizational Change Management (OCM), Workforce Strategy and Human Capital to support enterprise transformation initiatives across federal civilian, defense, homeland security, healthcare, and intelligence missions. The successful candidate will partner with technical, operational, and executive stakeholders to develop and execute organizational change strategies that enable successful adoption of new capabilities, technologies, organizational designs, business processes and build a mission ready-workforce. This role requires an individual who can integrate change management principles with systems engineering, digital modernization, and organizational transformation efforts while collaborating within highly interdisciplinary teams.

Requirements

8+ years of related experience with Bachelor’s degree (degree in Organizational Development, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, Human Resources, Communications, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Systems Engineering, or related field; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
Experience leading enterprise-wide or agency-wide transformation initiatives.
Experience advising senior leadership on change management initiatives.
Able to mentor staff and build organizational capability.
Experience applying one or more recognized change management methodologies, including Prosci ADKAR, Kotter, Bridges Transition Model , Burke Litwin Model
Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) Certification
Experience with workforce planning (e.g., supply analysis, workload/demand analysis, Human capital strategy, stakeholder analyses, organizational assessments, change impact assessments, readiness assessments, communication planning, and roadmap/implementation plan development.
Strong presentation and facilitation skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Active Top Secret Clearance
Quantitative analysis skills

Responsibilities

Support organizational change management workstreams supporting enterprise transformation programs.
Conduct organizational assessments to inform organizational change efforts.
Develop change management strategies, plans, and implementation roadmaps.
Conduct stakeholder analyses and organizational readiness assessments.
Conduct workforce analysis including workforce planning (i.e., supply analysis, workload /demand analysis and competency analysis)
Build human capital plans to close competency gaps, including training and development
Develop executive engagement and communication strategies.
Support organizational design efforts.
Design and facilitate workshops with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to identify pain points, brainstorm solutions, and identify actionable steps to achieve the desired future state.
Develop change impact assessments and adoption metrics.
Measure organizational adoption through qualitative and quantitative metrics.
Advise sponsors on organizational risks associated with modernization initiatives and collaborate on mitigation strategies to address.
Collaborate closely with systems engineers, digital transformation teams, human-centered designers, workforce strategists, human capital colleagues and program managers.
Provide strategic recommendations to senior government leaders regarding organizational readiness and workforce transformation.
Contribute to business development, proposal writing, and capability development activities.