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Change Management Specialist - SME
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What they do
A Business Change Manager designs and implements strategies that facilitate smooth transition during organizational changes within workplaces. Responsibilities include identifying risks of change, developing training plans, monitoring progresses and implementing improvements to change plans. They may work with key stakeholders and project managers to ensure changes align with corporate strategic objectives.
$126,120 / year median in Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia)
Job Description
- Develop and execute an organizational change management (OCM) strategy and roadmap aligned to the release plan.
- Conduct stakeholder analysis, change impact assessments, and readiness assessments for each modernization increment.
- Design and deliver communications plans, training curricula, job aids, quick-reference guides, and demonstration sessions.
- Lead knowledge transfer to federal staff and incoming support teams, including documentation, walkthroughs, and code/architecture handoff sessions.
- Define and track adoption metrics, resistance indicators, and post-deployment feedback loops; adjust the plan on evidence.
- Coordinate release communications with content, service desk, and operations so external users are informed ahead of user-facing change.
- Support release/change advisory processes and ensure change records, approvals, and configuration baselines are complete and audit-ready.
- Advise leadership on sequencing and risk where organizational readiness constrains technical delivery.
- Align organizational change activities with DOL Agile/SAFe sprint and monthly release cadence, ServiceNow change processes, transition-in/out activities, and Government communications protocols.
- Maintain training, adoption, communications, and knowledge-transfer artifacts in Government-approved repositories and ensure deliverables meet Section 508 requirements. Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years in organizational change management, with significant experience on enterprise IT modernization or platform migration programs.
- Demonstrated command of a formal OCM methodology (Prosci/ADKAR, Kotter, or equivalent).
- Experience building and delivering training and communications for both internal staff and public-facing user populations.
- Ability to operate inside Agile/SAFe release cadences and align change activity to sprint and release increments.
- Strong executive communication - able to brief senior government stakeholders and translate technical change into business impact.
- Experience with ITSM change/release processes (ServiceNow or equivalent).
- Experience planning transition-in/transition-out, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness for multi-year federal IT programs.
- Working knowledge of accessibility requirements for training, communications, and other ICT deliverables. Preferred Qualifications
- Prosci Change Management Certification.
- Federal government program experience.
- Background supporting legacy-to-cloud or legacy-to-CMS transitions.
- Experience introducing AI-enabled capabilities and managing associated workforce adoption concerns.
Our Profile:
We are an IT company with a unique mission-to make people the center of every federal IT solution. Our technologists have always gone the extra mile to help our federal clients succeed. And over the years, we saw a growing disconnect in how federal IT initiatives were built and managed.Time after time, programs failed because the focus was on the tools and products and not the people using them. Learn More . NuAxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation. Learn More about our Benefits and Culture! #NAI #DICE group id: 10243825 Apply now