Change Manager

Australian Citizens residing in Australia only respond.

• Contract start 03 July 2023 to 12 months, 12 months extensions.
• Australian Citizen, Canberra, Hybrid role.

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Overview
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is seeking an experienced Change Manager to lead and support business change activities for AMSA's Incident Response Management project as well as working with the CIO and IT Managers providing guidance and support on adhoc IT business as usual activities.
Reporting to the Director - ITS Projects, the Change Manager will work with the project sponsor, project board, project manager and project team as well as key business stakeholders/users and AMSA's internal communications team.
Duties will include, but are not limited to:
Identification and analysis of stakeholders likely to be impacted by change
Determining scope and impacts of business change, including development of business impact assessments
Conducting and facilitating change planning sessions, documenting outcomes and recommendations
Preparing vendor supplied training materials for delivery of training to AMSA staff
Assessing and facilitating business readiness
Providing change support through activities such as: communications, training and development, leadership support, stakeholder engagement and transition to BAU
Drafting of communications and change plans, including scheduled deliverables for approval by the project board, executive or other stakeholders as required
Implementation of Communications and Change Management plans
Pre and post go live support for business users
Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission.
Essential Criteria
Candidates MUST have experience in planning and conducting workplace and IT organisational change in Commonwealth organisations and programs, including multi-divisional change in smaller organisations (sub 500 staff) The candidate MUST have experience in facilitating change planning, including stakeholder identification, business impact analysis, change management planning and reporting The candidate MUST have exceptional communication skills and attention to detail with the development of both internal and external communications The candidate MUST have strong negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to develop strong relationships with peers, operational teams and executive management The candidate MUST have the ability to quickly upskill to work with new or changing IT systems and apply their relationship to business change events
Desirable Criteria
The candidate SHOULD have experience delivering change activities related to incident, emergency or first responder management The candidate SHOULD have experience developing and delivering Corporate communications for Commonwealth departments