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Change Management Advisor - Oil & Gas
Location: Calgary (preferred), Edmonton or Toronto
Contract: 12 month initially, likely extension

This role supports a transformation initiative and provides change management support to coordinate Enterprise Asset Management activities and cross-functional initiative insights to effectively manage the people side of change. This work includes identifying the barriers to change, participating in the creation of plans and activities to increase employee adoption, and awareness in the most efficient and effective manner to drive greater ROI and mitigate project risks to achieve results.
The Advisor EAM Change Management will work collaboratively with EAM, Business Unit Asset Management teams and key stakeholders.
This will require partnership, negotiation, and collaboration with many stakeholders across the enterprise.
Accountabilities:

• Actively tracks feedback/insights gathered from key stakeholders and affected employees to contribute to the creation of change management plans, communication message/toolkits and training needs
• Responsible for the development and execution of detailed design, development and active engagement of multi-level, two-way communication and change management plans, supporting the creation of communication messages/toolkits, and tracking of required training content and targeted areas of focus.
• Assists in the overall creation of communication plans, sponsor roadmap, coaching plans, training plans and resistance management for effective transition and increased user adoption of the new systems.
• Identifies and escalates issues, risks, and areas of concern to Team Lead, EAM Change Management in a timely manner.
• Develop strong, credible relationships with key client stakeholders.
• Responsible for change management support of multiple work streams of the strategic imperatives within the EAM program.
• Identify, analyze, and prepare risk mitigation and anticipated resistance management tactics.
• Provides change management support as required by EAM team members
• Working collaboratively with EAM team and key stakeholders to assess change impacts, identifying risks, who is affected by the change (e.g., departments/groups), type of change, magnitude of change, areas of resistance, and creating resistance management plans including training considerations, employee feedback, corrective actions, transition, and sustainment considerations to manage the change.
• Working collaboratively with the EAM and BU AM team members to support the change management activities by applying structured methodology and ensuring alignment with cross functional project activities.

Scope:

• Operates in an extremely complex environment with multiple stakeholders spanning across many enterprise functions and BUs.
• Accountable for change management details and information impacting all EAM, BU AM and Enterprise objectives.
• This role will play a critical role in ensuring EAM meets its five year strategy to ensure our assets are safe, reliable and profitable.

Skills:
Required:

• Related university degree and 4-5 plus years' experience OR equivalent mix of formal education and demonstrated results in planning, developing, and implementing change management activities.
• Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships
• Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges
• Management of confidential and sensitive information, with utmost integrity, trust, and privacy.
• Ability to work effectively at all levels in an organization
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office suite; Adobe; SharePoint
• A solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process
• Forward looking with a holistic approach
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
• Organized with natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
• Exemplary organizational skills
• Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
• Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle
• Exceptional communication skills: written, verbal, and active listening
• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively

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