Organisational Change Manager

Job Description

Executive Ship Management (ESM) is looking into transforming their fleet safety culture and improving their record of performance in maritime safety.

To effectively lead the people-side of change and drive deep engagement with all key stakeholders, ESM is seeking a skilled and experienced Organisational Change Manager to join the team. The role will work directly with the Director, Fleet Safety to deliver highly effective and sustainable tactical change management solutions to business areas impacted by the improvements delivered under the strategy.

This role will work strategically to develop organisational change strategy and plan, and tactically to implement activities required to deliver the strategy and plan.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement an organisational change management strategy and plan to drive and successfully influence the successful implementation of it.
• Organisational change management strategy and plan to include all aspects of change analysis (stakeholders, change impact, communication and engagement requirements, leadership support, training and capability building, resistance management, change governance), planning and delivery, inclusive of feedback mechanisms to monitor and measure implementation progress.
• Working closely in partnership with the key stakeholders and teams, delivering and coordinating all organisational change and operational activities of the change management strategy and plan.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to build a coalition of change resources to manage business impacts and ensure concerns are well understood and proactively managed.
• Manage and coordinate all activities and initiatives identified and approved within the organisational change strategy and plan.
• Driving deployment and change adoption into the business, ensuring effective feedback activities to monitor and measure the effectiveness of change management interventions and report on progress, issues, and outcomes.

Job Requirements

• PROSCI Change Management Practitioner Certification or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Change Manager on enterprise projects or programs, demonstrating high levels of interpersonal effectiveness, excellent communication skills, stakeholder management, influencing and negotiating, change analysis and planning, and delivery and embedding change.
• Experience working in maritime or other high risk safety organisation (e.g. mining, processing).
• Experience delivering change using hybrid planned change and agile methodology
• Experience implementing multiple types of change (e.g. cultural, technology, process re-design, restructuring etc).
• Excellent planning and organising skills in managing and executing multiple concurrent workstreams of change with ability to set priorities and meet deadlines to ensure timely delivery of business outcomes.
• Highly experienced in developing multi-media information resources needed to support communication, engagement and building knowledge and capability.
• Occasional travel to operation sites, including international travel, may be required.