Senior Organizational Change Manager

Technology & Innovation | Government of Alberta

Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Work Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:15 AM–4:30 PM Alberta Time
Employment Type: Contract

About the Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Senior Organizational Change Manager / Change Management Specialist to support the Government of Alberta's Procurement System Modernization initiative.

The successful candidate will work within the 1GX Business Excellence – Communications, Organizational Change Management (OCM), and Training function to develop and execute change management strategies that enable employees and stakeholders to successfully transition from current-state processes and technologies to future-state solutions.

This role is ideal for a senior change professional with strong experience supporting ERP transformations, organizational change, stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, training, and adoption in complex enterprise environments.

The successful candidate will work closely with project sponsors, program and project teams, operational groups, vendors, business stakeholders, and the 1GX Change Network to ensure changes are effectively communicated, adopted, sustained, and continuously improved.

Role Overview

Reporting to the Manager, 1GX Business Excellence – Communications, OCM, and Training , the Senior Organizational Change Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing change management and communication strategies and deliverables that support successful adoption and sustained use of 1GX capabilities.

The role will support both:

- New project implementations
- Ongoing 1GX operations




- Enhancements and optimization initiatives
- Business process changes
- Technology implementations
- Adoption and sustainment activities

The successful candidate will help ensure that new technology, processes, and operating models are introduced in a way that is understood, accepted, adopted, and sustained by impacted stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Change Management Strategy & Planning

- Develop and implement comprehensive change management strategies, plans, and approaches .
- Apply recognized change management methodologies, tools, frameworks, and best practices.
- Assess organizational impacts and develop strategies to address identified changes.
- Conduct change impact assessments and gap analyses .
- Develop transition strategies to support stakeholders moving from current-state to future-state processes and technologies.
- Define change success measures and monitor adoption and change progress.
- Identify and proactively manage change-related risks, issues, dependencies, and barriers.

Stakeholder Engagement

- Conduct stakeholder identification, segmentation, and analysis.
- Assess stakeholder needs, influence, readiness, and potential resistance.
- Develop and execute stakeholder engagement strategies.




- Build strong relationships with executives, management, business teams, operational teams, project teams, vendors, and end users.
- Facilitate stakeholder discussions, workshops, meetings, and working sessions.
- Build alignment and consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Proactively engage stakeholders to support ongoing 1GX adoption, sustainment, and optimization .

Communications

- Develop and implement comprehensive communication plans throughout the project lifecycle.
- Create compelling, audience-specific communications for executives, management, business teams, and end users.
- Develop presentations, briefing materials, newsletters, announcements, FAQs, talking points, and other communication assets.
- Deliver presentations and briefings to stakeholders at various organizational levels.
- Translate complex technology and business changes into explicit, concise, and engaging messages.
- Ensure impacted audiences receive timely and relevant information throughout the transformation.
- Use communication strategically to support adoption and address employee expectations, concerns, and needs.

Readiness, Training & Adoption

- Conduct business and stakeholder readiness assessments .
- Develop readiness programs and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Identify training and enablement requirements resulting from organizational and technology changes.
- Support training strategy and development activities.
- Develop resistance management strategies and intervention plans.
- Monitor adoption and identify areas requiring additional support or reinforcement.

📌 Senior Organizational Change Manager I Govt of Alberta (Edmonton)
🏢 Analyst Technical Solutions
📍 Edmonton