Change Management Lead

Are you looking for a pivotal role focused on guiding and implementing complex organizational change to align with the company's new direction? Does the idea of defining and managing change by establishing strategies, communication plans, and training sound like a challenge you'd enjoy? Would you like to contribute to a seamless transition by ensuring effective support and alignment across a diverse group of employees? Our Environmental Remediation Management (ERM) team is looking for an effective leader to support our team as a Change Management Lead. If this role sounds like you, we want to hear from you! Apply today!

What will you be doing!

• Providing effective Operational Control Monitoring (OCM) in support of ERM's Mission Program Office and requirements established by the corporate Program Management Office covering all aspects of Project Management, Change Control, and Trends (forecasting).
• Applying a structured methodology and leading change management activities in complex and diverse project teams.
• Leveraging a change management methodology, process, and tools to create a strategy to support the adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.
• Leading communication efforts by enabling the design, development, and delivery management of key communications.
• Assessing the change impact by conducting complex impact analyses, assessing change readiness, and identifying key stakeholders.
• Leading training efforts with complex and diverse projects within the ERM Portfolio.
• Providing input, documenting requirements, and supporting the design and delivery of training programs.
• Completing change management assessments and providing the best solutions to complex issues during the rollout of improvements to existing or new processes.
• Identifying, analyzing, and preparing risk mitigation tactics, and managing anticipated and persistent resistance.
• Creating actionable deliverables for the core change management plans: Sponsor Plan, People Manager Plan, Communications Plan, and Training Plan.
• Creating actionable deliverables for any required 'Extend' plans, such as the Resistance Management Plan.
• Supporting and engaging senior leaders and consulting and coaching project teams, managers, and supervisors.
• Coordinating efforts with other specialists while supporting organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities.
• Integrate change management activities into the project plan.
• Evaluating and ensuring user readiness, managing stakeholders, tracking and reporting issues while defining and measuring success metrics, and monitoring change progress.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

• Education
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, Human Resources, or progressive demonstrable experience of implementing organizational change.
  • Preferred: Certification in Change Management (e.g., Prosci, CCMP).
• Experience
  • Proven experience in change management within a project management setting.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  • Excellent analytical skills, particularly in variance analysis and data interpretation.
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with various levels of the organization.
  • Ability to lead training programs and facilitate workshops.
  • Strategic thinking, high emotional intelligence, advanced problem-solving skills, and leadership skills.
  • Ability to work with different types of media channels for communications.
• Security Clearance Eligibility Required
  • Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3-5 years of verifiable history in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and/or the United Kingdom. CNL implements security screening in accordance with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's 'Standard on Security Screening' and the 'Policy on Government Security.'

Why CNL?

Does working with a team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for a clean and secure world speak to you? We're reinventing ourselves to be the pacesetters so we can lead the charge in solving the problems that matter, like building the next generation of clean nuclear and hydrogen energy solutions, developing new and better-targeted cancer treatments, and continuing to lead the world in environmental remediation.

We offer a complete total rewards package:

• Paid time off (vacation, sick, floater & personal);
• Benefits effective day one, that’s right, no waiting period;
• Tuition support;
• and a pension!

Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?

• Clean energy for today and tomorrow.
• Restore and protect the Environment.
• Contribute to the health of Canadians.

Location:

CNL’s Chalk River laboratory is nestled in the Ottawa Valley and affords our employees an environmentally pristine area with extensive forests, hills, and numerous small lakes. These support a variety of wildlife typical to the southern edge of the Canadian Shield. Many surrounding towns, such as Pembroke, Petawawa, and Deep River, provide unparalleled outdoor adventures at your doorstep! CNL works with employees across our Canadian locations to enable a hybrid workforce where possible. Our Hybrid employees work with their manager to establish expectations for when they will be on-site vs. working from home. CNL is committed to providing an atmosphere free from barriers that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion in achieving our mission. CNL welcomes and celebrates employees, stakeholders, and partners of all racial, cultural, and ethnic identities. Please read here for more on our DE&I Commitment. CNL also supports a workplace environment and corporate culture built on our Core Values: Respect, Teamwork, Accountability, Safety, Integrity, and Excellence. These values encourage equitable employment practices and career prospects, including accommodations for all employees. CNL is committed to being an equal-opportunity employer. If you require accommodation measures during any phase of the hiring process, please indicate via our ATS when applying. All information received regarding accommodation requests will be kept confidential. The Chalk River Laboratories site is located on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. As an organization, CNL recognizes and appreciates their historic connection to this place. CNL also recognizes the contributions that First Nations, Métis, Inuit and other Indigenous Peoples have made, both in shaping and strengthening this community in particular, and this province and country as a whole.

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