Location: Remote / EST based preferred
Preferred Certifications - CCMP, Prosci Change Practitioner, PMBOK, PMI Prior experience managing state government projects is highly desired
Hiring highly skilled Change Manager / Project Manager / Program Manager to lead organizational readiness and staff adoption for a multi-year modernization of the State health data infrastructure. This project focuses on modernizing data ingestion, implementing automated data governance, and migrating major datasets into a Statewide Data Lake.
The successful candidate will ensure smooth transitions from legacy systems to a modernized, Agile-driven environment, driving cultural alignment and project transparency across internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Change Strategy & Planning: Define how change is introduced, communicated, and reinforced across the GMCB, with specific focus on external audience readiness.
- Stakeholder Management: Conduct stakeholder mapping and impact assessments to identify affected groups and develop tailored support plans, including RACI matrices and process-change heatmaps.
- Agile Communications: Sequence messaging by audience and channel, perfectly timed to the program s release lifecycle and "DataOps" sprints. This includes creating release notes, FAQs, infographics, and executive briefings.
- Training & Competency Building: Build and deliver role-based training curricula, short videos, and live workshops to increase staff competency in new platforms (Azure DevOps, Power BI) and governance practices.
- Legacy Retirement Support: Develop cutover and legacy retirement playbooks to reduce risk when deprecating old processes and introducing governed pipelines.
- Adoption Tracking: Utilize Power BI and Azure DevOps (ADO) to monitor adoption and readiness KPIs, such as training completion, pipeline reliability, and governance throughput.
- Governance Integration: Work with Scrum Masters and Data Governance Managers to embed change management tasks and governance requirements (lineage, glossary) into the "Definition of Done" for every sprint.
Qualifications
- Certification: Change Management certification is highly preferred (e.g., CCMP or Prosci Change Practitioner).
- Experience: Proven experience in large-scale organizational change, particularly in health data infrastructure or digital transformation within a government context.
- Methodology: Strong familiarity with Agile practices and PMI/PMBOK project management methodologies.
- Tools:
- Expertise: Azure DevOps (ADO), SharePoint, and Microsoft Office Suite. Not as developer but more as PM/Change Manager/Program Manager
- Proficiency: Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps. Not as developer but more as PM/Change Manager/Program Manager
- Familiarity: Cloud data environments (AWS, Azure Databricks, Snowflake) and data governance tools (Microsoft Purview).
- Skills: Exceptional facilitation, executive reporting, and strategic communication capabilities.
Change Management, Prosci, CCMP, Azure DevOps, ADO, Data Governance, Agile, Scrum, Health Data Infrastructure, Stakeholder Mapping, Communication Plan, Training Development, Digital Transformation, Project Management, PMBOK, Program Manager, Agile Change Management
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