Organization Change Management

Position: Organisation Change Management-SME Duration: 2 years Location: St Paul/Minneapolis, MN(Hybrid) Job Description; The candidate will provide expertise and support in transforming the IT operating model from a more traditional waterfall project management approach to an Agile-focused product management and DevOps frameworks. This modernization will be transformational in nature, impacting thousands of state employees volving changes for every aspect of the organization. Tasks/Deliverables:

• With the context of IT's scope of responsibility ,provide guidance for starting a product-centric operating model transformation, navigating through the transformation process, accomplishing the implementation, and evaluating its success while addressing the cultural environment and leadership engagement needed for enterprise-wide digital transformation.
• Educate and business executives and transformation team regarding the value of Agile, DevOps, and other necessary practices and processes to support a product-oriented operating model.
• Partner with Organization Change Management resources to ensure successful transformation through engaged and informed leadership and a workforce prepared for change through careful attention to cultural indicators.
• Identify potential pitfalls and risks to successful transformation and potential ways to mitigate them.
• Identify constraints, including bureaucratic processes that challenge the successful transformation and engage with relevant leaders to overcome them while maintaining compliance.

• Experience in a leadership role transforming from project to product operating model within an organization of at least 500 people.
• Experience as a leader adopting AGILE and DevOps within a large organization.
• Experience defining product taxonomy, and mapping technologies and people to products for a complex business.
• Deep understanding and ability to explain to both business and technology leaders the strategic drivers and risks of each stage of the transformation and at high level decisions points throughout the transformation.
• Ability to sustain transformation efforts through executive-level leadership transitions that are commonplace in executive government.
• Experience developing, adopting and/or rolling out necessary forms and templates to capture and sufficiently flesh out input/requests/ideas into a product operating model.