Seeking Program Management Office (PMO) Analyst & Organizational Change Management (OCM) & Communications Consultant with ERP experience

We are in search of qualified Program Management Office (PMO) Analysts & Organizational Change Management (OCM) & Communications Consultants for hybrid job openings in Annapolis, Maryland.

Candidates can email their up-to-date resume to us at gina@ginastechjobs.com.

ERP Program Management Office (PMO) Analyst (Annapolis, MD):

We are seeking a highly skilled ERP PMO Analyst with a strong background in program management and project management to join a high profile, complex financial modernization project. The successful Program Management Analyst will be a key project team member and will be responsible for managing large and separate workstreams and track schedule, budget, risks and issues, scope, and quality. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a complex, fast-moving environment, is a self-starter, has great attention to detail, and can work independently and within a team. The successful candidate will have a background in ERP systems, project management, and leadership. This role involves ensuring project alignment with strategic goals and delivering successful ERP solutions across a complex client. You must be willing to travel 2 times a month for 2 days a week (for example, Monday and Tuesday for 2 weeks out of the month). This is a hybrid position, and candidates need to be located in the Annapolis, MD area. 2 to 3 days a week in the office.

ERP PMO Analyst Responsibilities:

– Experience supporting large, complex systems implementation and modernization projects as a program or project management analyst; ideally financial management system modernizations.
– Ability to analyze and identify program task needs, work through complex issues and communicate effectively problem solving, and provide solutions to critical tasks and meeting high priority deadlines.
– Develop comprehensive project plans, including timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
– Identify and mitigate project risks and issues.
– Ability to maintain a complete line of sight across program activities and being able to speak to the status of each initiative.
– Ability to support the management and tracking of project schedule, budget, risk, quality, scope, and other key program management areas for a portfolio of projects.
– Ability to identify and track key performance indicators (KPIs) from clients and monitor progress against KPIs over entirety of program.
– Ability to create various forms of status reports, including weekly status reports for core project team members and executive level reports for executive steering committees.
– Ability to simultaneously manage disparate tasks in a fast-moving, complex environment.
– Prepare and present written communications, project plans, status reports, and briefing materials.
– Monitor, track, and report on the status of various project requests related to financial management modernization.
– ERP experience in discovery/implementation phase.
– Create and manage Project Management Plan.

ERP PMO Analyst Qualifications:

– Requires a University Degree and minimum of 3 to 5 years of prior relevant consulting experience; some roles may require graduate-level education Master’s or Doctorate degree (Relevant experience may be substituted for formal education or advanced degree).
– Experience with program management or project management methodologies.
– Experience creating and managing Program Management Plans (PMPs).
– Experience facilitating sessions with numerous stakeholders.
– Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
– Experience on an ERP Financial Management modernization project is a plus.
– PMP certification is a plus.

Organizational Change Management (OCM) and Communications Consultant (Annapolis, MD):

We are seeking an Organizational Change Management (OCM) and Communications Consultant to take an active role in engagement execution for change management. This includes stakeholder management and developing materials around change readiness assessments, communications analysis, communications planning, and the execution of change management and communications collateral. OCM Senior Consultants help our clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency and operations, increase transparency, and promote user adoption, and comply with Federal, State, and Local government laws and regulations. As a Senior Consultant, you will have responsibility for client management, solution implementation, and overall delivery within your assigned workstream. You will be relied upon for project workstreams and interact with clients to ensure engagement success. This includes supporting day-to-day operational meetings with clients and consulting leaders. Senior Consultants must prepare and communicate well-organized communications and presentations to clients and internal executives. As a Senior Consultant, you will follow a clearly defined career path and continue to deepen your OCM acumen and consulting skills. A successful Senior Consultant is self-motivated, outcomes-oriented, capable, and willing to develop solutions independently or collaboratively as part of a team of highly skilled professionals. Senior Consultants are provided with the opportunity to interact with our clients and to enhance skills across technical competency, business development, and client service. As a Senior Consultant, you will work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting experience, helping our public sector clients solve complex issues from strategy to execution. We have 7 openings for this opportunity. This is a hybrid position, and candidates need to be located in the Annapolis, MD area. 2 to 3 days a week in the office.

Organizational Change Management (OCM) and Communications Consultant Responsibilities:

– Proactively assist in the delivery of engagement activities and manage the completion of deliverables.
– Work independently, with minimal supervision, and partner with others to develop relationships across the engagement team.
– Lead one or more tasks or work streams within a client engagement, overseeing individual contributions as well as potentially that of junior staff.
– Guide client and internal subject matter expert conversations toward effective outcomes.
– Develop strategies to solve complex OCM challenges for our clients.
– Contribute to the development of the team’s industry acumen and capabilities through contribution to internal firm initiatives.
– Lead key components of change management projects and teams to develop and implement change strategies and plans.
– Conduct user-centered research to create practical approaches to increase customer awareness and adoption of change.
– Lead the creation of content for stakeholder engagement regarding planned changes – what’s in it for me, why it matters, how it’s done, and the program’s status.
– Execute change readiness surveys and business readiness assessments with stakeholder groups, analyzing results to identify barriers to change and addressing barriers through change management support.
– Communicate with all levels of an organization and prepare engaging and dynamic briefings for senior executives.
– Track and report the status of change programs, including key metrics and risks.
– Support the development and continuous improvement of change management methodologies and tools.
– Participate in business development activities, such as proposals, capture, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and/or other thought leadership materials.

Organizational Change Management (OCM) and Communications Consultant Qualifications:

– Minimum of 3-5 years of experience.
– Bachelor’s Degree OR 7 years of relevant experience may be used in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.
– Need experience with ERP Discovery.
– Experience on an ERP Modernization Project and Financial Management implementation is preferred.
– Experience implementing technology systems and financial management systems; examples include Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Oracle.
– Change Management experience in stakeholder engagement – facilitating interviews, focus groups, surveys, etc.
– Change Management experience in drafting and communications.
– Change Management experience participating in change agent / champion programs.
– Communications experience creating collateral, specifically through a human-centered design (HCD) lens in creating materials such newsletters, executive briefings, and mass emails using mail merge and Send To functions within MS products.
– Experience developing change readiness surveys and business readiness assessments to identify barriers to resistance and developing plans to address barriers.
– Experience developing and executing communication and engagement plans for a wide array of stakeholders.
– Organizational and project management skills.
– Experience leading one or more tasks or work streams within a client engagement, overseeing individual contributions, as well as potentially overseeing the work of additional engagement or junior staff.
– Excellent written and verbal communication skills across all levels of business, including experience writing reports and client or public-facing documents, as well as communicating complex concepts effectively through MS PowerPoint, including creating custom visuals and customization of slide masters.
– The ability to work as part of a team and prioritize resources and time effectively.
– A Public Trust background check is required.

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