Senior Change Management Consultant - Doha, Qatar
We are seeking a Senior Change Management Consultant to join a residential team in Doha, Qatar. This is a one-year initial contract with the possibility of extension. The successful candidate will lead change management initiatives for large-scale technology and digital programmes, ensuring smooth adoption and alignment across all levels of the organisation.
Qualifications
- Postgraduate or advanced degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, General Management, Organisational Behaviour, or related field preferred.
- Change Management certification (PROSCI or ACMP) is an advantage.
Experience and Skills
- Minimum six years of experience in change management, with significant exposure to client-facing roles.
- Solid understanding of how individuals and organisations navigate change.
- Experience implementing change management plans using multiple tools and techniques.
- Experience designing and delivering organisation- and project-level change management activities for large-scale technology or digital programmes.
- Familiarity with change management principles, methodologies, and tools.
- Strong communication skills, including writing, presenting, and active listening.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and work effectively across all organisational levels.
- Experience in project management approaches, tools, and methodologies.
- Flexible, adaptable, and able to manage multiple priorities.
- Experience in oil and gas or large-scale industrial environments is advantageous.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Identify key stakeholders, assess change readiness, and conduct change impact assessments.
- Develop change management strategies based on project scope, history, and impacted groups.
- Identify potential people-side risks and resistance, developing plans to mitigate concerns.
- Create actionable change management plans, including communication plans, sponsor roadmaps, coaching plans, training plans, and resistance management plans.
- Establish and deploy a sustainable Change Network.
- Deliver clear and impactful communications to various user groups.
- Design, manage, and measure training delivery and effectiveness.
- Develop and track change management KPIs, adoption metrics, and course corrections.
- Support end-to-end change management, including:
- Leadership alignment
- Change readiness assessment
- Change impact assessment
- Stakeholder analysis and engagement
- Role alignment
- Digital learning strategy and execution
- Adoption tracking and benefits realisation
- Design and deliver digital communications such as emails, posters, intranet updates, infographics, videos, and other formats.
- Manage training materials development and deployment through effective channels.
- Create and maintain systems to measure adoption, utilisation, and proficiency of changes.