• Join Sydney Water’s Strategy Change & Performance Team• Generous salary package + benefits on offer• 24-month Fix-Term contract
About the role
We’re looking for an experienced Change Specialist to join our Change Practice and support the successful delivery and adoption of change across the organisation. Working across a range of enterprise initiatives, you’ll partner with senior change leads, project teams, leaders and stakeholders to understand the people impacts of change and develop practical approaches that help our people understand, adopt and embed new ways of working.
In this role the Change Specialist will be responsible to drive faster adoption and greater utilisation and proficiency of business changes through increasing levels of change capability and maturity across the organisation. This will be achieved by creating awareness in the use and application of change management disciplines through coaching and mentoring
Key responsibilities
• Support the delivery of change initiatives across multiple projects and priorities, working closely with Senior Change Leads.• Conduct stakeholder and change impact assessments to identify risks, impacts and readiness needs across people, processes, roles and ways of working.• Develop and deliver practical change, communication and engagement plans that build understanding and drive adoption.• Create key change artefacts, including change impact assessments, stakeholder plans, communication materials and readiness assessments.• Identify and help mitigate change risks, stakeholder resistance and barriers to adoption.• Contribute to maintaining a Single View of Change to support visibility of change activity, impacts and dependencies across the organisation.• Partner with project teams, business leaders, subject matter experts and Senior Change Leads to support coordinated change delivery.• Facilitate stakeholder engagement and readiness activities, including workshops, briefings and feedback sessions.• Monitor readiness, stakeholder sentiment and adoption measures to identify gaps and inform actions.• Support transition and embedding activities to help new ways of working become sustained business practice.
About you
• Tertiary qualification or equivalent work experience in Change Management or Business-related discipline Prosci and/or Change Management Institute Practitioner accreditation, or other certification deemed equivalent• 2+ years applied experience as a change manager and/or learning and development specialist and/or equivalent• Experience working effectively at all organisational levels as well as delivering presentations and influencing outcomes at middle and senior manager level• Knowledge of change management methodology and approaches • Knowledge of best/competitive practices in change management • Highly developed written, oral communication and interpersonal skills• Confidence and experience to independently plan and facilitate change impact assessment workshops with stakeholders, drawing out meaningful insights and translating outcomes into clear actions.• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex information, identify patterns, risks and impacts, and turn insights into practical recommendations.• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.• Highly organised, with strong attention to detail and the ability to plan, prioritise and follow through on commitments.• Broad understanding of project management lifecycles, disciplines and procedures
Why our team like working at Sydney Water:
• Huge multi-billion-dollar program of work which shapes Australia’s busiest and largest city. It’s rewarding!• Positive team culture which celebrates wins and binds together to face challenges (have we told you were the No.1 company in Australia for graduates!) • Flexible working arrangements, to give you fair work/life balance.• We want your perspective and ideas to help us find…