Principal Advisor, Strategic Change

2 weeks ago

Ottawa, Canada EDC Full time

**Principal Advisor, Strategic Change (14 month contract)** - 00045Q

**Posting Date**: Feb 8, 2023, 3:02:41 PM

**Primary Location**: Ontario-Ottawa

**Job Type**: Contract

**Schedule**: Full-time

EDC is Canada’s export credit agency, offering information, knowledge and innovative commercial solutions to help Canadian exporters and investors expand their international business. We take on risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world.

When you join our team, you’ll be helping Canadian companies bring their vision, passion and innovation to the global marketplace. Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian companies and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide. You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success. And you’ll know that you’re making a difference every day—for companies, for Canada and for the people you work with.

Year after year, EDC has been recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer. #LI-Hybrid

**Team**

EDC’s Strategic Change team is creating a new Principal position to support EDC’s corporate strategy and change agenda. As part of the Transformation Office (TO) Enterprise Change & Transformation team, the Principal acts and embraces all aspects of being an ambassador and champion for EDC’s transformation and builds change leadership as a corporate capability.

**Discipline Summary**
- Supports corporate strategy and transformation by developing, implementing and evaluating strategic change requirements;
- Leads the change process for transformational programs.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provides agile change management support and advisory services;
- Consults with partners at all levels on projects to assess change impacts and define a process for managing;
- Designs agile plans for each change project to document process, sponsor/stakeholder roles, outputs, and target dates;
- Tracks progress and identifies critical path issues;
- Advises and provides follow-up guidance at group or individual level for managing the change process;
- Oversees work of junior resources
- Champions the use of the EDC Change Management Methodology;
- Identifies process improvements and integrates these into ongoing updates of methodologies and tools;
- Acts as key content expert and resource for all inquiries and activities related to the EDC Change Management Methodology;
- Builds relationships with other corporate support teams such as Communications, Organizational Development and Learning and Development to establish respective roles within change projects;
- Coaches and mentors other team members;
- Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in change leadership research and behaviours and change management methodology;
- Leads others to solve complex problems;
- Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations;
- May lead multi-functional projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity;
- Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view;
- Excellent oral and written communications skills, including making presentations;
- Excellent organizational consulting, customer service, and facilitation skills at all levels within the organization;
- Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills;
- Excellent project management, prioritization and organizational skills;
- Strong creativity and ability to work in an abstract or conceptual mode;
- Ability to quickly understand and gauge corporate climate and culture.

**Screening Criteria**
- Completed undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Human Resources or a related field;
- Minimum 10 years' experience in employee and/or organizational effectiveness, or change management;
- Advanced knowledge of organizational effectiveness or change management principles and practices.

**Asset**
- Bilingual in both official languages (French and English)

**Salary Range**
- $109,700-164,500

**How to apply

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