Change Management Communications Consultant

🔥 16 hours ago

🏛️ District of Columbia, Virginia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $98k - $163k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🗣️ Communications

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Guidehouse

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

💰 Grant on 2023-02

Healthcare • Defense • Logistics

Guidehouse is a global consultancy offering advisory, digital, and managed services across commercial and public sectors. It is purpose-built to support industries such as national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Guidehouse collaborates with leaders to navigate complexity and drives transformational changes that impact the future. Their expertise spans data analytics, digital technologies, risk management, and more, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and innovation.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute integrated change communication strategies for modernization, transformation, and technology implementation efforts • Design communications approaches that increase awareness, stakeholder readiness, user adoption, and sustained behavioral change • Assess stakeholder impacts and communication needs across multiple audiences • Partner with change management, training, technical, and business teams to align communications with implementation milestones and readiness objectives • Develop communication plans covering stakeholder analysis, audience segmentation, key messages, channels, feedback mechanisms, risks, and success measures • Advise executive leaders and translate strategic priorities, decisions, and transformation objectives into impactful communications • Develop leadership messages, talking points, presentations, briefing materials, leadership toolkits, and stakeholder engagement materials • Support executive visibility and sponsorship activities • Anticipate stakeholder concerns and address resistance, uncertainty, and organizational impacts • Translate complex technical concepts, system changes, business process redesigns, policy changes, and operational impacts into clear communications • Create newsletters, implementation updates, readiness materials, FAQs, leadership communications, presentations, intranet content, videos, job aids, toolkits, and adoption campaigns • Ensure communications follow federal plain-language, accessibility, and usability standards • Support stakeholder engagement strategies, workshops, leadership briefings, and readiness discussions • Monitor stakeholder sentiment and communication effectiveness, recommending adjustments • Track communication activities, deliverables, engagement efforts, and adoption metrics • Develop reports and dashboards on readiness, communication effectiveness, stakeholder feedback, and adoption progress • Use quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate effectiveness and recommend continuous improvement • Support business development, internal Guidehouse initiatives, and mentoring junior team members

🎯 Requirements

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved adjudication required prior to onboarding • Bachelor's Degree; four years of additional professional experience may be substituted in lieu of a Bachelor's • Minimum of three years of experience in strategic communications, organizational change management, change communications, public affairs, communications consulting, public relations, or related fields • Experience supporting modernization, digital transformation, technology implementation, organizational change, or large-scale program initiatives • Ability to translate complex technical, operational, and organizational changes into clear communications for diverse stakeholder audiences • Experience developing executive communications and advising leadership on transformation-related communication strategies • Experience supporting stakeholder engagement, workforce transition, organizational readiness, adoption, and change management activities • Strong writing, editing, presentation development, and storytelling skills • Experience developing multi-channel communication campaigns and adoption-focused communications products • Ability to collaborate with executives, technical teams, program leadership, trainers, and cross-functional stakeholder groups • US Citizenship restrictions apply due to contract requirements • Currently reside in the contiguous United States • Experience with Department of Veterans Affairs modernization programs or other federal transformation initiatives • Experience applying Prosci, ADKAR, Kotter, or other organizational change management frameworks • Experience supporting system implementations, digital health modernization, enterprise technology deployments, or operational transformations • Familiarity with organizational readiness assessments, stakeholder impact assessments, and adoption measurement • Knowledge of federal healthcare operations and healthcare technology environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays • Discretionary variable incentive bonus may be available • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Basic Life & Supplemental Life • Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability • Student Loan PayDown • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities • Skills Development & Certifications • Employee Referral Program • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach • Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program • Mobility Stipend • Flexible benefits package