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Change Consultant (Contract)

1099 Independent Contractor | Change Management | Function-Embedded

We are seeking a Change Consultant to own dedicated change and readiness coverage for one business function within a multi-function enterprise G&A transformation program. Each Change Consultant is embedded with a single function PE (People Experience), Global Finance, CIO, or Global Affairs applying the program's centrally established change methodology to the specific political, cultural, and operational realities of that function.

This is a people- and process-transformation program reorganizations, operating-model shifts, and workforce transitions not a systems or IT rollout. The change work is about organizational readiness and adoption, not managing a technical go-live.

The function you support will be at its own stage of readiness, shaped by process-mapping work landing on its own timeline from external vendors. You will need to build genuine engagement with that function's stakeholders without a fully finalized future-state to react to.

This role is best suited for someone with real experience in people and process transformation organizational redesign, workforce transitions, spans-and-layers change not someone whose change management background is rooted in systems or ERP implementations.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute all change work within the methodology, framework, and quality standards set by the Change / Transformation Readiness Lead — escalating approach or methodology questions rather than resolving them unilaterally
• Own change and readiness work for one assigned business function within the program
• Build a stakeholder map and change impact assessment specific to that function, using the centrally established framework and templates
• Support leader sponsorship activation planning tailored to that function's specific stakeholders
• Apply the program's centrally built communication toolkit to that function's specific context, providing function-specific intelligence and stakeholder context to the Change Communications Consultant for content production
• Conduct change readiness assessments for that function and track results over time using the program's standard measurement approach
• Own adoption tracking and metrics for that function through implementation
• Liaise with the process-documentation vendor covering that function to understand what processes are changing and when
• Surface process-ownership, structural, or prioritization questions arising from that function's change work for triage with the Change / Transformation Readiness Lead and program leadership
• Adjust readiness and adoption approach as that function's process-mapping outputs land and scope firms up

Qualifications

• 5+ years of change management experience in consulting or a comparable transformation environment
• Genuine experience in people and process transformation — organizational redesign, workforce transitions, operating-model change, spans-and-layers decisions — not primarily systems/ERP or technology-implementation change management
• Prior experience working as a 1099 independent contractor or on commercial client engagements
• Demonstrated ability to build stakeholder trust and readiness within a single function while the broader transformation program is still resolving scope elsewhere
• Comfort operating within a centrally established change methodology and framework, applying it to a specific function's context
• Comfort operating without a fully finalized future-state to react to
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for leader-level and frontline stakeholder engagement
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or similar platforms as a routine part of daily workflow

This Role Is NOT

• A role that independently defines the program's change methodology or framework those are set by the Change / Transformation Readiness Lead; methodology questions escalate
• A communications content production role the Change Communications Consultant produces polished audience-appropriate content; this role provides function-specific context as input
• A document filing or version control role, the Change Coordinator manages deliverable filing; practitioners should not be managing their own document versions
• A role responsible for analytical dashboards or readiness scoring, the Data & Insights team processes readiness data into analytical outputs
• A systems/ERP OCM role built around a single technical go-live
• A generalist role covering all functions at once, each Change Consultant owns one function's dedicated coverage

Preferred Characteristics

• Comfortable working within a centrally set framework and applying it independently to a specific function's unique context
• Comfortable building genuine stakeholder engagement without a finalized future-state to point to
• Strong instinct for reading a function's specific readiness gaps and adjusting the approach accordingly
• Proactive about surfacing structural or ownership questions to the Change / Transformation Readiness Lead rather than resolving them unilaterally
• Calm and steady when a function's pace shifts due to external dependencies outside your control
• AI-enabled by default: uses AI tools to accelerate readiness assessments, stakeholder materials, and adoption tracking

Application Question(s):

• This role owns dedicated change coverage for one function inside a larger, multi-function program still resolving scope elsewhere. Describe a time you led change work for one group while a broader initiative around you was still in flux.
• Describe specifically how you currently use AI tools (such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or similar) in your change management workflow.
• This role requires genuine people- and process-transformation experience — reorgs, operating-model change, workforce transitions — not systems/ERP change management. Walk through a specific example of change work you led that was NOT tied to a technology implementation or go-live.
• This role applies a centrally established change methodology and framework to one function's specific context. Describe a time you worked within a standardized methodology or approach set by someone else — how did you apply it faithfully while still adapting to your specific audience's needs?
• Describe a time you had to build stakeholder readiness or engagement before the future-state process or structure was fully defined. How did you approach it, and what did you tell stakeholders when you didn't yet have the full picture?
• Describe a specific instance where your change or readiness work surfaced a process-ownership, structural, or prioritization question that needed to go to program leadership. What did you notice, and how did you raise it?

• Describe a time your change approach for a group had to shift materially once new information became available partway through. How did you handle the transition?
• How do you balance genuine stakeholder engagement depth with the pace demands of a fast-moving transformation program?
• This is a 1099 independent contractor role. Hours are driven by client demand and are not guaranteed week to week. Payment is invoice-based on a Net-45 cycle. Have you worked as a 1099 independent contractor before? If yes, briefly describe the engagement. If no, describe how you would approach the financial planning this model requires

Work Location: Remote