Culture, Change Management & Capability Expert

Adoption, Communications, and Institutionalization

Drive the “people side” of the agriculture transformation across government and sector stakeholders—ensuring new policies, processes, and digital tools are adopted, institutionalized, and sustained through change strategy, capability building, communications, and behavioral interventions
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• Develop a transformation-wide change strategy alignedto the TMO roadmap.
• Map stakeholder groups: leadership, regulators, extension services, inspectors, finance/admin staff, farmers, private sector partners.
• Identify adoptionrisks and develop mitigation plans per initiative/workstream.

For each major initiative (subsidy reform, resource management, digital platforms, inspections), define:

• New rolesand responsibilities (RACI).
• Process changes and SOP updates.
• Policy/procedure communications and training needs.
• Readiness criteria and go-live supportapproach.

Build a multi-channel communication plan:

• Executive communications (steering messages, decisionummaries)
• Internal adoptioncommunications (townhalls, toolkits, FAQs)
• Develop structured materials: playbooks, briefingpacks, field guides.

Establish a capability frameworkaligned to the new operating model:

• Training curricula (policy, processes, tools) and development of train-the-trainer programs
• Communities of practice (extension, inspectors, program managers) Coaching and “super user” networks for digital products
• Define reinforcement mechanisms: leadership routines, performance dialogues, continuous improvement loops.

• Establish adoptionindicators and readiness assessments (training completion, process compliance checks, system usage patterns, field feedback loops).
• Conduct structured feedback collection and incorporate into iterative improvement cycles with workstream leads.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in organizational development, public administration, HR strategy, or related; certifications (e.g., Prosci) are a plus.
• 10+ yearsin change management for large-scale public sector or regulated-sector transformations.
• Direct experience supporting reforms (policy/process) and digital rolloutswith frontline adoption.
• Experience in agriculture/food systems preferred (or strongexposure to government service delivery contexts).