Organizational Readiness Specialist

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Job Summary

The Organizational Readiness (OR) Specialist supports organization change projects and Enterprise Transformation initiatives to deliver optimal results in the form of minimizing productivity disruptions and maximizing change adoption. The OR Specialist focuses on executing change and readiness plans through partnership and collaboration with project leadership and process owners within Georgia Tech (GT) administrative support organizations. The role works alongside the OR Lead to execute plans to support change enablement, communication, and training plans through purposeful, advanced change measures.

This position will interact on a regular basis with:
Organizational Readiness Lead, service delivery management, unit program leadership, business process and system owners, administrative system project and support teams, and service delivery team members. This position typically will advise and counsel:
Institute and unit management, faculty, and staff. This position will supervise: N/A.

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 - Defines project-specific activities and deadlines for readiness activities in partnership with Organizational Lead and Program Lead.

Job Duty 2 - Partner with unit and project communication lead(s) to design and deliver communication plans with a focus on strategic messaging, persuasiveness, and visual attractiveness.

Job Duty 3 - Partner with unit and project training/learning lead(s) to design, develop, and deliver training plans to ensure impacted users are prepared to adapt to new skills, knowledge, or abilities required for change.

Job Duty 4 - Develop and manage action plans for key change management components such as communications plan and training plan in partnership with program leadership and Organizational Readiness Lead.

Job Duty 5 - Provide recurring status updates to leadership and other project governance committees.

Job Duty 6 - Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's Degree.

Required Experience

3-5 years of job-related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Additional

Preferred Qualifications

Prosci or other change management certification.

Preferred Educational Qualifications

Bachelor's degree specifically in Business Management, Change Management, Organizational Development or related field;
Master's Degree in Business Management, Change Management, Organizational Development or related field.

Preferred Experience

6+ years of job-related experience.

Proposed Salary

Salary Range: $63,303 to $83,000

Location:

Atlanta

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