Request for Proposals:
Change Management Consultant
Enterprise Transformation, Volunteer Engagement & Communications
Reports To
:
Chief Executive Officer
Engagement Type
:
Contract Consultant
Term
: 4-8 Months (with potential for extension)
Location
:
Remote within Canada with occasional travel
Introduction
Girl Guides of Canada (GGC) is a national organization that empowers girls and youth to be leaders that are confident and connected. Supported by thousands of dedicated volunteers and staff across the country, GGC is evolving to meet the needs of future generations while remaining grounded in its mission and values.
As part of its ongoing organizational evolution, GGC is undertaking significant transformation initiatives designed to modernize operations, improve volunteer and member experiences, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and build a more connected and sustainable future.
Objectives
Role Purpose
The Change Management Consultant will lead the people side of transformation across major organizational, digital, operational, and cultural change initiatives.
Working closely with executive leadership, project teams, staff, volunteers, and stakeholders, the consultant will be developing the enterprise change strategy, stakeholder/readiness approach, adoption measures, integrated change roadmap, and change reporting.
This role requires a unique combination of change leadership expertise, stakeholder engagement capability, and strategic communications experience. The successful candidate will help ensure that transformation initiatives are delivered in a way that reflects the realities of a volunteer-led organization and strengthens trust, collaboration, and staff-volunteer partnership.
A key focus of the role will be understanding volunteer perspectives and experiences, translating stakeholder insights into actionable recommendations, and working with organizational leadership to support their delivery of tactics and implementation of approaches.
Scope of Work
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Change and Transformation Leadership
- Synthesize and assess transformation work and architect an enterprise-wide change management plan to support successful transformation
- Develop and execute comprehensive change management strategies for organizational and digital transformation initiatives.
- Conduct stakeholder analyses, organizational impact assessments, readiness assessments, and change risk evaluations.
- Identify barriers to adoption and develop mitigation strategies to address organizational, cultural, operational, and behavioral challenges.
- Establish change governance frameworks and implementation approaches that support successful transformation outcomes.
- Develop enterprise-wide change methodologies, tools, and best practices.
- Monitor organizational readiness and adoption trends and provide recommendations to leadership.
- Support the integration of change management practices across multiple concurrent transformation initiatives.
- Promote a consistent and coordinated approach to organizational change across the organization.
Support Leadership with a Strategic Overview of Change
- Advise executive leaders and project sponsors on change leadership strategies and stakeholder management approaches.
- Connect with leadership across GGC around change and transformation streams, identify dependencies, sequence risks and identify key decision points
- Engage change and transformation leaders to identify redundancies and enable their success
- Build strong relationships with senior volunteers, councils, advisory groups, and grassroots leaders
- Review and validate initiative-level change management plans to ensure they are comprehensive, practical, coordinated and aligned with the enterprise change strategy.
Volunteer Engagement and…
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