Senior Organizational Change Management; OCM; Consultant

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Date: Oct 30, 2026

Location: Springfield, IL, US

Company: NTT DATA Services

We are currently seeking a Senior Organizational Change Management (OCM) - Consultant to join our team in Springfield, Illinois (US-IL), United States (US).

External Posting Job Title :
Senior Organizational Change Management (OCM) Consultant

Overview of Job :
Currently seeking a Senior Organizational Change Management (OCM) Consultant to support the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) modernization initiative by leading organizational change efforts that promote stakeholder readiness, workforce adoption, and successful business transformation.

This role is responsible for independently managing assigned OCM work streams and developing key change management deliverables that support organizational readiness, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, resistance management, adoption measurement, stabilization, and transition activities. The consultant will work closely with executive sponsors, program leadership, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to ensure change impacts are understood, managed, and successfully adopted across the organization.

The position is hybrid, with the possibility of up to 25% travel to the client location in Springfield, Illinois.

• Lead assigned OCM work streams from planning through implementation, stabilization, sustainment, and transition.
• Develop and maintain OCM strategies, roadmaps, work plans, schedules, status reports, risks, dependencies, and performance measures.
• Conduct stakeholder analyses, organizational impact assessments, change readiness assessments, and adoption evaluations.
• Analyze business processes, workforce, organizational structure, policy, and operational impacts associated with modernization initiatives.
• Develop and execute stakeholder engagement strategies and communication plans tailored to executive leadership, managers, staff, and external stakeholders.
• Produce executive-ready deliverables, including presentations, briefings, dashboards, reports, FAQs, talking points, and communications materials.
• Design and support implementation of change adoption metrics, readiness indicators, success measures, and organizational performance reporting.
• Identify change risks, stakeholder concerns, and resistance points; develop and implement mitigation strategies and corrective actions.
• Coach executive sponsors, business leaders, managers, and stakeholder groups on change leadership, employee engagement, and adoption responsibilities.
• Conduct interviews, workshops, focus groups, assessments, presentations, and facilitated working sessions.
• Perform training needs analyses and develop role-based training strategies, curricula, job aids, learning materials, and reinforcement activities.
• Support release readiness, deployment activities, go-live planning, post-implementation adoption monitoring, lessons learned, and transition activities.
• Collaborate with PMO, business, technical, testing, training, and implementation teams to align change activities with program objectives and milestones.
• Ensure all assigned deliverables meet quality standards, contractual requirements, client expectations, and established timeline.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Six (6) or more years of experience supporting organizational change management, business transformation, organizational development, strategic planning, business process improvement, or technology modernization initiatives.
• Five (5) or more years of experience independently developing and executing organizational change management deliverables and strategies.
• Three (3) or more years of experience leading OCM initiatives for large-scale organizational or technology transformation efforts.
• Three (3) or more years of experience supporting Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS), Medicaid Enterprise System (MES), healthcare, health and human services, or similarly complex public-sector transformation programs.
• Demonstrated experience developing stakeholder analyses, organizational impact assessments, readiness assessments, communication plans, training materials, adoption strategies, and executive-level presentations.
• Experience measuring organizational…