Senior Change Manager

Senior Change Manager IRC - International Rescue Committee Remote | New York City National Mid level Closed Apply Summary by Impactpool The Senior Change Manager at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) plays a vital role in facilitating the adoption of significant technology and operational changes. This position focuses on strategic change enablement across the IT portfolio, ensuring that major initiatives are effectively integrated into the organization's operations. The role involves collaborating with various teams to assess impacts, design job roles, and develop communication strategies that support successful change. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in change management and a proven ability to influence stakeholders. Candidate Requirements: 6-8 years of experience in change management or related roles Experience with complex, cross-functional change initiatives Ability to influence senior stakeholders Experience in job design and training activities Strong change management expertise Excellent communication skills Ability to work in ambiguity and adapt plans The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future. Job Overview: The Senior Change Manager, Operations Strategy and Delivery, plays a critical role in enabling the successful adoption of major technology and operating model changes across the IRC. The role provides strategic change enablement across the IT portfolio, ensuring that large-scale, multi-year priorities are clearly positioned, well understood, and embedded into IRC ways of working. The Senior Change Manager leads the strategic design of change approaches for priority IT initiatives - including Tech100 Strategy execution, the AI agenda, and data transformation initiatives with a core focus on IT Shared Services, covering job design, role transitions, capability building, communications, and implementation. The role partners closely with the IT Communications team to ensure that day-to-day change, communications, and enablement efforts across IT initiatives are strategically aligned, well sequenced, and coherently positioned in support of IT’s broader transformation agenda. The role also works in close partnership with IT leadership, People & Culture, US and International Programs, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure technology-enabled change is human-centered, coordinated, and sustainable across regions, departments, and country programs. Major Responsibilities: Change Strategy & Planning Provide portfolio-level change leadership for IT strategic initiatives, with a primary focus on IT Shared Services. Partner with IT, Program Teams and P&C to assess organizational impacts and readiness in ways that enable momentum and reduce change fatigue. Ensure change is embedded by establishing strong feedback loops, monitoring adoption and readiness, and translating lessons learned into refinements that support successful scale and sustainability. Partner with the IT Communications team to align on high-level communication strategy, sequencing, and positioning across the IT portfolio. Job Design, Role Transitions & Capability Building Lead job design and role definition for future-state IT Shared Services, including role responsibilities, operating interfaces, and integration with country and regional teams. Conduct gap and readiness assessments to identify skill, capacity, and capability needs associated with new Shared Services operating models and technologies. Design and coordinate enablement and transition plans for IT Shared Services, partnering with People & Culture and the IT Communications team to ensure training, onboarding, and role transition efforts are coherent, adoption-focused, and well sequenced. Communications & Engagement Define high-level change communication strategies and key narratives for priority IT initiatives, ensuring consistent positioning, sequencing, and tone across the IT portfolio. Translate complex technical and organizational changes into clear strategic framing and core messages that guide downstream communications and enablement efforts. Partner with the IT Communications team to equip leaders and managers with aligned narratives, talking points, and engagement guidance to reinforce adoption and sustained change. Job Requirements: Work Experience - Required: Minimum 6–8 years of experience in change management, organizational development, transformation, or related roles. Proven experience supporting complex, cross-functional change initiatives, ideally involving technology, operating model, or shared services transformations. Demonstrated experience working with and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority. Experience designing and delivering change activities such as job design, impact assessments, training, communications, and adoption tracking. Work Experience – Highly Desirable: Proven experience in humanitarian, nonprofit, or global organizations managing change across distributed multi-country teams, including remote change engagement strategies and cross-cultural change approaches Exposure to technology-enabled change, including IT service models, data platforms, or AI-related initiatives. Demonstrated Skills and Competencies: Strong change management and organizational beha