Job Description

Director, Change Management
(Remote)

Want to change the world? At Scouts Canada our Vision is “Canadian youth making a meaningful
contribution to creating a better world.” We need passionate people who share our Mission to develop well-rounded youth better prepared for success in the world. Are you someone who is energized by challenging assignments? The assignment: develop our volunteer community, champion safe and dynamic youth-led program quality and enable Scouts to grow its membership in Canada.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategy & Change, the Director of Change Management is responsible for leveraging change disciplines to continuously improve Scout Canada’s ability to design, pilot, assess, iterate, and embed our outputs/products broadly across Scouts Canada’s membership base.
This role will be remote from your home office, and the candidate can be located anywhere in Canada. (Occasional travel is required)

Responsibilities:
• Change Management: Embed change principles and approaches to drive continuous improvement in scoping, co-designing, testing and scaling outputs/initiatives in the context of a membership organization.
• User Centered Design: Continuously improve the effectiveness of Scouts Canda’s ability to design, pilot and implement new outputs/products/programs alongside the organization’s membership. (staff & volunteers/National & local)
• Communications: Craft effective communication strategies to convey the rationale, benefits, and progress of change initiatives to members and staff.
• Leadership: Increase change management capacity and discipline amongst department leads, volunteer teams and the Executive Leadership Team.

Competencies Required:
• Change Management: An understanding of change management methodologies, tools, and best practices including the ability to measure the impact of change. Experience in contributing to organizational change initiatives that impact a broad audience.

• Communications: The ability to craft communication and outreach strategies that create a clear vision for change, the rationale and drive adoption. This will require strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills and the capability to articulate complex ideas into accessible terms.

• Capacity Building: Competence to increase change management capacity and discipline through department heads and volunteer teams. This will require the ability to achieve success via training, consulting, advising and co-designing with others.

• Stakeholder Management: Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills to work effectively with various departments and stakeholders within the organization, fostering a culture of cooperation and shared goals.This will also require the ability to equip a team of change agents (staff, youth & volunteers) with tools and approaches to drive incremental change- nationally and locally.

Work Experience Required:
• 5+ years’ experience in supporting change management, stakeholder relations, and/or communications.
Working Conditions:
• The role will be remote from a home office environment. However, physical travel and attendance at meetings, and events (both internal and external) will be required – likely 4 times a year.
• Regular office hours, some evening and weekend work is required.
• PRC (Police Record Check) and VSS (Vulnerable Sector Check) are required before the start date.
• Mandatory training requirement.

We’ve got you covered:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes a fabulous merchandise discount; an employer-matched retirement plan after one year; extended health, prescription, vision, and dental coverage and more.
Salary depends on skills and experience. Salary range: $78,029.25- $91,799.25
Ready to apply?
Please submit your resume (remove any photos of yourself) alongside a cover letter that responds to your experience and skills in the ” Competencies Required” section. Note that your application will not be considered if you do not submit a Cover Letter or if your Cover Letter does not explicitly outline how you meet the Competencies Required.
Please submit your resume and cover letter by CLICKING HERE. The deadline to apply is December 15, 2023.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. We will be reviewing resumes as they are submitted.
Scouts Canada is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in our workplace and in our recruitment processes. We encourage applications from members of all racialized groups, gender identities and sexual orientations, Indigenous persons and, persons with disabilities.
Accessibility and Accommodation: Scouts Canada is committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. Accommodation requests should be made in advance to HR at [email protected] Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

Required languages: English

Education level: Post-secondary education considered as an asset

Required skills: • 5+ years’ experience in supporting change management, stakeholder relations, and/or communications.

Closest intersection: Remote