Lead, Change Enablement (Independent Consultant)

About the role

A leading international philanthropic organisation operating across African markets is seeking an experienced Change Enablement professional to lead the adoption of its enterprise transformation initiatives. The Lead, Change Enablement will embed structured change management practices, strengthen leadership capability and drive organisational readiness, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and implement change enablement strategies, adoption frameworks, success measures and governance mechanisms, and integrate change management into programme and project delivery.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis, readiness evaluations and engagement plans; run workshops, leadership forums, steering committee meetings and roadshows, and set up continuous feedback loops.
• Coach executive sponsors and senior leaders, build leadership toolkits and communication resources, and work with Internal Communications and Learning & Development on enterprise communication and learning pathways.
• Establish and coach a network of Change Champions and Agility Ambassadors, and track their participation and influence.
• Build adoption dashboards and performance reporting, analyse adoption data and develop action plans to improve adoption and behavioural change.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the change management framework, maintain knowledge repositories and templates, and represent the function in enterprise forums and governance meetings.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Organisational Development, Business Administration, Psychology, Human Resources or a related discipline.
• Professional certification in change management (e.g., Prosci, ACMP) highly desirable; PMP or equivalent is an added advantage.
• At least 10 years of experience leading organisational change, transformation or enterprise-wide business improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex transformation programmes across multiple business functions and coaching executive leadership through large-scale change.
• Experience in international, multicultural or matrix organisations is highly desirable.

Required skills

• Structured change management methodologies such as Prosci ADKAR, Kotter, Lewin, Agile Change or equivalent.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams).
• Working knowledge of project management and collaboration platforms such as MS Project, Asana or Jira.
• Strong analytical ability with interpretation of organisational data, surveys, adoption metrics and dashboards.