OCM Practitioner

Location: Houston, TX • Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid — 4 days onsite per week, 1 day remote • Contract Type: Contract • Duration: 12 months (extensions expected) • Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.; no visa sponsorship.

About the role

The client is seeking a hands-on Organizational Change Management (OCM) Practitioner to support technology and business change initiatives. This role is designed for an execution-focused "doer" who can translate strategic direction from OCM leadership, project leadership, and technical subject matter experts into practical plans, deliverables, and activities that help employees understand, prepare for, and adopt change. The OCM Practitioner will work closely with project teams, business stakeholders, technical SMEs, and impacted users. The successful candidate will be comfortable working with established OCM frameworks and templates while independently driving assigned work to completion. The role reports to the Program Manager with a dotted line to the OCM Management team, and works closely with project leadership, technical SMEs, business stakeholders, communications, training, and impacted user groups. The practitioner will likely manage around 5 projects/initiatives at a time — including infrastructure upgrades, cybersecurity initiatives, data repository changes, data cleanup projects, app owner upgrades, and middleware changes. Azure DevOps is used to track projects; the team