Workday Change Manager

About the role

St. Mary’s College of Maryland at Historic St. Mary’s City is accepting résumés for the position of Workday Change Manager. The Change Manager leads and coordinates organizational change activities supporting the Workday implementation. The role focuses on preparing faculty, staff, leaders, and other impacted stakeholders for changes to business processes, roles, responsibilities, and ways of working resulting from Workday. Working closely with the Project Manager, functional and technical leads, Training Lead, Communications & Marketing, and the implementation partner, the Change Manager develops and executes a coordinated change approach that supports awareness, engagement, readiness, adoption, and transition to the new system. St. Mary's College of Maryland, the National Public Honors College, is located in Historic St. Mary's City, 70 miles southeast of Washington, D.C. St. Mary’s College is one of the nation’s best public liberal arts colleges – ranked near the top in U.S. News & World Report and a Best Value for in-state and out-of-state students. Non-sectarian since its founding, the college with its scenic waterfront campus is primarily undergraduate and residential, with a diverse coeducational student body numbering approximately 1600. The up-to-date curriculum is designed for today’s students who want an active, hands-on education led by professors who are committed teachers and experts in their fields. The quality of life is enhanced by the recreational opportunities of the Chesapeake region and close proximity to the amenities of Washington D.C., Baltimore and Richmond.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate organizational change activities supporting the Workday implementation.
• Prepare faculty, staff, leaders, and other impacted stakeholders for changes to business processes, roles, responsibilities, and ways of working resulting from Workday.
• Work closely with the Project Manager, functional and technical leads, Training Lead, Communications & Marketing, and the implementation partner.
• Develop and execute a coordinated change approach that supports awareness, engagement, readiness, adoption, and transition to the new system.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of change management experience, including experience supporting ERP, HCM, financial system, or Workday-related implementations.
• Experience supporting changes affecting multiple functional areas such as Finance, Human Resources, Payroll, and/or Student administration.
• Ability to translate complex system and process changes into clear, practical messages for nontechnical audiences.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, communication, and relationship-management skills, including experience working with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience conducting stakeholder, change-impact, and organizational-readiness assessments.
• Ability to work effectively with executives, project leadership, functional teams, technical teams, communications professionals, and implementation partners.
• Strong planning and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple change activities against an integrated project schedule.
• Experience in higher education strongly preferred; direct Workday HCM, Payroll, Financials, and/or Student implementation experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with established change-management approaches such as ADKAR/Prosci is preferred; practical application is more important than adherence to a particular methodology.
• Any combination of acceptable education and experience, which has provided the necessary knowledge and skills to fulfill the requirements of this position