Remote Stakeholder Management contract jobs

Company Overview

AlignOrg Solutions (AOS) is a thriving boutique consultancy comprised of experts in organization design and change management. Our team of management specialists helps Fortune 500 companies and other enterprises clarify their strategy and envision the organization design choices and business models needed to bring about organization alignment and transformation. We offer organization design services adapted for each of our clients that provide a clear pathway for their vision to become embodied in day-to-day operations, and we support the transformation short- and long-term. We work across industries and with for-profit and nonprofit enterprises of all sizes and in all locations throughout the globe.

Our team works together to serve client needs by leveraging our distinct tool set and methodologies. Each practitioner enjoys the benefits of being an employee of AlignOrg Solutions and has the flexibility to work on projects that fit their schedule and interests while benefiting from the strong reputation and pipeline of work that AlignOrg Solutions offers. The choice of your base location is entirely at your discretion.

Job Description

Engagement Executive

• Independently leads and delivers consulting projects (especially large complex client engagements across multiple work streams, including:
  • Situation diagnosis and recommended intervention approach
  • Contracting with clients for work scope and projects
  • Independent Consultant resource selection
  • All pre-session activities (e.g., session deck preparation, stakeholder interviews, sponsor set-up, logistics, etc.)
  • Facilitation of major design sessions and transition activities between sessions
  • Coordination of billing information if multiple consultants are involved
  • Project management, including budget
• Supports Principal with contracting and planning activities.
• Owns client relationships by serving the client needs and actively seeking opportunities to sell and penetrate the client.
• Identifies opportunities for additional sell-in work at current clients and converts new client marketing leads into solid business (including opportunities to license AOS IP).
• Provides direct support, coaching and/or training to assigned team members.
• Attends AOS subject matter related conferences.
• Attends, sponsors and/or presents at conferences centered on an offering (OD, Change, Leadership, related industries, etc.).
• Extends personal expertise into specialty areas of AlignOrg Solutions' value offering (e.g., matrix, culture, strategy, alignment, etc.) by piloting interventions and contributing enhancements to products and tools.

Engagement Executives are strong strategic and conceptual thinkers, have exemplary presentation and flexible facilitation skills, and demonstrate a proficiency at formulating break-through questions that help clients achieve new insights about their business. They show political savvy in addressing performance, personality, and strategic trade-off issues with senior business leaders. They identify opportunities for additional client support and appropriately lead efforts to scope and contract new project engagements.

Additional Responsibilities and Skills

• Become intimately familiar with AOS tools, techniques, and methodologies
• Develop design session materials using AOS templates and adapt according to needs of the clients.
• Build strong client relationships.
• Monitor and manage client profitability.
• Leverage experiences from one client to foster insights for another.
• Support Principal with contracting, marketing, sales, and planning activities
• Provide direct support, coaching, and/or training to project team members
• Attend and participate in annual AOS Conference and other scheduled subject-matter related conferences and trainings.
• Extend expertise into specialty areas of AlignOrg Solutions' value offering (e.g., matrix, culture, strategy, alignment, etc.) by piloting interventions and contributing enhancements to products/tools.
• Share subject matter expertise applied to AOS methodologies through blogs and other Social Media outlets to help promote the AOS brand.

Job Requirements

• Extensive experience in complex content delivery and interaction in front of complex teams and organizations with a high degree of success.
• Extensive experience working with teams, providing organization design, change management, and consultative solutions with measurable results and positive impact.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully managing multiple teams providing organization design, change management and consultative solutions with measurable results and positive impact.
• Demonstrated experience in managing and overseeing multiple, complex projects simultaneously.
• Client relationship-building skills, including contracting, stakeholder management, diagnosis, project scoping, and project management.
• Executive presence.
• Coaching and training experience.
• Contracting, sales and negotiation skills.
• 10 + years experience working with senior business leaders.
• Background in HR, OE, Communication, Strategy, Process Design or related field (Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred).
• Microsoft Office suite with strong PowerPoint and Excel proficiency in particular.
• Willingness to travel 60-80% of the time (traveling average engagement is 3-4 days, averaging 3-4 engagements per month) -- remainder of the time is working from home.

Graduate UX/UI Designer

Location
Remote working (eventually Newbury once COVID restrictions are not in place)

Contract
3-month contract (ongoing)

Rate

• £190 per day (through Umbrella company)
• £150 per day (PAYE)

Hours
Monday to Friday

Job Overview
The purpose of this UX role is to design and evolve the User Experience, UI look and feel of the clients' employee facing complex and high traffic applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Bring industry leading digital UX and design principles for complex and high traffic website.
• Working with both technical and business stakeholders to define a best-in-class online experience for our users.
• Having a working knowledge of accessibility standards, their importance and relevance.
• Support project estimation.
• Understand the high-level requirements for various projects and change requests on clients' Employee facing applications.
• Arrange and conduct workshops, for requirement clarifications/finalisation.
• Plan impact assessment sessions with SMEs for CRM and other impacted domains.
• Translate requirements into user flows, wireframes, sketching, mock-ups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Presenting design ideas and prototypes to stakeholder and other teams.

Typical deliverables

• UX Research using workshops, interviews and focus groups
• Personas, Experience Maps, User Journeys and User Flows
• Wireframes
• Interaction Design Prototype
• Visual Design, supported by our digital toolkit
• Style guide and Specifications

Systems and software

• Axure
• Sketch App
• Creative Suite
• InVision and DSM
• Zeplin
• Confluence
• Jira
• Experience of Siebel and/or Pega (Not essential, but nice to have)
• Other prototyping, user research and testing applications

Desirable experience

• High traffic B2B websites/apps/systems. Experience on complex apps and website would be an advantage.
• Experience working on CMS driven websites.
• Must have a portfolio with case studies.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.
• Experience of working in Kanban, but also a Scrum team.
• Understanding of accessibility standards.
• An understanding of development practices and technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and their impact on the digital experience.
• A clear understanding of where UX design fits within an organisation and what value it can bring.
• Experience working with BAs, product owners and project managers, to capture, review and agree business requirements.
• Stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities

Next Stage
Conversation with recruiter around job role and responsibilities and a short application over the phone

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