Change Management Lead

Imagineeer is a fast-growing SBA 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business headquartered in Arlington, VA, delivering federal AI modernization across health, defense, homeland security, and transportation. We design, test, and deploy secure, AI-ready systems that move agencies from pilots to production without breaking governance, compliance, or mission continuity. Our Mission Studio model creates shared environments where policy, data, security, and operations come together. We are capability-driven and competitive by design, not program-dependent. Our leadership has operated inside the federal systems we now transform, bringing institutional knowledge that accelerates delivery and reduces risk. If real delivery motivates you more than slides, and you want your work to compound across programs and agencies, Imagineeer is growing and we are building the team to match.

About the role

Imagineeer is seeking a Change Management Lead to own organizational change management on an acquisition transformation engagement for a federal civilian department. Change management is a contract requirement from day one, not an add-on at implementation.

You will own the change methodology, co-author the Integrated Change Management, Training, and Configuration Management Plan within 20 business days of award, and own the adoption and change checkpoint in the firm's decision methodology: will the workforce adopt the change, and what will it require of them?

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and apply a structured, recognized change management methodology covering stakeholder analysis, change impact and readiness assessment, communications planning, leadership and change-champion engagement, resistance management, and adoption measurement, beginning with the current-state assessment.
• Co-author and maintain the Integrated Change Management, Training, and Configuration Management Plan, updating it with the Study Report and the Implementation Plan.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and workflow mapping with the Policy and Business Process Lead during the current-state assessment.
• Lead the stakeholder analysis and change readiness assessment for acquisition staff, program office customers, approvers, and system administrators.
• Document the workforce, role, and process impacts of eliminating, consolidating, or retaining each capability.
• Onboard pilot participants, engage change champions, and establish feedback mechanisms with the Change Management Analyst.
• Capture adoption measures for biweekly status reports and pilot performance reports, and report change management status in every status report.
• Deliver change management materials and adoption metrics during implementation and supervise the Change Management Analyst.
• Define change reinforcement for newly onboarded users as tools scale across the organization, for inclusion in the Continuation Roadmap.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in organizational development, business, communications, or a related field.
• 10 or more years of organizational change management experience, including leading change on at least two enterprise technology or process implementations.
• Certification in a recognized change methodology, such as Prosci Certified Change Practitioner or ACMP Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP).
• Experience conducting readiness assessments, stakeholder analyses, and change impact assessments and turning them into actionable plans.
• Experience defining and reporting adoption metrics to senior leadership.
• Ability to pass the client's contractor security vetting and obtain and maintain a Public Trust credential.

Desired Skills and Competencies:

• Experience leading change in federal agencies, ideally in acquisition, finance, or other operations functions.

• Experience supporting technology pilots and phased rollouts where adoption data informs go/no-go decisions.

• Master's degree in organizational development or a related field.

Additional Information:

Employment for this position is contingent upon the candidate being a United States citizen and having the ability to successfully obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance, in accordance with applicable federal regulations. We use AI to review resumes. All hiring decisions will be made in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.

The pay range for this role is:
110,000 - 115,000 USD per year(Hybrid)