OCM & LMS Transformation Lead - Contingent

We are sourcing a contingent OCM — LMS Transformation Lead for an upcoming proposal with a national healthcare association. This opportunity is contingent upon receiving the client contract. Inclusion on the proposed project team does not guarantee a subcontract, start date, minimum number of hours, or minimum compensation. You will lead the people, process, governance, communications, training, and adoption activities associated with the client’s transition to a new LMS. A separate technology vendor will implement the platform. This role will work closely with that vendor while leading the organizational changes necessary for successful adoption. This hands-on role combines change strategy, project leadership, stakeholder facilitation, business-process design, communications, training, readiness assessment, and implementation support. Key Responsibilities - Serve as the day-to-day lead for OCM activities. - Develop and execute a practical change-management strategy and work plan. - Apply a recognized change framework while adapting it to the client’s culture, capacity, and implementation timeline. - Facilitate discussions with executive leaders, work groups, program teams, technical staff, and external learners. - Develop stakeholder maps, impact assessments, readiness assessments, risk registers, and adoption plans. - Help establish governance, decision rights, roles, responsibilities, and accountability for the client’s learning portfolio. - Facilitate alignment among teams with different programs, audiences, funding requirements, and working practices. - Support the development of consistent processes for free, member-based, and fee-based learning programs. - Help define which content belongs in the LMS and which should remain on websites, community platforms, events, or other channels. - Develop practical tools for prioritizing, updating, consolidating, archiving, retiring, and migrating content. - Work with the LMS vendor to define and document staff and learner workflows. - Coordinate organizational aspects of user acceptance testing, including participant selection, scenarios, feedback, and readiness findings. - Develop internal and external communications plans supporting the LMS transition and launch. - Design and deliver role-based staff training, job aids, videos, checklists, and support materials. - Help prepare staff and learners for go-live and identify interventions for adoption risks. - Support early post-launch evaluation, feedback collection, issue prioritization, and continuous improvement. - Transfer tools, processes, and responsibilities to client staff before engagement close. - Maintain project documentation and provide timely status, risk, decision, and progress reporting. Required Qualifications - Demonstrated experience leading organizational change for an LMS, enterprise learning platform, or comparable technology implementation. - Experience with learning and training program development and LMS implementation or use. - Proven success creating and executing stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness, and adoption plans. - Strong facilitation skills with the ability to build alignment across teams with differing priorities. - Experience documenting workflows, roles, decision rights, governance processes, and operating procedures. - Ability to coordinate effectively with technical implementation vendors without duplicating technical responsibilities. - Experience planning or coordinating user acceptance testing. - Strong project-management, analytical, writing, and presentation skills. - Ability to manage multiple workstreams within a compressed implementation schedule. - Availability throughout the anticipated project period - December 2026–June 30, 2027, with a possible short extension through August 2027 Preferred Qualifications - Experience with healthcare associations, nonprofit membership organizations, healthcare education, federally funded programs, or similarly complex organizations. - Experience aligning decentralized learning or professional-development programs. - Familiarity with learning-content inventories, migration planning, learner journeys, learning pathways, and evaluation. - Experience developing governance or pricing frameworks for free, member-based, and fee-based education. - Experience developing role-based training videos and digital support resources. - Familiarity with ADKAR, Prosci, Kotter, or another established change-management methodology. - Change-management, project-management, instructional-design, or learning-technology certification. - Experience working with geographically dispersed stakeholders and external learner populations. Flexible work from home options available. Originally posted on Himalayas