Vice President, Enterprise Change Management

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Easterseals Southern California transforms lives every day. For over a century, Easterseals has championed inclusion and independence-delivering essential services like early childhood programs, autism services, employment and independent living support to more than 29,000 people each year. Through advocacy and education, we break barriers and create opportunities for the one-in-four Americans with disabilities. Reporting to the COO, this executive leader designs and drives the organization's enterprise-wide approach to change-ensuring initiatives across service lines and shared services are aligned, scalable, and built for lasting impact. You'll partner closely with senior leaders to prioritize and sequence critical initiatives, balancing strategy with operational reality so the organization can adapt without disrupting the quality of care. As a trusted advisor, you'll influence enterprise decision-making by assessing risk, readiness, and adoption-guiding leaders through complex transformation across clinical, operational, and corporate functions. Through governance, collaboration, and leadership development, you will strengthen organizational agility and ensure change translates into meaningful, sustainable outcomes for teams and the communities they serve. This is a high-impact role for a strategic, forward-thinking leader who thrives on shaping how an organization grows, adapts, and delivers on its mission. Hiring Range: $200k -$240k OVERVIEW OF POSITION: The Vice President, Enterprise Change Management is responsible for defining and leading the organization's enterprise-wide change strategy in support of ESSC's mission, operational effectiveness, and long-term organizational sustainability. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, this executive role ensures the organization has a disciplined, scalable approach to leading changes across service lines and shared services in a complex healthcare and nonprofit environment. This position has enterprise-wide scope and accountability and partners with executive, operational, and service line leaders to align change priorities with strategic objectives, workforce capacity, business readiness, and the needs of the communities served. The role helps shape how major initiatives are sequenced, governed, and implemented so the organization can absorb change effectively while maintaining continuity of services, quality, compliance, and support for frontline teams. The Vice President serves as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on change implications, enterprise risk, stakeholder readiness, and adoption strategy across clinical, operational, administrative, and support functions. While the role may oversee a small internal team, its impact is achieved primarily through enterprise influence, governance, and the mobilization of leaders and resources embedded across the service lines. This role is accountable for strengthening organizational agility, building leadership capability, and ensuring change efforts translate into sustained outcomes for associates, leaders, and the people and communities the organization serves. In all responsibilities, the position demonstrates a strong commitment to ESSC's mission and values by supporting a high-quality, person-centered service environment. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Defines and leads the enterprise change management strategy, framework, standards, and governance model to support organizational priorities, transformation efforts, regulatory expectations, and long-term sustainability. Ensures activities, strategies, and initiatives within the scope of the role are carried out in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, accreditation standards, and organizational policies and procedures. Advises executive leadership on change-related risks, interdependencies, sequencing, readiness, and organizational capacity to improve strategic decision-making and execution across diverse service lines and support functions. Establishes enterprise governance and portfolio oversight mechanisms that help leaders prioritize initiatives, mitigate change saturation, and align resources to the highest-value efforts while protecting service continuity and workforce capacity. Promotes sound fiscal stewardship in enterprise change planning by helping leaders align initiative sequencing, resource deployment, and implementation approaches with organizational priorities, budget considerations, and long-term sustainability. Serves as the executive leader for enterprise change management, partnering with senior leaders to shape large-scale transformation, operating model evolution, and complex cross-functional initiatives affecting care delivery, support services, systems, and administrative operations. Influences service line and functional leaders to embed change leadership, local ownership, and accountability into initiative planning and execution across varied operational settings and workforce groups. Ensures enterprise change efforts