Organizational development consultant job description

Job Purpose

The Senior Organizational Development Consultant plays a key role in ensuring the development and advancement of an empowered, inclusive, values-driven workplace culture, and actively plans for, addresses, and forecasts future talent and culture needs. The consultant reinforces strategy and initiatives that enable all associates to engage and align to the business mission, vision and strategy. In this role the consultant is responsible for managing and supporting organizational processes and leading change management activities that are designed to create our associate value proposition; using assessments, coaching and communications; reviewing data and analytics; and developing and recommending action and change management plans with leaders.

Essential Responsibilities

Continues to evolve and integrate Jackson's Values into human capital activities and processes in order to foster new behaviors and ways of working that are required to deliver the business priorities.Identifies core cultural attributes and monitors the impact of culture on business and human capital outcomes, identifying areas for further development.Drives the business ownership of the culture transformation and associate engagement through influencing, educating and managing key stakeholders.Identifies and recommends opportunities to improve and align supporting systems; creates and implements an integrated approach to talent and culture management.Works with leaders and managers to engage with multiple sources of feedback and to develop actionable plans to drive engagement, development, and cultural capabilities.Works with leaders and SMEs to identify organizational goals, plans, and human capital needs in order to accomplish business objectives.Designs and implements integrated leadership development solutions including, executive coaching, development planning, succession management, 360 feedback, and leadership programs. Equips and supports all levels of associates to successfully adopt change in order to implement strategy and initiatives that enable all associates to engage and align to the business mission, vision, values and strategy.Develops strategic business relationships in support of change initiatives across the organization.Leads and facilitates meetings, focus groups, and other working sessions to help solve difficult problems, align disparate viewpoints, gather data and build capabilities.Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure all are working toward common goals, establishing agreement around intended outcomes/results, and assessing and adjusting the organization's direction in response to a changing environment.Works with leaders and associates at all levels, as appropriate, with the goal of driving appropriate human capital development solutions.Researches and recommends the use of vendor-based solutions for organizational, talent development and performance improvement programs and initiatives.Provides regular reporting on assessments, change initiatives, development evaluations, effectiveness, and impact on business goals and objectives.Provides coaching and consultation with high potential leaders, focused on effective development planning and execution.Manages sensitive and/or confidential data appropriately.

Other Duties

Performs other duties and/or projects as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Experience working with leadership to facilitate cultural transformation for large initiatives.Proven ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment and manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.Strong leadership skills and outstanding written and oral communication and collaboration skills.Exceptional interpersonal and influence skills.Proven ability to conduct needs analysis, ensuring that solutions address the correct root cause, and that the impact to the business is measurable.Strong knowledge and understanding of talent and performance management, culture, organizational development, and HR practices.Proven ability to work with leaders at all levels, as a consultant, resource, coach and mentor.Strong understanding of succession and change management, and a demonstrated ability to develop and deliver programs for individuals at all levels of the organization.Strong coaching and facilitation skills, ability to leverage facilitator skill and experience, participant knowledge, and participation to maximize impact.Ability to manage multiple projects and processes, organize deliverables and resources, and prioritize details to meet deadlines.Ability to operate independently with limited oversight.Ability to travel 10-20%.

Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in HR, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience required.Master's Degree preferred.5+ years Related professional experience in an organizational or change management capacity, and talent or leadership development experience with experience in the assessment, development, delivery and measurement of succession and development programs required.8+ years Human Resources Experience preferred.

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Job Purpose and Impact

This role will often serve as the Organizational Development Lead on large, complex, global transformation programs. These transformation programs require that the role recommend and test new operating models, design and test new organizational structures, implement and sustain organization design and change management solutions, and do so in a Lead role that oversees teams staffed with organization design and change management consultants from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions. In this role, you will be an expert in the processes, tools and methodologies associated with organization design and change management. You will serve as both a program team leader and a hands-on practitioner supporting enterprises and functions to diagnose, propose, execute, and sustain organizational development solutions.

Key Accountabilities

* Provide strategic thought leadership and act as a consultant to oversee and accelerate organizational development projects.

* Lead organizational development project teams in the diagnosis, design and execution of organization design and change management workstreams.

* Achieve the desired business results and provide an excellent client experience.

* Nurture a strong continuous improvement culture to ensure deployment of scalable, simplified, and standardized processes.

* Provide expert thought leadership and work with limited direction.

* Provide direction and support team members while being a strategic contributor.

* Partner with corporate talent and performance to provide strategic thought, recommend appropriate solutions, align on solution design creation, lead delivery of solutions, and leverage existing global solutions and service providers.

* Define and monitor performance and service quality metrics in alignment with global human resources solutions and talent and performance strategic objectives.

* Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

* Proven consulting skills that drive high performance

* Strong leadership, stakeholder management and communications skills

* Minimum of six years of related work experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Organizational design experience from assessment to organization structure design and through implementation

* Program management experience including leading global engagement teams comprised of organizational development professionals

* 10 years of related consulting and/or human resources experience

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Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

Resources for Human Development (RHD) is currently seeking an Organizational Development Independent Contractor to provide OD consultation to our system of behavioral health and housing programs and intellectual and developmental disability programs in the New Orleans area. The imcumbent should be a resident of the specified geographic area or be willing to relocate.

This role will operate on a project basis (approximately 15-20 hours/month) at a rate of $55-$65/hour, based on experience.
Responsibilities/Duties

Management of OD related projects that support organizational effectiveness and alignment with overall corporate strategic plan

Working with programs, operational groups and leaders to support team development and conflict management

OD consultation designed for support of system change processes

Work-flow/process analysis, assessment and improvement

Provide Leadership development and executive coaching;

Facilitation of small and large group meetings, retreats, on-going working group meetings

Required Experience

2 years of organizational development experience

Prior experience providing consultation to staff working in non-profit and/or residential/community-based environments a plus.

Required Education

All candidates should have a Master's Degree in Social Work/Psychology, Organizational Development or related fields.

Required Qualifications

Ability to work collegially and constructively with people at all levels across the corporation; including point person on Corporate Learning and Development team

Able to maintain objectivity in the role of consultant;

Reliability, responsiveness and flexibility;

Eagerness and openness to learning;

Ability to think creatively and systemically, while also attending to details effectively;

Capacity to design and conduct trainings;

Ability to stay centered and constructive in the midst of chaos and change; and

Willingness to ask questions, listen for understanding, and integrate different perspectives for win/win outcomes.

Program Summary

RHD's mission is to empower the most vulnerable and marginalized members of society as they build the highest level of independence possible, building better lives for themselves, their families and their communities. From providing residential services for individuals with mental illness, intellectual and developmental disabilities, chemical addiction and those who are homeless to job training, assisted transportation, and crisis intervention, RHD provides individualized, quality assistance

RHD's Organizational Development Services include team development, change management/restructuring efforts, conflict management, coaching, facilitation of meetings and ongoing groups, and training.