Executive Coach - Contingent
About The Position
McGarity is seeking an experienced Executive Coach for a contingent leadership-development engagement serving supervisors and emerging leaders within a major City Streets and Sanitation department. The program may serve up to two cohorts of approximately 25 participants each during the contract year. The coach will provide confidential, one-on-one virtual coaching to a smaller group of City-selected participants annually. The opportunity is contingent upon McGarity receiving the City contract. Inclusion on the proposed project team does not guarantee a subcontract, assignments, a minimum number of coaching participants, or minimum compensation. The coach will help participants translate leadership-development concepts into observable workplace behaviors and practical development plans. This is a remote position.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience providing one-on-one leadership or executive coaching.
- Experience coaching supervisors, managers, emerging leaders, or high-potential employees.
- Strong knowledge of leadership development, interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, accountability, and behavioral change.
- Ability to establish trust and coach individuals from varied professional, educational, and personal backgrounds.
- Experience developing actionable individual-development plans.
- Excellent listening, questioning, facilitation, and feedback skills.
- Ability to deliver coaching effectively in a virtual environment.
- Strong professional judgment and commitment to confidentiality.
- Ability to collaborate with a multidisciplinary consulting team while maintaining the integrity of the coaching relationship.
- Availability during the anticipated contract period and flexibility to accommodate participant schedules.
Nice To Haves
- A recognized coaching credential, such as an International Coaching Federation credential, Center for Creative Leadership certification, or comparable leadership or executive-coaching credential.
- Experience coaching within municipal government, public works, sanitation, transportation, utilities, or another operational public-sector environment.
- Experience working with first-line supervisors and mid-level managers.
- Experience administering or debriefing 360-degree assessments.
- Familiarity with succession planning, competency frameworks, and leadership-readiness assessment.
- Experience supporting cohort-based leadership-development programs.
- Knowledge of Philadelphia government or experience working with comparable urban public agencies.
- Graduate education in organizational development, leadership, psychology, human resources, public administration, or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Provide confidential, one-on-one coaching through a secure virtual platform.
- Conduct an initial coaching intake and establish development objectives with each participant.
- Help participants create practical leadership-development plans aligned with their roles and career goals.
- Coach participants in leadership presence and self-awareness, communication and interpersonal effectiveness, conflict management, decision-making and accountability, team leadership and employee engagement, inclusive leadership, data-informed management, organizational communication, readiness for increased responsibility, and succession and career-development planning.
- Interpret and debrief 360-degree assessment results when applicable.
- Help participants convert assessment feedback into specific, measurable development actions.
- Reinforce concepts introduced through the leadership-development curriculum.
- Maintain appropriate boundaries between coaching, supervision, therapy, and performance management.
- Protect the confidentiality of coaching conversations while providing permissible aggregate participation and progress information to McGarity.
- Identify concerns outside the coaching relationship and follow established escalation protocols.
- Coordinate scheduling and program alignment with McGarity’s project manager and leadership-development team.
- Contribute observations about common development needs without identifying individual participants.
- Maintain accurate records of scheduled and completed coaching sessions.
- Participate in periodic project-team meetings and program reviews as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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