Lead Organizational Effectiveness Specialist
About The Position
The Lead Organizational Effectiveness Specialist will join Guidehouse to support a public diplomacy office at the Department of State. In the last year, the client implemented a new project management and operating model to sustain a completed multi-year effort to modernize and restructure the Department’s public diplomacy sections at overseas embassies and consulates. To support this sustainment, the client uses Organizational Effectiveness Specialists to provide tools, training, and community building that enable public diplomacy professionals to do their jobs more effectively. As the Lead Organizational Effectiveness Specialist supporting this effort, you will join a team passionate about serving clients around the globe. Day to day, you will deliver targeted needs assessments and rapidly develop and deploy organizational effectiveness support for public diplomacy sections, drawing from industry best practices and standards. You will play a role developing and providing support to enhance individual and team performance, facilitate team development, develop leadership skills, and improve organizational processes for staff across all embassies and consulates, as well as internally for the client’s business units, adapting to organizational changes and optimizing their operational models. Additionally, you will, lead, mentor, and develop a team of Organizational Effectiveness Specialists, ensuring alignment of skills, workload, and performance standards across the project; oversee team workflow, resource planning, and prioritization to ensure timely, high‑quality delivery of products and client support; and, provide ongoing coaching, professional development guidance, and quality assurance to team members.
Requirements
- An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance
- Bachelors Degree
- SIX (6) years' experience in leadership development, process improvement, and content development and facilitation around improving individual, team or organizational performance including FOUR (4) years’ experience in executing, implementing, and sustaining organizational change.and leading teams.
Nice To Haves
- State Department experience (or other international agency)
- ICF Coaching certified
- Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
- Ability to provide assistance such as technical guidance and/or training to coworkers
- Ability to bridge cultural and language barriers while working with clients where English may be a second language
- Ability to learn and adopt concepts and strategies related to strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, audience analysis, best practices and techniques
- Ability to travel internationally to any location requested
- Prior consulting experience
- Ability to view problems from multiple angles and apply a variety of solutions to solving them
- Ability to professionally represent Guidehouse when participating and leading client-facing discussions and meetings
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent organizational, written, and oral communication skills
Responsibilities
- deliver targeted needs assessments and rapidly develop and deploy organizational effectiveness support for public diplomacy sections, drawing from industry best practices and standards
- play a role developing and providing support to enhance individual and team performance, facilitate team development, develop leadership skills, and improve organizational processes for staff across all embassies and consulates, as well as internally for the client’s business units, adapting to organizational changes and optimizing their operational models
- lead, mentor, and develop a team of Organizational Effectiveness Specialists, ensuring alignment of skills, workload, and performance standards across the project
- oversee team workflow, resource planning, and prioritization to ensure timely, high‑quality delivery of products and client support
- provide ongoing coaching, professional development guidance, and quality assurance to team members
Benefits
- Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
- Benefits include:
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Basic Life & Supplemental Life
- Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Student Loan PayDown
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
- Skills Development & Certifications
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
- Mobility Stipend
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
