Senior Consultant, Advisory - Organizational Psychology

AECOM•Mississauga, ON

22d•CA$99,000 - CA$140,000•Hybrid

About The Position

AECOM is seeking a Senior Advisory Consultant Organizational Psychology to support the growth of its Organizational Dynamics expertise within the Strategy & Transformation practice in Toronto. This role is for someone passionate about the human aspect of project delivery, who recognizes that project success relies on the behaviors of the people delivering those projects, and is excited to explore ways for developing high-performing teams. The ideal candidate will have a blend of real-world experience and theory, a passion for challenging traditional wisdom, boardroom polish, grassroots hustle, and comfort blurring the lines between rigor and creativity. You will join a multidisciplinary team of strategists, designers, architects, data analysts, and other organizational specialists to support projects for world-class corporations, agencies, institutions, and local and federal governments. This is a newly created position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in a related field, including but not limited to industrial/organizational psychology, business administration, behavioural science or human resources
6 years of experience in organization design, collaborative behavioral assessments, change management and developing and implementing new ways of thinking and working or demonstrated equivalency of experience and education
Thought provoking questions
Comfortable wading into ambiguous problems
Ability to take ownership
Critical thinker
Specialized experience in one or more of the following areas: Organizational psychology, behavioural economics and change management; Workforce planning, operations and capability development, human resources; Management consulting and / or corporate strategy; Data analytics & modeling; User research, synthesis of qualitative data and generating insights
Broader comfort and ability to work within many of these areas

Nice To Haves

Experience in other consulting firms or management consultancies
Experience in the built environment, infrastructure or architecture and engineering industry
Membership to the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (CSIOP) or similar international accreditation
Successfully applied organizational psychology or behavioural economics principles in past projects

Responsibilities

Helping clients to shape and act on change strategies for complex organizational challenges to capitalize on value-creating opportunities
Assess organizational capabilities, structures and processes and develop the future capabilities, competencies and critical roles that enable an organization’s 5-10 year strategy
Design and activate organizational interventions to encourage collaboration across siloed organizations
Generate new opportunities by thinking creatively about financial and operational impacts, risks, experiments, data and other drivers
Translate behavioural research into insights that can be easily communicated to your collaborators and clients to inspire possible solutions
Craft research plans comprised of interviews, workshops, analogous industries and organizations to understand an organization’s working dynamics and surface opportunity areas
Shape and act on change strategies that may start small, and lead to long-term impact at scale
Design tools, methodologies and frameworks that address strategic and organizational issues and foster new ways of thinking and working
Shape AECOM’s perspective on organizational strategy