Virginia Tech-posted 2 months ago
Full-time • Entry Level
Blacksburg, VA
Educational Services

Virginia Tech's Organizational Excellence (OE) team serves as the trusted internal partner to university leaders as they seek to bring about meaningful transformative change, achieve overall excellence in their respective areas and across the university, and make significant progress toward strategic goals. We are actively recruiting dynamic organizational transformation professionals to help advance university priorities, support leaders in initiatives that positively transform the culture of our work and university and serve as a collaborative and engaged organizational excellence team members. We have several open positions, at multiple levels (transformation leader, facilitator, associate) and welcome applications from transformation professionals, including early-, mid-, and senior-career levels. This work is done as part of an in-person team based on our Blacksburg, Virginia campus. As Virginia Tech continues to advance its strategic plan and excel as a worldwide destination for talent, learning, research, discovery, and community engagement it is committed to building capacity to adapt as a university in response to a changing landscape of higher education. In support of bold strategic goals, the university also continues to look inward and adopt innovative approaches to maximizing value for its many stakeholders.

  • Provide expert analysis, best practice research, and innovation ideas.
  • Advance transformational initiatives.
  • Advise and coach senior leaders.
  • Facilitate complex projects and group initiatives.
  • Primary responsibility for assigned internal transformation projects, including project scoping, high level project planning, project management, issue identification, collaborative solutions design, implementation planning, creation of project deliverables.
  • Development of materials such as project plans, schedules, agendas, client materials, reports, data resources and analyses, collateral, information, and resulting presentations.
  • Managing project meetings, conducting assessments, requesting and reviewing relevant data and information, developing and presenting findings and recommendations to leaders and stakeholders.
  • Advising on change management perspectives in transformation projects.
  • Participating in Organizational Excellence team operations, supporting functionality and practice of the team.
  • Experience in organizational transformation initiatives, change management, and/or leadership.
  • Ability to build and maintain effective, collaborative relationships with both colleagues and clients.
  • Experience maintaining professional expectations in working with sensitive and/or confidential information.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Bachelor's degree.
  • Experience working in a highly complex, decentralized organization.
  • Change Management practitioner certification (Prosci or similar).
  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Participation in university shared governance.
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