Senior Organizational Development (OD) Specialist, DEVELOP

Position Description

EnCompass LLC is seeking a Senior Organizational Development (OD) Specialist to lead, manage, design, facilitate and evaluate organizational development interventions for the Designing Effective Evidence-based Engagement and Learning for Organizational Performance (DEVELOP) project. As the technical expert and OD workstream lead, the Senior OD Specialist works closely with the Deputy Director and USAID stakeholders to co-create processes, tools, and structures that enhance organizational effectiveness.

The Senior OD Specialist is a skilled project manager and facilitator capable of serving as client-facing point of contact for on-demand activities as well as designing/delivering Professional Development (PD) offerings as needed.

For the foreseeable future, EnCompass is using a hybrid work model where most positions are remote with voluntary in-person attendance at the office. The exceptions to this model include scenarios such as if the client requires the role to be in-person. Candidates located in the DMV area who can attend onsite activities are encouraged to apply.

Must be legally authorized to work in the US for any employer without sponsorship.

Position Duties and Responsibilities

Essential functions:

Technical

• Designs, delivers, and evaluates organizational development (OD) activities including but not limited to strategic planning, assessments, team building, retreats, change management, co-creation workshops, and facilitation of learning and other events
• Works with the Deputy Director and USAID client groups to conceptualize, assess, design, and implement change based on identified needs (e.g., organizational structure, ways of working, organizational culture/climate, processes)
• Brings creative, leading-edge thinking, methodologies, and approaches to a range of organizational development, leadership development programs
• Prepares facilitation designs and leads face-to-face, virtually, and/or hybrid workshops and retreats in an engaging, participative, and collaborative manner
• Leads collaborative processes for conducting staff and stakeholder engagement (e.g., stakeholder mapping, consultative processes)
• Effectively communicates progress on complex organizational development project deliverables to clients, team members, and other stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
• Ensures integration of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender equality, and social inclusion lenses in all OD interventions
• Implements OD-related monitoring and reporting activities that inform MEL and CLA processes and project reports in ways that demonstrate progress against project results in consultation with project colleagues and experts
• Collaborates with, and provides technical support to, activity teams across the project that result in greater integration and complementarity of efforts
• Develops and documents good, emergent, and best practices to improve organizational performance and effectiveness, as well as systems to integrate the lessons across project workstreams

Management

• Manages organizational development projects from design to implementation to evaluation, including scope, budget, timeline, and quality assurance for assigned activities
• Manages activities, including engagement with clients, and members of the DEVELOP core and extended teams

Other

• Engages fully as a member of the EnCompass staff team, including participating in staff meetings and other EnCompass events, and providing support to other team members as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Position Requirements

Qualifications

Academic Qualifications

• Minimum of a Master’s degree and ten years of experience, Bachelor’s degree and twelve years of experience, or an Associate’s degree and fourteen years of relevant work experience
• Certificate or Degree in Organizational Development, Change Management, Coaching, Leadership Development, Human-centered Design, International Development or related fields

Experience and Skills

• 10+ years work experience within organizational development, strategic planning, international education, international development or related field required
• Expertise in leading-edge thinking, methodologies and approaches in organizational development, leadership development, team effectiveness, including leadership assessments (360s, MBTI, StrengthsFinder, DISC, and/or other assessments)- qualification preferred
• Ability to work in a language other than English (strongly preferred)
• Experience successfully designing and facilitating engaging and effective organizational development interventions employing foundational and cutting-edge approaches to meet the needs of the client group
• Experience successfully leading and implementing high visibility projects, in a complex environment with multiple tasks from ideation through implementation
• Extensive knowledge of the field of organizational development, including state-of-the-art diagnostic methodologies with a proven ability to analyze and use various forms of data
• Proven experience identifying and framing needs and opportunities, setting priorities, making critical assessments and identifying creative solutions
• Strong planning, organization, critical and strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• An appetite for learning, curiosity, and a willingness to experiment in new ways of working, including sensing, ideating, prototyping, implementing, evaluating, and communicating
• Committed to providing the highest level of service while challenging the status quo through organizational development interventions
• Exceptional presentation, communication (verbal and written), facilitation, and consensus-building skills
• Knowledge of Appreciative Inquiry and ability to apply it in designs, client engagement, and all professional processes preferred
• Adaptive, collaborative, complexity-oriented, and strengths-based leadership style, including cultivating peer to peer learning so that capabilities are shared across the team
• Ability to bring a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lens to all designs and deliveries
• Ability to bring a gender equality and social inclusion lens to all designs and deliveries
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to juggle and prioritize multiple, competing tasks and demands and to seek supervisory assistance as appropriate
• Committed to providing the highest level of service