Organizational Effectiveness Specialist, EPIC Project

Job Description

Position Title: Organizational Effectiveness Specialist, EPIC Project

Position Summary:

TRG is seeking a highly-motivated and dynamic individual to serve as an Organizational Effectiveness specialist. This individual will support an initiative that provides organizational development, facilitation, professional development, knowledge management, and communications services for a large international development agency working in the education sector.

The OE specialist will collaboratively plan, manage and implement activities under the Organizational Effectiveness Portfolio. This portfolio will co-design and co-facilitate with the project team and client innovative, creative, and effective approaches to strengthen individual staff, team, cross team and whole-of-office effectiveness in reaching education goals.

The ideal candidates will be able to draw upon the latest art and science of organizational change/transformation as well as draw upon the capacities and experiences of the client. S/he should have demonstrated capacity to work at different “levels”: global system, agency-institutional/bureau, office, teams, leadership, and staff. In addition, the ideal candidate will have a working knowledge of efficient work flow processes as well as the nuances of organizational culture change. S/he will have excellent oral and written communication skills. This position will work within a team to support a fast paced, multi-faceted U.S. Government (USG) funded project. Candidates must be able to prioritize tasks and work effectively both independently as well as part of a team.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

Organizational Effectiveness:

• Support the project/client’s overall strategy on organizational effectiveness, and to help design and facilitate the practice of collaborative adaptive learning.
• Collaborate with the Executive Team and 8 different work streams, co-facilitating their annual and quarterly planning and reflection/reviews, and serving as an advisor in their team development.
• Collaborate with the project team and client to develop and implement: leadership development, management training, individual coaching, cross team synergies and overall office effectiveness.
• Manage production of high quality technical documents
• Plan, coordinate, and manage key meetings and events with education sector stakeholders
• Ensure lessons learned and best practices for OE activities are clear and documented
• Advise the office on the improvement of key work-flow processes and standard operating procedures.
• Support webinars, workshops, dialogues, web-casts, social media outreach, and other engagement/communication modalities as a means to strategically and innovatively draw upon the views and experiences of country programs
• Recommend processes and approaches for monitoring, evaluating, and learning vis-à-vis the organizational effectiveness strategy
• Innovative ways to communicate and sustain the change process

Qualifications, Abilities, and Education Requirements:

• A degree in Organizational Development or related field
• 8+ years’ experience in executing successful OD strategies
• Experience engaging with key stakeholders and building partnerships
• Experience working with different OD tools and approaches with different clients
• Excellent program/activity management skills
• Advanced written and oral communication skills
• Creative problem-solving and ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Good team working skills;
• Ability to deliver high quality products under pressure;
• Excellent written and spoken English;
• Approval to work in the United States

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Prior experience working with USAID or on USAID-funded contracts.
• Experience adding and editing content on websites
• Experience or interest in global education programs.

TRG is an equal employment opportunity employer M/F/D/V. We adhere to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age or disability. We assure you that your opportunity for employment with TRG depends solely on your qualifications.

About the Organization

Training Resources Group, Inc. is an employee-owned consulting firm based in Arlington, Virginia. TRG provides organizational development and training services for U.S. government agencies, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and private sector/commercial clients.