About the role
Job Family: Operational Effectiveness Consulting Travel Required: Up to 10% Clearance Required: Active Secret What You Will Do: 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. What You Will Need: 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. , What Would Be