Organizational Development + Change Management Specialist

• Serve as the overall delivery lead across two sequential phases: first the OGPS Organizational Redesign and Leadership Succession Planning effort; then the OPLIA Mission Execution Support Services effort. Maintain continuity of leadership methods lessons learned and team performance as the engagement transitions from Section I to Section II.
• Act as a trusted advisor and primary senior-level interface with FDA leadership and the COR; anticipate stakeholder concerns navigate competing priorities and organizational dynamics and communicate issues tradeoffs and decisions with discretion and professionalism.
• Mobilize Section I rapidly and Support current-state organizational assessments through document review structured interviews surveys workload/capacity analysis functional analysis and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative findings.
• Develop and evaluate future-state organizational design concepts including functional alignment reporting relationships management layers spans of control roles decision rights organizational capabilities and operating-model considerations.
• Apply organizational development and change management methods to assess change impacts stakeholder readiness adoption risks communication needs and implementation dependencies associated with proposed organizational changes.
• Develop practical change and implementation approaches that help leadership move from assessment findings to action including sequencing milestones dependencies risk mitigation success measures and sustainment considerations.
• Support leadership succession and workforce planning activities by assessing organizational capabilities continuity risks knowledge dependencies role alignment development needs and opportunities for cross-training or role realignment.
• Facilitate or co-facilitate leadership sessions working sessions organizational design discussions and roles-and-responsibilities engagements that build shared understanding and support constructive decision-making.
• Support Section II mission execution activities including workload and mission prioritization functional mapping R&R clarification coordination mechanisms workforce planning and implementation roadmap development.
• Ensure assessment and change products are balanced evidence-based and constructive recognizing organizational strengths and employee concerns while clearly distinguishing analysis and recommendations from federal personnel decisions.
• Develop and quality-review leadership-ready reports frameworks organizational models roadmaps briefing materials and other deliverables; maintain traceability from evidence to findings and recommendations.
• Coordinate closely with the Leadership/Succession Planning Mission Support SME and other team members to manage assigned workstreams dependencies risks schedules and quality within firm-fixed-price delivery constraints.
  establish the delivery approach staffing model governance cadence master schedule quality process communications plan risk registry and clear ownership of deliverables and dependencies. Prepare the team for an efficient transition into Section II without loss of momentum or institutional knowledge.
• Manage a dense portfolio of tightly sequenced deliverables within each phase maintaining traceability from current-state evidence to recommendations and ensuring that downstream products are built on validated findings. Balance near-term delivery demands with preparation for the next phase of work.
• Lead and oversee organizational assessment activities including document review structured interviews surveys workload analysis FTE/capacity analysis federal benchmarking organizational structure review functional mapping decision-rights analysis and identification of organizational strengths gaps duplication fragmentation and misalignment.
• Design and facilitate sensitive interviews leadership retreats cross-organizational working sessions and roles-and-responsibilities clarity engagements in a manner that builds trust reduces defensiveness surfaces candid information and recognizes that staff may be concerned about how assessment findings could affect their roles.
• Ensure assessment products are balanced evidence-based and constructiveclearly distinguishing facts observations risks and recommendations; identifying strengths and capabilities to preserve as well as opportunities to improve; and avoiding unsupported overly categorical or unnecessarily harsh conclusions.
• Lead development and quality review of future-state organizational alternatives organizational design principles and evaluation criteria process and operating improvement recommendations implementation roadmaps leadership capability requirements succession planning frameworks workforce planning analyses coordination protocols and mission-positioning communications.
• Maintain strict boundaries between contractor advisory support and federal decision-making. Ensure the team does not conduct formal performance appraisals determine personnel actions direct federal staff make workforce or organizational decisions or otherwise perform inherently governmental functions.
• Own FFP delivery discipline by managing scope level of effort staffing schedule and quality against the agreed requirements; identify scope creep and resource pressure early; evaluate the feasibility of ad hoc requests; and elevate recommended tradeoffs before commitments create delivery risk.
• Oversee preparation and timely submission of the Program Management Plan Monthly Status Reports meeting agendas and minutes action-item trackers risk updates executive briefings and other required or ad hoc deliverables; manage Government review comments revisions and acceptance.
• Provide hands-on leadership and quality assurance to a compact multidisciplinary team of approximately five staff during Section I spanning organizational development workforce/human capital research/data analysis facilitation communications and project management capabilities. Plan and execute the teams transition into Section II and support onboarding or integration of an additional team member if the staffing model expands.
• Ensure sensitive organizational personnel staffing and PII-related information is handled appropriately and that all project activities comply with applicable FDA/HHS privacy security records-management and confidentiality requirements.
• Support remote hybrid and on-site project activities at FDA facilities as required including leadership sessions interviews organizational assessment activities and cross-organizational engagements.

• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in organizational development change management management consulting organizational transformation human capital or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience supporting organizational assessments organizational redesign operating-model changes workforce planning or enterprise transformation initiatives for U.S. Federal Government clients.
• Strong knowledge of organizational design concepts including functional alignment organizational capabilities role clarity decision rights management layers and spans of control process handoffs and implementation sequencing.
• Practical experience applying change management methods to stakeholder readiness change impact adoption communications resistance transition and sustainment activities.
• Experience conducting structured interviews surveys workshops or other qualitative research and synthesizing findings into clear defensible organizational recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate sensitive organizational discussions with leaders and staff in a neutral respectful and trust-preserving manner.
• Excellent analytical writing briefing and presentation skills with experience producing decision-ready reports frameworks roadmaps and executive-level materials.
• Working knowledge of contractor advisory boundaries and inherently governmental functions particularly for workforce personnel organizational and leadership matters.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced high-visibility environment with compressed schedules interdependent deliverables and evolving stakeholder priorities.

• Direct experience supporting FDA HHS or another federal headquarters or regulatory organization.
• Experience supporting leadership succession planning organizational capability assessment knowledge continuity workforce alignment or human capital planning.
• Experience developing organizational design alternatives RACI/decision-rights frameworks implementation roadmaps change impact assessments or operating-model recommendations.
• Experience supporting federal benchmarking FTE/capacity analysis workload analysis or mission prioritization efforts.
• Change management or organizational development certification or credential (e.g. Prosci CCMP SHRM HRCI or comparable) is a plus.
• Experience transitioning organizational transformation work from assessment/design into implementation and sustainment.

• Bachelors degree in Organizational Development Business Administration Public Administration Management Human Capital/Human Resources Industrial/Organizational Psychology or a related field.
• Masters degree in a related discipline is preferred.

• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Public Trust clearance. Due to contract requirements candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (green card holders) to be eligible.
• No agencies third parties or Corp-to-Corp submissions.

• $120000 - $150000
• Salary commensurate with experience.

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