Organizational Development Consultant

The Organization Development Consultant is a senior-level individual contributor who partners with leaders HR Business Partners and enterprise stakeholders to diagnose organizational needs and design practical solutions that improve organizational effectiveness and business performance.

The role applies Organization Development expertise across organization design operating model effectiveness team and leadership effectiveness change and transformation workforce planning and related organizational interventions.

The consultant looks beyond the presenting request to identify root causes patterns dependencies and enterprise implications then recommends an approach grounded in business need readiness risk and expected value.

Operating with a broad perspective and leadership without direct authority the consultant connects people ideas decisions and related bodies of work helping leaders and partners understand how the pieces fit together and address important dependencies gaps and organizational implications.

Depending on scope and complexity the consultant may lead an engagement directly coordinate work across multiple contributors and workstreams or equip leaders and HR partners with the tools and guidance needed to execute and sustain the solution.

This role can be remote within the United States.

Job Description

Lead complex organization effectiveness engagements from intake through sustainment bringing an enterprise and systems perspective to business priorities.

Assessment Diagnosis and Contracting

• Conduct intake and contracting discussions to clarify the business need desired outcomes scope stakeholders decision makers timing risks dependencies constraints and measures of success.

• Apply organizational assessment and diagnostic practices to distinguish symptoms from root causes recognize patterns across the system test assumptions and identify the appropriate intervention rather than defaulting to a requested solution.

Integrated Initiative Leadership

• Bring a whole-system perspective to complex initiatives recognizing connections across related projects workstreams stakeholders decisions dependencies organizational impacts and competing demands.

• Connect people ideas data and bodies of work that may sit outside the consultants direct scope; surface gaps overlaps downstream implications and risks that others may not see; and help establish shared direction and coordinated action.

• Use influence facilitation and sound judgment to create clarity strengthen alignment and accountability facilitate decisions and help move complex work forward without relying on positional authority.

Organization Strategy Design and Ways of Working

• Lead organization design and operating model engagements that may include current-state assessment design criteria structure work design roles accountabilities governance decision rights interfaces talent implications and implementation planning.

• Translate business strategy into practical organizational capabilities and ways of working that improve alignment agility coordination decision quality and execution.

Leadership and Team Effectiveness

• Design and facilitate interventions that strengthen leadership alignment team clarity relationships collaboration accountability decision making and performance.

• Guide leadership teams and cross-functional groups through complex ambiguous or sensitive discussions organizational decisions problem solving and alignment.

Change Readiness and Sustainment

• Integrate change practices into broader organizational interventions to strengthen stakeholder engagement readiness adoption reinforcement and sustainability.
• Assess cumulative impacts interdependencies workforce implications and organizational capacity; transition completed work to the appropriate business or HR owner with clear sustainment accountabilities.

Workforce Strategy and Planning

• Support workforce planning and future-readiness work by connecting business strategy to capability skill role capacity and talent implications.

• Use data scenarios and organizational insight to help leaders consider how changing business needs technology automation and artificial intelligence may affect work and the workforce.

Consulting Partnership and Capability Building

• Serve as a trusted consultant to leaders and HR partners providing strategic insight constructive challenge facilitation and practical recommendations.

• Partner across HR and the enterprise to determine the appropriate delivery model clarify roles and engagement expectations and integrate related expertise into executable solutions.

• Build capability in leaders and HR partners through frameworks tools coaching and consultation enabling others to address organizational effectiveness needs independently when appropriate.

Engagement and Portfolio Discipline

• Manage multiple concurrent engagements with discipline around scope priorities milestones stakeholders decisions deliverables risks outcomes and closeout.

• Maintain visibility to engagement health dependencies risks and leadership attention needs; proactively surface implications across the broader OE portfolio and provide insight that supports prioritization and sequencing decisions.

Measurement Learning and Practice Development

• Establish success measures at the beginning of an engagement across relevant business organizational effectiveness employee experience and behavior outcomes; treat readiness as a leading indicator when appropriate.

• Evaluate impact and value monitor sustainability use evidence and feedback to adjust solutions and contribute to the continuous improvement of Organization Effectiveness methods tools standards and ways of working.

• Stay current on Organization Development and Organization Effectiveness research and emerging practices translating them into accessible pragmatic business solutions.

• Models Thrivents leadership competencies - Model the Way Rally the Team and Deliver Outcomes.

• Supports an environment focused on continuous improvement employee engagement partnership and an unwavering commitment to clients. Models Thrivents purpose promise and values and helps protect the organizations trust and reputation.

Pay Transparency

Thrivents long-term growth depends on attracting rewarding and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract reward and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $109268.00 - $147832.00 per year which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to location relevant experience skills and knowledge business needs market demand and other factors Thrivent deems important.

Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.

The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including for example annual or long-term incentives); medical dental and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivents plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivents discretion.

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race religion color sex gender identity sexual orientation pregnancy national origin age disability marital status citizenship status military or veteran status genetic information or any other status protected by applicable local state or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation please let us know by sending an email toor calland request Human Resources.

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