JOB SUMMARY:
Truth Initiative is seeking a Director, Organizational Development and Excellence to lead enterprise strategies and initiatives that strengthen organizational capability, employee growth, organizational effectiveness, learning, and change adoption. This position serves as the organization's lead subject-matter expert in Organizational Development and Learning & Development while also directing selected project-governance and Organizational Excellence work.
WHAT YOU'LL DO (*ESSENTIAL DUTIES):
Organizational Development and Design
- Lead organizational assessments and diagnose structural, capability, role-clarity, workflow, and team-effectiveness needs.*
- Advise leaders on job families, competencies, organizational capability, operating model improvements, and organizational design. *
- Facilitate team-effectiveness and organizational-changeinterventions. *
Careerand Talent Development
- Design and maintaincareer paths, job families, competency frameworks, and development expectations across all staff levels. *
- Partner with HR on talent reviews, high-potential development, retention strategies, and performance-system improvement. *
- Create talent development tools that help employees and managers understand advancement requirements, development opportunities, and lateral career options. *
Learning and Development
- Develop and execute an enterprise learning and talent development strategy aligned with strategic business priorities and employee feedback. *
- Design and oversee leadership development, manager training, professional-development, mentoring, coaching, and skills-building programs. *
- Lead Truth yoU, our internal learning management system (LMS), and establishlearning standards, curricula, vendor strategy, internal approaches, participation measures, and program evaluation. *
- Assess learning needs and measure capability, behavior, adoption, and organizational outcomes. *
Project Governance
- Develop and maintainenterprise project-governance standards, templates, dashboards, decision logs, risk and issue tracking, dependency management, and lessons-learned practices. *
- Support prioritization and governance of selected organizational effectiveness & improvement, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Facilitate project reviews, clarify ownership and decision rights, and escalate barriers requiring leadership action.
- Coach project owners and teams on planning, execution, stakeholder management, risk, measurement, and sustainability.
Change Management and Continuous Improvement
- Lead or advise on change strategies, stakeholder analyses, readiness, adoption, reinforcement, and sustainability.
- Facilitate cross-functional process improvement and continuous-improvementinitiatives from diagnosis through implementation and measurement.
- Integrate organizational development (OD) and learning solutions into enterprise transformation and improvement work.
Standard Operating Procedures and Knowledge Management
- Lead governance for developing, reviewing, approving, storing, maintaining, and periodically updating organization-wide standard operating procedures. *
- Create consistent SOP templates, ownership standards, repositories, version control, and review cycles with process owners. *
Measurement and Executive Advisory
- Establish baselines and dashboards for career development, learning, succession, leadership capability, organizational health, project delivery, and program outcomes. *
- Prepare decision-ready analysis and recommendations for the senior leaders cross functionally. *
- Use employee feedback, workforce data, business priorities, and external practices to prioritize OD and organizational effectiveness and improvement investment.
WHAT YOU BRING:
- Bachelor's degree required in Organizational Development, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Learning and Development, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum seven years progressive experience in Organizational Development, Learning & Development, or talent management
- Demonstrated experience designing career paths, job families, competencies, leadership or manager development, and organizational-design solutions.
- Demonstrated experience establishing project-governance practices or leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong adult-learning, instructional-design, facilitation, program-evaluation, change-management, organizational-diagnosis, and workforce-analytics capabilities.
- Ability to advise senior leaders, facilitate complex groups, influence without authority, and translate diagnosis into implementation.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This position is based in Washington, D.C. with a hybrid work schedule of three days in the office and two telework days.
COMPENSATION PACKAGE:
The salary range for this role is starting at $125,000-$130,000per year on a national basis.Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, relevant work experience, skillset, internal equity, location, and certifications, consistent with applicable law.Salaryis just one part of our total rewards package which additionally includes performance bonus for eligible roles, and competitive benefits.
Interested candidates should submit their cover letter and resume here
OR
mail application materials to:
Director, Organizational Development and Excellence
900 G Street, NW
Fourth Floor
Washington, DC 20001
Fax: (202) 204-5214
No telephone calls please.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or disability.
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Truth Initiative
Oct 15, 2026