Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SoftDev Incorporated is seeking a Senior Organizational Development Consultant / Executive Leadership Coach to support a potential federal contract with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This role involves providing strategic implementation, organizational development, and leadership decision-support services for cross-office compliance priorities.
Responsibilities
- Providing strategic implementation and leadership coordination support for cross-office compliance initiatives
- Facilitating structured engagement among senior leaders and component offices
- Synthesizing complex, multi-office inputs into clear, decision-relevant information for executive leadership
- Supporting leadership decision-making by developing actionable frameworks, options, summaries, and recommendations
- Supporting enterprise alignment across offices by helping identify inconsistencies, implementation gaps, and areas requiring clarification
- Developing shared reference materials, communication tools, and implementation guidance to support consistent execution
- Designing and supporting centralized approaches for tracking milestones, deliverables, deadlines, interdependencies, and accountability
- Assessing existing strategic and operational plans, procedures, workflows, and practices
- Documenting and defining business processes to support improved execution and coordination
- Developing baseline measurements to assess the effectiveness of strategic and operational plans
- Assisting with prioritization of critical output, productivity, and outcome measures
- Developing implementation roadmaps, performance measures, and progress-tracking tools
- Applying organizational development, behavioral science, human factors, or neuroscience-informed approaches to leadership support, change management, and organizational execution
- Supporting high-visibility, multi-stakeholder initiatives in a federal regulatory or comparable mission-driven environment
- Maintaining professional, timely, and effective communication with government leadership, project leads, and stakeholders
Skills
- Master's degree in organizational development, public administration, industrial-organizational psychology, business administration, human-systems integration, or a closely related field
- At least 10 years of demonstrated experience in management consulting, organizational development, or strategic implementation support
- At least 5 years of senior-level experience supporting complex organizational, executive, or enterprise-level initiatives
- Demonstrated experience with enterprise-level program coordination across multiple organizational units
- Demonstrated experience supporting execution planning and milestone management for high-visibility, multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Demonstrated experience facilitating executive-level decision-making and synthesizing complex information for senior leaders
- Verifiable experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives and supporting leadership execution of strategic priorities
- Demonstrated, verifiable application of neuroscience or behavioral science principles to organizational strategy, change management, leadership support, or complex institutional settings
- Direct experience supporting FDA, CDER, or a comparable federal regulatory agency
- Familiarity with compliance, enforcement, regulatory oversight, or similar federal mission functions
- At least one recognized professional certification relevant to the scope of work, such as: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Management Consultant (CMC), NeuroLeadership Institute certification or equivalent applied neuroscience credential, Organizational Development Certified Professional (ODCP), Registered Organization Development Consultant (RODC), Other equivalent credential demonstrating professional standing in strategic implementation, organizational development, leadership coaching, or applied neuroscience
- Degree coursework, research, publications, presentations, or formal training in cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, organizational neuroscience, human factors, applied neuroscience, or behavioral science
- Published research, white papers, presentations, or case studies demonstrating neuroscience-informed or behavioral-science-informed interventions in organizational settings
- Experience supporting FDA, CDER, HHS, or other federal health, regulatory, compliance, inspection, enforcement, or oversight organizations
- Experience working with senior executives in a federal agency environment
- Experience developing decision-support frameworks, implementation roadmaps, performance measures, milestone trackers, briefing materials, and executive-level communications
- Experience supporting organizational change, enterprise alignment, leadership coaching, strategic planning, process improvement, or governance design
- Strong understanding of how to support sensitive, high-priority initiatives requiring coordination, discretion, accountability, and rapid execution
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