Smud Careers – Senior Organizational Effectiveness

Job Description:

To support the achievement of SMUD goals by providing advice and counsel on change related issues, including the design and implementation of organization development interventions, business process improvement efforts, and reengineering to support management decision making and to enhance SMUD’s ability to achieve its stated goals and objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Process improvement: Identify, develop, and execute process improvement opportunities utilizing continuous improvement principles. Facilitate cross functional process improvement project teams ensuring deadlines and objective are met and return on investment is realized.
• Employee engagement and culture: Acts as a strategic partner and trusted coach to help leaders create a healthy, engaging, and inclusive culture. Assists leaders in embedding desired practices that support strong communication, collaboration, accountability and trust. Consults with leaders and teams on engagement measurement and strategies.
• Monitors, guides, reviews, and conducts work activities associated with department internal/external projects in accordance with established task objectives and schedule as outlined in the project plan/contract.
• Change management: Partners to support current and future organizational needs. Creates clear and strategic process to prepare for, manage and reinforce change. Provides tactical support to ensure employee stakeholder input and effective change communications. Teaches methods to manage resistance to change and articulates the benefits of organization change. Champions agile, collaborative, and consultative approach throughout change efforts. Facilitates internal collaboration across all subject matter processes.
• Champions HRDI and SMUD-wide initiatives and ensures a strong partnership and mutually beneficial acceptance of and accountability for both workforce and business unit needs.
• Leadership and team development: Provides team effectiveness facilitation and consulting support to leadership. Coaches leaders in development of their problem solving, team building, conflict resolution and related leadership skills. Provides input to and alignment with enterprise leadership development strategies. Facilitates succession planning talent reviews. Provides advice and coaching to leaders on performance management and involvement of Employee Relations.
• Serves as a technical and subject matter expert responsible for planning, developing, and implementing short- and long-term strategies to drive business performance and ensure SMUD is a great place to work for all employees.
  Plan, organize, and coordinate assigned projects. Establish and maintain collaborative, cooperative approach between other work groups and the project.
• Identifies appropriate organization development opportunities; process change initiatives; develops tactics and teams needed to bring projects to fruition while ensuring best practice is shared and alignment is driven where appropriate. Organization design and development: Provides consulting support to reshape organizational structure and roles to achieve optimal performance. Assists the business through intervention design and implementation, including training.
• Strategic workforce development: Conducts strategic workforce planning and performs gap analysis to assess talent alignment with current and future business needs.

Job Requirements:

• Skills To: Provide leadership and build mutually beneficial relationships at all levels of an organization; think strategically to develop short/long term integrated strategies; analyze and interpret policies and procedures; plan, analyze and evaluate strategies for their impact on people and operations; make formal and informal presentations clearly and concisely to individual or groups; reconcile significant and/or controversial differences to bring interested parties to consensus; effectively communicate verbally and in writing; analyze complex issues and develop/implement resolution alternatives; solve problems at the root cause creatively and quickly; work collaboratively and effectively with senior-level staff; exercise good judgment; work well under pressure of deadlines; influence decision makers to support the achievements of the enterprise.

Qualification & Experience:

• Knowledge Of: Principles and practices of Organization Effectiveness and Development, including individual and organizational change management. Principles and practices of relationship building, influence and communication. Typical business operation, including the application and administration of policies, rules, regulations and operating procedures, as well as business planning. Application of process improvement, process modeling, project management and strategic planning best practices.
• Experience: Five (5+) or more years of progressively responsible experience influencing Senior Leaders in the areas of organization development, workforce, and operational planning and/or process design and implementation and/or continuous improvement. Working knowledge of leading an organization through large scale change.
• Education: BA/BS degree from an accredited college or university majoring in Business Administration, Human Resources Management, Organization Effectiveness or other related discipline or related field or equivalent experience. 9 years of related experience needed without bachelors degree to qualified.

Job Details:

Company: SMUD

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Sacramento, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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