Organizational Strategist

Company Description We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

**Job Description**:
AECOM is seeking an Organizational Strategist for our growing Strategy+ practice in Toronto. We are open to this role being fully remote.Strategy+ is AECOM’s design-led management consulting studio that operates at the intersection of Business Transformation, Organizational Dynamics and Place Strategy. We recognize the impact of changes to the built environment and how businesses operate on the organization. We’re specifically looking for someone that has a rare blend of real-world experience and theory, a passion for challenging traditional wisdom, the right mix of boardroom polish and grassroots hustle and is comfortable blurring the lines between the rigor of strategy and the creative.You will join our multidisciplinary team of talented strategists, architects, data analysts, organizational psychologists, planners, and designers to support projects which encompass world class corporations, agencies, institutions, universities & colleges, and local and federal government.Once You Are Here You Will:Your role as an Organizational Strategist will vary from project to project, relationship to relationship, and may include:

- Help clients to shape and act on change strategies for complex organizational challenges to capitalize on value-creating opportunities
- Assess organizational capabilities, structures and processes and develop the future capabilities, competencies and critical roles that enable an organization’s 5-10 year strategy
- Design and activate organizational interventions to encourage collaboration across siloed organizations
- Generate new opportunities by thinking creatively about financial and operational impacts, risks, experiments, data and other drivers
- Translate behavioural research into insights that can be easily communicated to your collaborators and clients to inspire possible solutions
- Craft research plans comprised of interviews, workshops, analogous industries and organizations to understand an organization’s working dynamics and surface opportunity areas
- Shape and act on change strategies that may start small, and lead to long-term impact at scale
- Design tools, methodologies and frameworks that address strategic and organizational issues and foster new ways of thinking and working
- Shape AECOM’s perspective on organizational strategy - we like to push the edges in all aspects of our work.About You:A T-shaped individual that asks thought provoking questions, are comfortable wading into ambiguous problems and can take ownership, are a critical thinker, and has specialized experience in one or more of the following areas and possesses a broader comfort and ability to work within many of these areas:

- Organizational psychology, behavioural economics and change management
- Workforce planning, operations and capability development, human resources
- Management consulting and / or corporate strategy - Data analytics & modeling - User research, synthesis of qualitative data and generating insights

**Qualifications**:
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

- Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in a related field, including but not limited to industrial/organizational psychology, business administration, or behavioural science and 2 years of experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and education. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:It would be a bonus if you have:

- 2-3 years of organizational design, change management and strategic experience developing and implementing new ways of thinking and working
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