Organizational Development Consultant

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT

**ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RESOURCES**

**Competition No.** 24.11.332

**CATEGORY**

**SALARY**

**CLOSING DATE**
- Full-Time Continuing (35 hours per week)
OOS Pay Band 5: $80,009 to $108,013 per annum
November 25, 2024**About Us**:

- MacEwan University is where caring faculty help people connect their passions to their future paths. Located in the heart of Edmonton’s diverse and dynamic downtown community, and on the traditional lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and homelands of the Métis people, MacEwan is known for exceptional undergraduate learning. With its dedication to teaching excellence, informed by scholarly research, innovation, and creative activity, MacEwan provides an exceptional collaborative and supportive learning environment with a commitment to human rights, environmental sustainability, and opportunities for community engagement. We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all peoples, cultures, and identities.

Our comprehensive undergraduate university offers 55 programs to more than 19,000 full
- and part-time students in business, communications, community and human services, design, fine and performing arts, health, humanities, natural science, nursing, public safety, and social science. Through a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, and strategic relationships in the community, we partner with others to produce graduates of stature. Along with a robust grounding in their chosen disciplines, MacEwan students are given durable life skills that prepare them to take on the world.**Opportunity**:
MacEwan University is seeking an Organizational Development Consultant for a full-time continuing opportunity with our Organizational Design & Development (OD&D) team in Human Resources. Reporting to the Director, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing organizational development solutions for various leadership, cultural, and organizational effectiveness programs and services. Working collaboratively, the OD Consultant provides consulting and coaching to MacEwan clients and stakeholders and works to foster an organizational culture that promotes teaching greatness, flexibility, versatility, growth, and equity, diversity and inclusion.

Key responsibilities include:

- In alignment with MacEwan's Strategic Vision and Human Resources’ People Plan, designing and delivering organizational development programs, resources, and services for a variety of topics (e.g. learning and development, change management, succession, employee engagement, employee recognition, etc.);
- Consulting with leaders and teams to support them in addressing change and enhancing team dynamics towards engagement;
- Conducting in-depth interviews, observational analysis, focus groups, and secondary research, collecting, analyzing and synthesizing data to inform recommendations for leaders;
- Supporting and managing multiple concurrent projects, including leading teams and potentially managing personnel and/or project teams;
- Providing advice and insight into various OD topics to clients directly and/or as part of projects or internal HR teams;
- Conducting organizational learning needs assessments and analysis and developing strategies and associated learning programs;
- Designing and facilitating employee experiences that strengthen organizational culture;
- Providing input into MacEwan’s Leadership Development program; supporting the mapping of learning pathways, course requirements/options, and program components into Program Profiles to enable learners to understand the goals, scope, and requirements of MacEwan’s various leadership development streams and paths;
- Developing customized learning and change plans for client groups and leaders (or leadership teams); presenting proposals that leverage both internal and external courses and/or coaching; and
- Delivering various training courses and programs on behalf of Human Resources (e.g. Workforce Engagement, Change Management for Leaders, Mental Health & Wellness Essentials, etc.).

**SKILLS**:
You will have:

- Consulting, coaching, and group facilitation skills, including diagnostic and dialogic OD practices;
- The ability to use strategic thinking and innovation to advise on inclusive strategies for organizational change, transformation, and alignment;
- The ability to lead changes and effectively assess risk, readiness, and resistance while creating an inclusive, non-threatening environment to support productive debate, robust expression of ideas, group dialogue, and decision making;
- The ability to develop effective partnerships and influencing skills;
- The ability to work well under pressure with mínimal supervision, while navigating ambiguous and complex situations, as well as adapting to an ever-changing environment;
- The ability to foster and maintain relationships with various stakeholders;
- Strong