Organizational Development Director

About the role

The Director of Organizational Development is a senior leader within Human Resources, reporting to the Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness/Chief Learning Officer. The Director leads UCSF's Organizational Development consulting practice and manages a team of experienced Organizational Development Consultants serving executive and senior leaders across UCSF Health and UCSF Campus.

As a member of the Organizational Effectiveness leadership team, the Director collaborates with peer leaders responsible for Leadership Development, Talent Systems, and Agentic Leadership, along with HR Business Partners and other Human Resources Centers of Excellence, to deliver integrated talent solutions that advance UCSF's strategic priorities. The Director serves as the enterprise organizational development consultant for the institution's most complex organizational opportunities and challenges.

Through executive consulting, organizational diagnosis, organization design, team effectiveness, and change leadership, the role helps leaders improve organizational performance while translating recurring organizational challenges into scalable enterprise capabilities. This role must be based in San Francisco and is fully on-site with your peers and team.

Responsibilities

• Lead UCSF's Organizational Development consulting practice and manage a team of experienced Organizational Development Consultants.
• Collaborate with peer leaders in Leadership Development, Talent Systems, and Agentic Leadership, as well as HR Business Partners and other HR Centers of Excellence, to deliver integrated talent solutions.
• Serve as the enterprise organizational development consultant for complex organizational opportunities and challenges.
• Provide executive consulting, organizational diagnosis, organization design, team effectiveness, and change leadership to improve organizational performance.
• Translate recurring organizational challenges into scalable enterprise capabilities.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of organizational development, organization design, team effectiveness, organizational systems, and change leadership.
• Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated success consulting with executive leaders on complex organizational challenges.
• Ability to diagnose systemic issues and design customized, scalable organizational solutions.
• Exceptional executive presence, facilitation, consulting, and influencing skills.
• Strong systems thinking and analytical capability.
• Experience leading enterprise transformation initiatives in highly matrixed organizations.
• Proven success leading and developing experienced organizational development professionals.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Ten (10) or more years of progressively responsible experience in organizational development, organization design, executive consulting, and enterprise transformation within large, complex organizations.
• Experience leading organizational development consulting teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Organizational Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline, and/or equivalent experience.
• Master's degree or higher in a related field (preferred).
• Experience in an academic health system, higher education, or similarly complex organization (preferred).
• Experience supporting enterprise growth, integration, or large-scale transformation (preferred).

Skills

• Organization Development Certified Professional (ODCP) (preferred).
• Prosci or other Change Management Certification (preferred).
• SHRM-SCP or SPHR (preferred).
• ICF Executive Coaching Certification (preferred).
• Related certifications in organization design, facilitation, or systems thinking (preferred).