Senior Organizational Development Consultant / Executive Leadership Coach

Position Summary

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, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of Compliance. This position will provide strategic implementation, organizational development, executive coordination, and leadership decision-support services for cross-office compliance priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic implementation and leadership coordination support for cross-office compliance initiatives.
• Facilitate structured engagement among senior leaders and component offices.
• Synthesize complex, multi-office inputs into clear, decision-relevant information for executive leadership.
• Support leadership decision-making by developing actionable frameworks, options, summaries, and recommendations.
• Support enterprise alignment across offices by helping identify inconsistencies, implementation gaps, and areas requiring clarification.
• Develop shared reference materials, communication tools, and implementation guidance to support consistent execution.
• Design and support centralized approaches for tracking milestones, deliverables, deadlines, interdependencies, and accountability.
• Audit existing strategic and operational plans, procedures, workflows, and practices.
• Document and define business processes to support improved execution and coordination.
• Develop baseline measurements to assess the effectiveness of strategic and operational plans.
• Assist with prioritization of critical output, productivity, and outcome measures.
• Develop implementation roadmaps, performance measures, and progress-tracking tools.
• Apply organizational development, behavioral science, human factors, or neuroscience-informed approaches to leadership support, change management, and organizational execution.
• Support high-visibility, multi-stakeholder initiatives in a federal regulatory or comparable mission-driven environment.
• Maintain professional, timely, and effective communication with government leadership, project leads, and stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

About SoftDev Incorporated

SoftDev Incorporated is a woman-owned, HUBZone-certified small business with more than 26 years of experience supporting federal health, data, program management, and technology missions. SoftDev’s mission is to Improve Lives through Health IT, and we support federal customers through disciplined program execution, stakeholder coordination, data-driven decision-making, and mission-focused delivery.

How To Apply

Candidates should submit a resume that clearly demonstrates how their education, certifications, applied neuroscience or behavioral science expertise, federal regulatory experience, and senior organizational development experience align with the requirements of this role. Candidates are encouraged to include examples of relevant publications, case studies, presentations, certifications, implementation roadmaps, executive facilitation work, leadership coaching experience, or strategic implementation support.