Organizational Development Manager

Job Overview

Orange County Clerk of Courts (OCCC) takes great pride in crafting an environment of value and collaboration.  The Organizational Development (OD) Manager will design a framework that aligns Talent with business initiatives.  The individual contributor is responsible for design, development, and implementation of OD programmatic content that integrates strategy, structure, and change.  This includes; 1) guiding the use, implementation and measurement of organization wide cascading goals resulting from strategic planning, 2) systems and capabilities that support structural solutions with enhancement to organization wide team development, and 3) whole system interventions and transformation designs that are supported with change and transition management. Beyond consultative responsibilities, this position is a contributing member of the OD/TM leadership team advancing the alignment of OD initiatives with the Strategic Direction of OCCC.

Essential Duties

Employees contributing in this role may perform some or all these duties.  The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.  This OCCC position demands the compliance with all performance guidelines, regulations, work procedures and instructions, and policies including but not limited to professionalism and appropriate self-presentation, and respectful communication with all stakeholders.

Function: Strategy

• Facilitate the annual organization strategic planning process
• Ensure a shared vision is maintained across functions
• Measure the success of critical success factors
• Define the organization wide drivers required to advance strategic goals
• Articulate and continuously make relevant strategic positioning statements
• Translate organization goals framing cascading functional goals with Division Leadership
• Facilitate the quarterly review of overall strategic plan and provide recommendations to improve

Function: Structure

• Design organizational structure concepts using relevant OD theories that evolve with strategy
• Identify division level leadership and team development enhancements and solutions
• Align organizational competencies with strategic intent
• Integration planning using systems analysis outcome
• Build well-understood relationship between Key Performance Indicators and proactive decision making related to organizational structure

Function: Change

• Create and implement transformation initiatives that advance vision attainment
• Design change management interventions in response to dynamic shifts in current state positioning
• Develop vertical and horizontal transition communication planning
• Collaboratively partner with stakeholders as a Subject Matter Expert on change and transition management
• Action item outcome from organization effectiveness process improvement initiatives that are intentional, sustainable, and yield best practices

Function: Other Duties

• Lead special projects as assigned

• Review data to identify any patterns, trends and opportunities for improvement

• Maintain a current view of OD trends and new applications

Knowledge and Experience

Knowledge

• Best practices and emerging trends and competencies in OD
• Strategic planning practices and application
• OD and change management systems and tools
• Project management and its relationship to organizational strategy
• Mission and vision clarity and articulation methods

Experience

• Effectively guiding others to the pursuit of self-resolution
• Application of a broad-based view of challenges and their impact
• Facilitating, planning, and creatively chartering meeting intent
• Gap identification and solution analysis
• Benchmarking, researching and analyzing information from a variety of sources
• Empowering stakeholders toward program rollout
• Working successfully in a matrixed management level role with no direct reports
• Translating and scaling concepts into actionable processes relevant to the organization’s current and future state
• Use of needs evaluation and effective decision-making models
• Maintaining confidentiality and appropriate handling of sensitive matters
• Utilization of OD metrics for reporting and extrapolate the same for OD forecasting
• Expressing complex ideas clearly and concisely
• Managing and influencing change

• Working in a fast-paced and multi-project environment while meeting commitments and deadlines
• Operating a personal computer in Windows environment and utilizing word processing (MS Word), spreadsheet (MS Excel), and presentation (Power Point) applications.

Minimum Qualifications

Required:

A Bachelor’s degree in OD, Organizational Effectiveness or related field and a minimum 5-7 years of progressively responsible OD experience including demonstrable results achieving key business initiatives and in-depth knowledge OD systems and tools.

Preferred:

Master’s degree in OD or related field with an OD certification.