Job Family:
Operational Effectiveness Consulting
Travel Required:
Clearance Required:
What You Will Do:
The Organizational Effectiveness Specialist will join Guidehouse to support a public diplomacy office at the Department of State. The client uses Organizational Effectiveness Specialists to provide tools, training, and community building that enable public diplomacy professionals to do their jobs more effectively.
As an Organizational Effectiveness Specialist supporting this effort, you will join a team passionate about serving clients around the globe. Day to day, you will deliver targeted needs assessments and rapidly develop and deploy organizational effectiveness support for public diplomacy sections, drawing from industry best practices and standards. You will play a role developing and providing support to enhance individual and team performance, facilitate team development, develop leadership skills, and improve organizational processes for staff across all embassies and consulates, as well as internally for the client’s business units, adapting to organizational changes and optimizing their operational models.
What You Will Need:
- An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance
- Bachelors Degree
- FIVE (5) years' experience in leadership development, process improvement, and content development and facilitation around improving individual, team or organizational performance using organizational psychology principles, including THREE (3) years’ experience in executing, implementing, and sustaining organizational change.
What Would Be Nice To Have:
- ICF Coaching certified
- Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
- Ability to provide assistance such as technical guidance and/or training to coworkers
- Ability to bridge cultural and language barriers while working with clients where English may be a second language
- Ability to learn and adopt concepts and strategies related to strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, audience analysis, best practices and techniques
- Ability to travel internationally to any location requested
- Prior consulting experience
- Ability to view problems from multiple angles and apply a variety of solutions to solving them
- Ability to professionally represent Guidehouse when participating and leading client-facing discussions and meetings
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent organizational, written, and oral communication skills
- Proficiency in the use of cloud-based and traditional word processing software, spreadsheets, presentations (e.g., G Suite, Microsoft, et al), databases and project management tools
- Background in organizational psychology
- Experience with Asana and Salesforce
What We Offer:
Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
Benefits include:
Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend
About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Skills Required
- Active and maintained Secret federal or DoD security clearance
- Bachelor's degree
- Five years of experience in leadership development, process improvement, and content development and facilitation focused on individual, team, or organizational performance using organizational psychology principles
- Three years of experience executing, implementing, and sustaining organizational change
- ICF Coaching certification
- Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
- Ability to provide technical guidance or training to coworkers
- Ability to bridge cultural and language barriers with clients where English may be a second language
- Ability to learn and apply strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, audience analysis, and best-practice concepts
- Ability to travel internationally as requested
- Prior consulting experience
- Ability to analyze problems from multiple perspectives and apply varied solutions
- Ability to represent the company professionally in client-facing discussions and meetings
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent organizational, written, and oral communication skills
- Proficiency with cloud-based and traditional word processing software, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, and project management tools
- Background in organizational psychology
- Experience with Asana and Salesforce
Guidehouse Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Guidehouse and has not been reviewed or approved by Guidehouse.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests the benefits package includes broad medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and disability coverage, which is often seen as a strong foundational offering. Access to HSA/FSA options further supports day-to-day healthcare and dependent-care needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Feedback suggests parental leave and adoption assistance are available, alongside an emergency back-up childcare program. These offerings indicate meaningful support for employees managing family responsibilities.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Feedback suggests flexible work options and counseling/EAP-style support are part of the broader rewards mix. Additional lifestyle-oriented perks like community events and referral programs are also described as available in some contexts.
Guidehouse Insights
What We Do
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has more than 12,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies.








