Bilingual Senior Organizational Development Consultant
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Location: Ottawa, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 2 years
Security Clearance: Reliability Status
Language: Bilingual (English and French)
Responsibilities
OXARO is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace where every individual feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We believe that diversity drives innovation and strengthens our ability to serve our clients and communities. We are dedicated to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process and welcome applications from members of the four designated groups under the Employment Equity Act: women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process.
We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. While we appreciate every application, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Duration: 2 years
Security Clearance: Reliability Status
Language: Bilingual (English and French)
Responsibilities
- Lead a comprehensive organizational health and culture assessment covering approximately 900 employees, including approximately 36 executives, and ensure the quality and integrity of all work performed.
- Confirm project objectives, scope, methodology, governance arrangements, roles, schedule, and engagement approach during project initiation and planning.
- Review and analyze quantitative and qualitative data sources, including employee survey results, HR metrics, organizational reports, and exit interview findings.
- Design, administer, monitor, and analyze a confidential bilingual organizational health and culture survey.
- Conduct confidential interviews with executives to gather perspectives on leadership effectiveness, strategic priorities, workplace culture, and organizational performance.
- Facilitate bilingual focus groups and consultation sessions with managers and employees across sectors, regions, occupational groups, and organizational levels.
- Integrate and analyze evidence to assess organizational health, culture, engagement, leadership, psychological safety, inclusion, workload, and organizational effectiveness.
- Review relevant benchmarks, comparator organizations, and leading practices to contextualize findings and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Facilitate validation workshops with executives, managers, and employees to test preliminary findings and refine recommendations.
- Develop evidence-based findings, root-cause analysis, recommendations, and a prioritized short-, medium-, and long-term implementation roadmap.
- Present key findings, recommendations, and implementation priorities to executive-level audiences to support leadership decision-making.
- Provide bi-weekly progress updates and monthly written status reports throughout the engagement.
- 10+ years of experience conducting organizational assessments, organizational development reviews, workplace culture assessments, or comparable organizational diagnostic engagements.
- Experience conducting organizational or culture assessments within organizations of more than 500 employees.
- Experience working with federal public sector organizations or comparable large and complex public-sector institutions.
- Experience assessing psychological health and safety, workplace wellness, organizational culture, employee engagement, leadership, or related workplace factors.
- Demonstrated experience conducting confidential interviews, focus groups, surveys, and stakeholder consultations.
- Experience conducting structured consultations with senior executives, management committees, or executive teams.
- Experience adapting organizational assessments to judicial, quasi-judicial, regulatory, or independent decision-making contexts.
- Experience delivering assessments across federal organizations spanning multiple regions, both official languages, and multiple occupational groups.
- Experience assessing workplace climate, tensions, and systemic factors, distinguishing facts from perceptions, and linking recommendations to root causes.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing quantitative and qualitative organizational data and translating findings into evidence-based recommendations.
- Experience presenting findings and recommendations to executive-level audiences.
- Ability to provide services in both English and French.
- University degree (doctorate, graduate, or undergraduate) or a college or CEGEP diploma or certificate.
OXARO is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace where every individual feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We believe that diversity drives innovation and strengthens our ability to serve our clients and communities. We are dedicated to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process and welcome applications from members of the four designated groups under the Employment Equity Act: women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process.
We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. While we appreciate every application, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Responsibilities
Lead a bilingual organizational health and culture assessment for approximately 900 employees, using surveys, interviews, focus groups, consultations, and existing organizational data. Analyze findings, validate them with stakeholders, develop prioritized recommendations and an implementation roadmap, present results to executives, and provide regular progress reports.
Requirements
Requires 10+ years of experience in organizational assessments or comparable diagnostic engagements, including work with organizations of more than 500 employees and large or complex public-sector institutions. Candidates must have experience with confidential consultations, organizational data analysis, executive-level presentations, and workplace health or culture factors, be able to work in English and French, and hold a university degree or college/CEGEP diploma or certificate.
Skills
- Organizational Development
- Organizational Assessment
- Organizational Health Assessment
- Culture Assessment
- Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis
- Survey Design and Analysis
- Confidential Interviews
- Focus Group Facilitation
- Executive Consultation
- Psychological Health and Safety
- Employee Engagement
- Root-Cause Analysis
- Evidence-Based Recommendations
- Implementation Roadmapping
- Executive Presentations
- English-French Bilingual Communication
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Categories
- Consulting
- Human Resources
- Management & Leadership
- Government & Public Sector
Keywords
- Organizational Development
- Organizational Health
- Organizational Culture
- Organizational Assessment
- Employee Engagement
- Psychological Health and Safety
- Workplace Wellness
- Leadership Effectiveness
- Workplace Climate
- Inclusion
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Quantitative Data Analysis
- Qualitative Data Analysis
- Employee Surveys
- HR Metrics
- Confidential Interviews
- Focus Groups
- Stakeholder Consultation
- Executive Consultation
- Root-Cause Analysis
- Evidence-Based Recommendations
- Implementation Roadmap
- Benchmarking
- Validation Workshops
- Federal Public Sector
- Bilingual Services
- English
- French