Virginia Tech’s Organizational Excellence (OE) team serves as the trusted internal partner to university leaders as they seek to bring about meaningful transformative change, achieve overall excellence in their respective areas and across the university, and make significant progress toward strategic goals.
We are actively recruiting dynamic organizational transformation professionals to help advance university priorities, support leaders in initiatives that positively transform the culture of our work and university and serve as a collaborative and engaged organizational excellence team members. We have several open positions, at multiple levels (transformation leader, facilitator, associate) and welcome applications from transformation professionals, including early-, mid-, and senior-career levels. This work is done as part of an in-person team based on our Blacksburg, Virginia campus.
As Virginia Tech continues to advance its strategic plan and excel as a worldwide destination for talent, learning, research, discovery, and community engagement it is committed to building capacity to adapt as a university in response to a changing landscape of higher education. In support of bold strategic goals, the university also continues to look inward and adopt innovative approaches to maximizing value for its many stakeholders.
Members of the Organizational Excellence team bring key expertise to this work, partnering collaboratively with our leaders in their work to:
-provide expert analysis, best practice research, and innovation ideas,
-advance transformational initiatives,
-advise and coach senior leaders, and
-facilitate complex projects and group initiatives
bringing significant, easily accessible expertise in the areas of
-Organizational Development,
-Strategic Leadership, and
-Operational Efficiency.
We are seeking passionate transformation professionals with experience in organizational transformation, change management, organizational development, operational efficiency, and/or innovative strategies. As a team, we work with leaders across the university to bring compelling, inspiring visions for the future to life, engage a wide range of stakeholders in innovative and collaborative problem-solving efforts. Our work seeks to leverage a people-centric model for empowering faculty, staff, and students to navigate change and work together toward collective goals.
Transformation Leader – Transformation Leaders work directly with university leaders to understand needs and opportunities and lead engagements that make transformative progress toward desired outcomes. With support from other members of the OE team, subject matter experts, and support specialists, they assess needs based on our Organizational Excellence model, design approaches that leverage positive change management strategies, and facilitate projects for optimal results.
Transformation Leaders should have prior experience in the essential functions under the facilitator and associate roles. The critical success factors for this position include strong client focus, leadership intelligence, business acumen, critical thinking and problem solving, communication and influence, relationship and quality orientation, collaborative approach, adaptability and flexibility in thinking and management of work and relationships, managing multiple priorities simultaneously, taking initiative, and independent thought leadership.
Transformation Facilitator – Transformation Facilitators work with other members of the OE team and in support of Transformation Leaders to advance both the work of the OE team and specific projects across the university. Transformation Facilitators bring a unique set of prior experiences and skills that support an area or areas of the OE Model, and as such will work collaboratively as needed across an array of projects. Transformation Facilitators will engage with client groups, facilitate group or individual work sessions, and coordinate workstreams for projects in the OE team.
Essential Functions:
• Primary responsibility for assigned internal transformation projects, including project scoping, high level project planning, project management, issue identification, collaborative solutions design, implementation planning, creation of project deliverables.
• Development of materials such as project plans, schedules, agendas, client materials, reports, data resources and analyses, collateral, information, and resulting presentations.
• Managing project meetings, conducting assessments, requesting and reviewing relevant data and information, developing and presenting findings and recommendations to leaders and stakeholders.
• Advising on change management perspectives in transformation projects.
• Participating in Organizational Excellence team operations, supporting functionality and practice of the team.
Transformation Associate – Transformation Associates work with other members of the OE team in support of Transformation Leaders and Transformation Facilitators, supporting both the work of the OE team and specific projects across the university. Transformation Associates primarily provide “behind the scenes” support for client engagement work, including benchmarking and best practice research, design and development of model engagement activities, and supporting communications.
Essential Functions:
• Primary responsibility for drafting project materials as needed for clients and projects. This would include templates, schedules, reports and other materials.
• Drafting and updating project management tools; timelines, Gantt charts, agendas, and other materials.
• Participating in the collection, analysis, and presentation of data.
• Participating in project teams.
• Assisting with the creation of client-ready deliverables.
