Bilingual Senior Organizational Development Consultant

Location: Ottawa, ON (Hybrid)

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.