Staffing & Skills Assessment Consultant

The Opportunity

Human Resources is seeking an OD Consultant to join an enterprise-wide project team to help execute regulatory-required staffing and skills assessments. The staffing assessments will consist of identifying labor demand and labor supply gaps, determining what portion of gaps require resourcing solutions, and developing a resourcing/hiring plan. The skills assessments will consist of facilitating teams through examination of skill gap data analyses and developing plans for addressing gaps. The staffing assessment framework is based on examining labor demand and labor supply against work drivers (categories of activities). The skill assessments will leverage manager assessments of skills on job profiles within an existing talent intelligence platform.

The consultant will work with Executive and Senior leaders to facilitate, guide, advise, and challenge the staffing and skills assessment decisions and plans. Consultants will be provided with a prescribed process and equipped with communication templates, as well as support from a data analyst and project coordinator for scheduling. These assessments and the processes we are using will evolve into BAU practices for workforce planning and skill-based talent management. The consultant will work with Execution and Senior leaders 1:1, in small groups, and via formal facilitated sessions, all conducted remotely using Microsoft Teams.

The OD Consultant will need to be adept at using a consultative, data-driven approach and helping leaders focus on the relevant questions at hand to respond to the regulators. The timeframes for completing thee work are constrained and so the consultant will need to encourage timely execution and effectively escalate delays to the project manager and leader for support. There will be tools for tracking and reporting progress that the consultant will use.

Success will be found through the effective and efficient leadership and in building close, constructive relationships with key partners across the entire organization.

The Responsibilities

• Developing and executing workforce skill gap assessments, preferably in a large financial institution.
• Advising on organization development and effectiveness solutions to address skill gaps.
• Documenting work as evidence of completion of process steps.
• Executing staffing, resource or workforce plans that look at plans for hiring, contracting or other 3rd party relationship.s

Areas of Expertise

• Resource/Staffing/Workforce Planning
• Organizational Effectiveness/Organizational Development
• Skill Gap Assessment
• Organization/Time Management
• Attention to Detail
• Process-Orientation
• Consultative Skills

The Qualifications

• Experience in strategic problem framing, issue identification, and development of practical business solutions
• Ability to take multiple and complex concepts and distill into simple, executable strategies that are relevant, pragmatic, and drive results • Ability to customize solutions to the context and needs of the organization(s)
• Ability to self-manage and work effectively with remote leaders and partners
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in project management, human resources, or organizational development
• Strong written and oral communications skills
• Team player who quickly builds trust and collaborative working relationships with business leaders and partners across many groups and geographies
• Excel and PowerPoint
• Superior organizational and process skills, as demonstrated by an ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects to achieve milestones and objectives
• Bachelor's Degree
• Exceptional project management, planning, and analytic skills • Strong integration, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills