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Job overview
The Organizational Effectiveness Specialist supports a Department of State public diplomacy office by providing tools, training, and community building. The role delivers needs assessments and organizational effectiveness support, drawing on industry best practices. It also supports individual and team performance, team development, leadership skills, and organizational processes across embassies, consulates, and client business units.
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Full job description
Job Family :
Operational Effectiveness Consulting
Travel Required :
Up to 10%
Clearance Required :
Active Secret
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 :
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An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance
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Bachelors Degree
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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 :
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ICF Coaching certified
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Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
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Ability to provide assistance such as technical guidance and/or training to coworkers
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Ability to bridge cultural and language barriers while working with clients where English may be a second language
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Ability to learn and adopt concepts and strategies related to strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, audience analysis, best practices and techniques
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Ability to travel internationally to any location requested
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Prior consulting experience
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Ability to view problems from multiple angles and apply a variety of solutions to solving them
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Ability to professionally represent Guidehouse when participating and leading client-facing discussions and meetings
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Excellent attention to detail
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Excellent organizational, written, and oral communication skills
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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
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Background in organizational psychology
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Experience with Asana and Salesforce
The annual salary range for this position is $98,000.00-$163,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
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:
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Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
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Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
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Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
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Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
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401(k) Retirement Plan
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Basic Life & Supplemental Life
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Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
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Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
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Student Loan PayDown
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Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
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Skills Development & Certifications
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Employee Referral Program
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Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
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Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
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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.
If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at [email protected] . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.
All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or [email protected] . Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.
If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact [email protected] . Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.
Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,498 open Management Consulting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$98–163K/yr
- Washington, D.C. median$104–202K/yr23 salary ranges
- US median$123–266K/yr2,335 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $131K, is 20% below the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($163K) — in the middle half of Management Consulting salary ranges in Washington, D.C..
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 24 open Management Consulting jobs in Washington, D.C. and 2,498 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington, D.C.
- PwC8 open
- EY4 open
- Guidehouse (this employer)4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Management Consulting postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (2,427 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,427 of the 2,498 open Management Consulting jobs (57%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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