Organization Development Specialist

As a member of the CGIAR, WorldFish implements its work through the recently created CGIAR Research Programs. WorldFish is committed to our people, their growth and their development in order to maintain high quality, responsive and adaptive program management. As such, we seek a creative, dynamic and innovative individual to work alongside the Bangladesh Country Director and Country Program leader to ensure that growth is well managed and effectively integrated across 300+ staff within the WorldFish Bangladesh office.

 

Key responsibilities:

 

• Ensure change and growth are effectively planned and managed across the entire portfolio of WorldFish projects in an integrated fashion through effective workforce planning and development of a succession planning strategy
• Provide support and embedding of the WorldFish Leadership development initiatives in a timely and efficient manner
• Provide leadership and advice in areas of change management, organization effectiveness and performance issues and works in partnership with the Bangladesh senior leaders to orchestrate cultural development and organization change initiatives that enable achievement of strategic goals

• Provide oversight of and be a primary supporter to the current suite of organization development initiatives underway in Bangladesh as well as for the design, development and implementation of additional relevant Organizational Development initiatives as required
• Closely work with Bangladesh Program Priority Leader (PPL) of Capacity Building Development

 

Skill Requirements:

• MA in Organizational Development, Organizational Psychology or Strategic Human Resource Management or related field
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a high level Organizational Development position with a major international or national development/science organization
• Other qualifications and accreditations in coaching, psychometrics and organization development will be highly regarded
• A proven track record in providing innovative approaches to leadership and people development
• Experience leading growth and / or change management at scale
• Excellent written and spoken English language skills
• Excellent qualitative human analytical skills and the ability to present information clearly and concisely in both spoken and written form
• Proficient in MS Office applications (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, etc)
• Experience in one-on-one coaching as well as team coaching would be valued highly

 

 

WorldFish is committed to developing an inclusive work environment where diversity of thought, style, culture and skill is valued in support of individual performance and potential, as well as our business goals and mission. WorldFish offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. Women are encouraged to apply. Interested applicants are invited to submit your application through Bdjobs online latest by 30 June 2014.

 

This position will be based at Dhaka, WorldFish Bangladesh office. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.