Bilingual Senior Organizational Development Consultant

OXARO Inc.; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

OXARO Inc. is seeking an experienced consultant to lead a comprehensive organizational health and culture assessment for a large public-sector-like organization.

The project covers approximately 900 employees, with about 36 executives, and will be conducted in English and French within a hybrid Ottawa setting. The role requires extensive experience in confidential data collection, stakeholder engagement at senior levels, and delivering actionable, evidence-based recommendations with a multi-year

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience conducting organizational assessments, organizational development reviews, workplace culture assessments, or comparable engagements.
• Experience with large federal/public-sector-like organizations and complex multi-region contexts.
• Ability to conduct confidential interviews, focus groups, surveys, and stakeholder consultations.
• Experience translating data into evidence-based recommendations and presenting to executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead a comprehensive health and culture assessment for ~900 employees and 36 executives, ensuring quality and integrity.
• Define objectives, scope, methodology, governance, roles, schedule, and engagement approach.
• Review data sources (surveys, HR metrics, reports, exit findings) to inform insights.
• Design, administer, monitor, and analyze a bilingual confidential survey.
• Conduct confidential interviews with executives to gather leadership perspectives.
• Facilitate bilingual focus groups with managers/employees across sectors and levels.
• Integrate evidence to assess health, culture, engagement, and psychological safety.
• Benchmark against leading practices to contextualize findings and opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate validation workshops with executives and teams to refine recommendations.
• Develop evidence-based findings, root-cause analysis, and a phased implementation roadmap.
• Present findings and priorities to executive audiences; provide progress updates and status reports.

Skills

Organizational assessments

Executive interviews

Bilingual communication

Education

Doctorate/Graduate/Undergraduate degree

Job description

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.

AI Disclosure

We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to screen, assess, or select applicants at any stage of our recruitment process. All applications are reviewed by our recruitment team.

OXARO is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace where every individual feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We believe that diversity drives innovation and strengthens our ability to serve our clients and communities. We are dedicated to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process and welcome applications from members of the four designated groups under the Employment Equity Act: women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

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.