Remote Organizational Development Consultant

Thrivent; Minneapolis (MN); Remote; USD 109,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses (including annual or long-term

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Health savings account

401k / Pension

Paid time off - 20 days

Volunteer Time Off

Parental leave

EAP and well-being benefits

Job summary

Thrivent is seeking an Organization Development Consultant to partner with leaders and HR to diagnose needs and design practical solutions that boost organizational effectiveness and business performance. You’ll apply OD expertise across design, operating models, leadership effectiveness, change, workforce planning, and related interventions, often without direct authority.

This senior individual contributor role can be remote within the United States, requiring you to lead complex engagements,

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Organization Development principles, organizational assessment and diagnosis, organization design, team effectiveness, leadership effectiveness, change, workforce planning, and related interventions.
• Ability to understand connections among strategy, structure, work, process, technology, governance, culture, leadership, talent, and change.
• Hold the whole picture across multiple projects or workstreams and surface dependencies and risks.
• Move beyond stated requests, synthesize information, identify root causes, and recommend effective interventions.
• Strong contracting, inquiry, listening, facilitation, synthesis, and stakeholder management skills.
• Connect organizational choices to business strategy, performance, and outcomes.
• Design structures, operating models, governance, and workflows.
• Assess team and leadership conditions and design interventions to improve performance.
• Knowledge of change management, readiness, adoption, and workforce planning.
• Defines meaningful outcomes and evaluates impact with evidence-based adjustments.
• Manages concurrent work with clear priorities and portfolio visibility.
• Able to lead or coordinate in ambiguity with sound judgment.
• Synthesize complex information into clear narratives for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex organization effectiveness engagements from intake through sustainment with a systems perspective.
• Apply assessment and diagnostic practices to distinguish symptoms from root causes and identify appropriate interventions.
• Bring a whole-system view across initiatives, surface dependencies and surface risks for coordinated action.
• Translate business strategy into practical capabilities and ways of working to improve alignment and execution.
• Design and facilitate interventions to strengthen leadership alignment, team clarity, and collaboration.
• Guide leadership teams through complex discussions, problem solving, and alignment without relying on formal authority.
• Integrate change practices to strengthen stakeholder engagement and sustainment of results.
• Support workforce planning by linking business strategy to capability, skills, roles, and capacity.
• Partner with HR and enterprise teams to deliver executable solutions and build organizational capability.

Skills

Organization Development expertise

Systems thinking

Integrated initiative leadership

Diagnostic capability

Consulting and influence

Business acumen

Organization and work design

Leadership and team effectiveness

Change and workforce capability

Measurement and evaluation

Engagement and portfolio management

Judgment and adaptability

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Organization Development, Human Resources, Business, Organizational Psychology, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, behavioral science, or a related field

Master’s degree in Organization Development, Organizational Psychology, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Human Resources, Business, or a related field

Job description

Thrivent is seeking an Organization Development Consultant to partner with leaders and HR to diagnose needs and design practical solutions that boost organizational effectiveness and business performance. You’ll apply OD expertise across design, operating models, leadership effectiveness, change, workforce planning, and related interventions, often without direct authority.

This senior individual contributor role can be remote within the United States, requiring you to lead complex engagements,