Senior Workforce / Organizational Design SME

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking a Senior Workforce / Organizational Design SME to lead the development of an enterprise IT workforce modernization strategy for a major federal client. You will apply a zero-based design approach to position management, job architecture, and career pathing.

In this role, you will partner with HR, security and program leadership to map roles, create taxonomies, and design AI-enabled workflows while ensuring compliance and protection of data.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree.
• 10+ years of federal workforce planning, HR strategy, or organizational design experience.
• Demonstrated experience with OPM position classification standards and position description development.
• Experience building job family taxonomies and competency frameworks at enterprise scale.
• Experience applying zero-based or process-elimination design approaches to organizational or position-management redesign.
• Experience designing or evaluating AI-enabled HR/workforce management tools or workflows, including human-review and data-protection considerations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including working directly with HR/classification officials.
• Local to Baltimore, MD metro area and willing to go on client site at least 2 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Deliver an Enterprise IT Workforce Modernization Strategy, including current-state assessment, target operating model, and implementation roadmap.
• Apply zero-based design to eliminate or simplify position-management processes before technology changes.
• Build workforce personas and career journey maps to define career paths across technical, product, program, and leadership tracks.
• Establish a common taxonomy for IT job families, titles, series, levels, and competencies; create a library of OPM-mapped descriptions.
• Develop a crosswalk identifying comparable work and gaps; provide dispositions.
• Complete a workforce capability and skills-gap assessment.
• Design and deliver an AI-enabled future-state position-management workflow with human review and data protections.
• Build a succession-planning registry covering mission-critical IT roles.
• Validate framework elements in co-design workshops with stakeholders, preserving statutory authority.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Overview

Steampunk is seeking a Senior Workforce / Organizational Design SME to lead development of an enterprise IT workforce modernization strategy for a large federal client, applying a zero-based design approach to position management, job architecture, and career pathing.

Responsibilities

• Deliver an Enterprise IT Workforce Modernization Strategy, covering current-state assessment, target operating model, and a prioritized implementation roadmap
• Apply a zero-based design approach: question existing position-management processes and identify work to eliminate, simplify, standardize, consolidate, automate, or reassign before proposing any technology change
• Build workforce personas and career journey maps to identify where staff stall or cannot advance, shaping visible technical, product, program, and leadership career paths
• Establish a common taxonomy for IT job families, titles, occupational series, career levels, and competencies, and build a governed library of standardized, OPM-mapped position descriptions
• Develop a crosswalk identifying comparable work, inconsistencies, and duplication across titles/series/grades, with recommended dispositions
• Complete a workforce capability and skills-gap assessment
• Design and deliver an AI-enabled future-state position management workflow with appropriate human review, controls, and data protections, usability-tested with HR practitioners and hiring managers
• Build and maintain a succession-planning registry covering 100% of identified mission-critical IT roles
• Validate all framework elements in co-design workshops with stakeholders, preserving their statutory authority

Qualifications

Required:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of federal workforce planning, HR strategy, or organizational design experience
• Demonstrated experience with OPM position classification standards and position description development
• Experience building job family taxonomies and competency frameworks at enterprise scale
• Experience applying zero-based or process-elimination design approaches to organizational or position-management redesign
• Experience designing or evaluating AI-enabled HR/workforce management tools or workflows, including human-review and data-protection considerations
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including working directly with HR/classification officials
• Local to Baltimore, MD metro area and willing to go on client site at least 2 days a week

Preferred:

• Experience with succession planning and mission-critical role risk assessment
• Experience covering IT, cybersecurity, data, or digital-services position types specifically