Strategic Talent Partner, Organizational Effectiveness

UC San Francisco (UCSF); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

UCSF is seeking a Talent Partner within Organizational Effectiveness to serve as the primary OE engagement lead for multiple operating units in a complex, regulated healthcare environment. You will bridge senior leaders with OE specialists, framing needs, coordinating cross-functional engagements, and driving implementations from intake through review.

You will apply broad OE knowledge, strong PM skills, and stakeholder management to deliver practical, enterprise-wide solutions across UCSF

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 4+ years in organizational effectiveness, internal consulting, or related work.
• Broad OE knowledge with judgment for complex needs.
• Strong PM capability across multi-stakeholder initiatives.
• Demonstrated consulting and senior-leader relationship skills.
• Systems thinking, diagnostic, problem framing, and analytics.
• Ability to synthesize multiple disciplines into a coherent solution.
• Excellent organization, follow-through, and stakeholder management.
• Experience with frontline-intensive, clinical, academic, or complex environments.
• Track record in managing cross-functional engagements from framing to review.
• Preferred: Master's or higher; MP/Prosci/Agile certs; healthcare/academic medicine experience; knowledge of OE practice areas.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end coordination of Talent offers, processes, and tools across OE.
• Assemble cross-pillar OE expertise for engagements needing multiple capabilities.
• Maintain coherent engagement with clear roles, handoffs, and accountability.
• Anticipate barriers, escalate risks, and drive momentum in complex initiatives.
• Use disciplined PM practices while ensuring sound organizational diagnosis.
• Conduct discovery and framing to translate needs into interventions.
• Frame problems by structure, leadership, teams, and culture with SME input.
• Integrate recommendations into practical solutions for the business context.
• Translate recommendations into implementation actions and sequencing.
• Support implementation with stakeholder coordination and adoption activities.
• Maintain relationships with leaders, HR partners, and OE specialists.
• Ensure leaders understand changes, required actions, and sponsorship needs.
• Transition completed work into sustainable ownership.
• Measure outcomes with OE/Impact teams and capture lessons for portfolio learning.
• Recommend where to continue, scale, or conclude OE work.

Skills

Project & program management

Consulting & relationship management

Systems thinking & diagnostic ability

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Complex engagement leadership

Problem framing & solution integration

Organizational diagnosis & analysis

Frontline-heavy environment experience

Interpersonal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in organizational development, business, HR, PM, healthcare admin, or related field

Master's degree or higher in a related field

Job description

UCSF is seeking a Talent Partner within Organizational Effectiveness to serve as the primary OE engagement lead for multiple operating units in a complex, regulated healthcare environment. You will bridge senior leaders with OE specialists, framing needs, coordinating cross-functional engagements, and driving implementations from intake through review.

You will apply broad OE knowledge, strong PM skills, and stakeholder management to deliver practical, enterprise-wide solutions across UCSF