Supervisory Psychologist (Branch Manager, Organizational Effectiveness)

Department of Transportation; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Transportation in Washington, DC seeks a Branch Manager for the Organizational Effectiveness Branch (AHD-130) to lead consulting services, diagnostics, and evidence-based interventions that strengthen leadership, team effectiveness, culture, and workforce performance.

Qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and at least one year of specialized experience at the FV-I (FG/GS-13) level, with demonstrated experience in organizational development, cross-disciplinary

Qualifications

• Specialized experience includes implementing organizational development and change management within a technical work environment.
• Experience facilitating multi-disciplinary teams to analyze business needs and identify performance and cultural gaps to maximize collective effort and minimize risk of implementation failure.
• Experience applying psychological principles to evaluate organizational behavior and performance for planned change within an organization.

Skills

Organizational development

Change management

Applied psychology concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Psychology

Job description

Serves as the Branch Manager for the Organizational Effectiveness Branch (AHD-130), leading to improve organizational performance by providing consulting services, organizational diagnostics, and evidence-based interventions that strengthen leadership, team effectiveness, organizational culture, and workforce performance.

Basic Qualifications:

Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in Psychology.

In addition to the basic qualifications, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-I (FG/GS-13) level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position being filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower level in normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Specialized experience includes:

• Experience leading efforts to implement organizational development and change management solutions within a technical work environment;
• Experience facilitating multi-disciplinary teams to analyze business needs and to identify performance and cultural gaps to maximize the collective efforts of all people involved in a change, and to minimize the risk of implementation failure; and
• Experience applying psychological principles, theories, methods, or data to evaluate practical situations, organizational behavior and performance challenges for developing a planned approach to change within an organization.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of the vacancy announcement. Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history.