Org Effectiveness Consultant

Discover Vanderbilt Health: With eight hospitals and over 180 clinics, we are the region’s largest comprehensive academic health system. Vanderbilt Health has a long tradition of providing world-class care to the people of the Mid-South, living out our mission of moving medicine forward through preeminent programs in patient care, education and research. Here you’ll find a spirit of collaboration and a supportive community where your expertise is valued, your knowledge expanded and your uniqueness celebrated. We are committed to fostering an environment where talented, compassionate people are united in bringing the most advanced care to our neighbors throughout the region.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Organizational Diagnosis: Conducts assigned organizational assessments and needs analyses to identify individual, team, and organizational performance gaps. Examines relevant leadership practices, workflows, structures, and team dynamics to inform recommendations.
• Strategy and Capability Alignment: Supports the translation of organizational and entity-level priorities into leadership, workforce, and organizational capability requirements. Contributes to recommendations that align organizational practices with strategic objectives.
• Leadership Assessment: Supports the selection, administration, and interpretation of leadership assessments, competency models, and other diagnostic tools to identify strengths, development needs, and capability gaps.
• Succession Planning and Talent Development: Assists with succession planning, talent calibration, high-potential development, and leadership pipeline initiatives. Coordinates assessment activities, prepares talent insights, and supports identification of developmental opportunities.
• Team Effectiveness: Supports the design and facilitation of team effectiveness activities, including structured discussions, assessments, and collaborative problem-solving sessions to strengthen alignment, accountability, and performance.
• Organizational Effectiveness Interventions: Contributes to the development and implementation of organizational effectiveness recommendations. Partners with the Change Management team and other stakeholders to coordinate intervention activities with established change and adoption plans.
• Measurement and Evaluation: Collects and analyzes organizational data, assessment results, stakeholder feedback, and performance indicators to evaluate initiatives, identify trends, and recommend improvements.
• Project Coordination and Stakeholder Partnership: Coordinates assigned consulting activities and project deliverables, maintains stakeholder communication, and supports cross-functional initiatives to achieve established objectives and timelines.
• Research and Continuous Improvement: Researches organizational effectiveness practices, emerging technologies, and relevant industry trends to identify opportunities for improving assessments, consulting approaches, and organizational solutions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

Organizational Diagnosis and Performance Consulting (Intermediate)
Applies established assessment and consulting methodologies to identify performance gaps, analyze contributing factors, and develop recommendations with appropriate guidance.

Stakeholder Consultation and Communication (Intermediate)
Builds productive relationships with leaders and stakeholders, gathers information, communicates findings, and contributes to collaborative problem-solving and decision-making.

Organizational Design and Systems Thinking (Intermediate)
Understands how organizational structures, processes, roles, and leadership practices influence performance. Identifies potential improvement opportunities and supports analysis of organizational effectiveness challenges.

Talent Assessment and Succession Planning (Intermediate)
Applies established competency models, assessment tools, and talent management processes to support leadership evaluation, talent calibration, development planning, and succession initiatives.

Team Effectiveness and Facilitation (Intermediate)
Supports and facilitates structured discussions, team assessments, and development activities using established methodologies to strengthen collaboration, accountability, and performance.

Organizational Analytics and Evaluation (Intermediate)
Collects, analyzes, and interprets qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate initiatives, identify patterns, and communicate findings using appropriate reporting and analytical tools.

Change Management Partnership (Intermediate)
Understands foundational change management principles and coordinates with designated Change Management partners to support the alignment of organizational effectiveness interventions with established implementation and adoption plans.

Project Coordination and Cross-Functional Collaboration (Intermediate)
Coordinates assigned projects and consulting activities, tracks deliverables and timelines, communicates with stakeholders, and contributes to effective execution of cross-functional initiatives.

Our professional administrative functions include critical supporting roles in information technology and informatics, finance, administration, legal and community affairs, human resources, communications and marketing, development, facilities, and many more.

At our growing health system, we support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt Health for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose.

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This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within Vanderbilt Health, supported by a comprehensive benefits package which may include health, disability, retirement and/or wellness offerings to enhance your well-being and professional growth.

Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.

About Us

PEOPLE ARE AT THE HEART OF ALL WE DO.

Great health care takes great people.

We’re looking for like-minded individuals driven to make a difference. We invite you to explore careers at Vanderbilt Health, where we value collaboration, embrace continuous learning and foster an environment where everyone can thrive.

We’re the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee, with a growing team and an expanding footprint across towns and communities throughout the region.

We employ more than 43,000 people who work in inpatient and outpatient clinical care, research and graduate medical education. Our employees also serve in critical supporting roles in administration, information technology and informatics, finance, legal and community affairs, communications and marketing, fundraising, groundskeeping and facilities, and many other departments.

Our growing academic health system has more than 2,100 licensed hospital beds at eight hospitals:

• Vanderbilt University Hospital
• Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
• Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital
• Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital
• Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital
• Vanderbilt Clarksville Hospital
• Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital
• Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital

Vanderbilt Health is the Mid-South's largest provider of specialty care, with hundreds of outpatient clinic and surgical locations throughout the region, and Tennessee’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center for adults and children. We are one of the nation's busiest critical care centers, home to Middle Tennessee’s only Level 1 Trauma Center and Burn Center for adults and children, and Middle Tennessee’s only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. We are the nation’s largest transplant center, and last year we performed the most heart transplants than any center worldwide.

Vanderbilt Health is an epicenter for biomedical research, winning over $1 billion in annual research awards from government, industry, foundations and donors. We are also a national leader in medical training and education, with the largest clinical training center in the Mid-South and the only training center in Tennessee for many adult and pediatric specialties.

We’re honored to be consistently considered among the nation’s best hospitals for quality, safety and patient satisfaction. Three of our hospitals — Vanderbilt University Hospital, Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital — have been awarded a Five-Star Quality Rating from Medicare.

We support each other and encourage excellence among every member of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt Health for professional growth opportunities, competitive compensation and benefits, and a sense of community and purpose.

Join us in advancing health care.

Our vision: The world leader in advancing personalized health

Our mission: Personalizing the patient experience through our caring spirit and distinctive capabilities