The Senior Leadership & Organizational Development Specialist designs, facilitates, implements, coordinates, and continuously improves leadership, professional development, and organizational capability initiatives that strengthen individual, team, and organizational performance. This role partners with leaders, Human Resources, subject matter experts, and enterprise teams to identify capability needs and deliver scalable solutions that build leadership effectiveness, organizational readiness, employee growth, and workforce capability. This role develops leadership programs, team effectiveness initiatives, and capability-building strategies that support leadership development, culture enablement, succession readiness, employee engagement, and organizational performance while creating best in class programs, tools, frameworks, and experiences that enable employees and leaders to grow, adapt, and thrive in a changing business environment.

GREENSTATE CULTURE:

At GreenState, our purpose is to create lasting value for our members, our communities, and one another. We empower our teams to create opportunities that strengthen financial well-being, transform lives, and enhance the vitality of the communities we serve. We know our success—now and in the future—is deeply rooted in fostering an engaging, diverse, and inclusive workplace where everyone knows they matter, their work makes an impact, and their everyday commitment to living our values is what brings our mission to life.  

This is an on-site role with the flexibility to be based at either our Clive, IA location or the North Liberty Financial Center.

Salary range for this position is $90,593.36 - $105,914.12 with a progressive benefit package. 

1. Adheres to the Credit Union's core values and Service Standards in conducting GreenState's mission and vision.
2. Demonstrates a positive member service (internal and external) focus at all times.
3. Demonstrates teamwork in all interactions with coworkers and in the completion of all duties and responsibilities.
4. Ensures confidentiality of member information.
5. Supports a diverse and inclusive work environment.
6. Design, develop, facilitate, and continuously improve leadership development, organizational capability, and professional growth initiatives that strengthen workforce readiness and organizational effectiveness.
7. Partner with leaders, Human Resources, and business stakeholders to identify capability gaps and develop solutions aligned to organizational priorities and business objectives.
8. Facilitate leadership development programs, workshops, cohorts, team effectiveness sessions, and professional development experiences that build leadership capability and employee effectiveness.
9. Support leadership pipeline development through onboarding, emerging leader programs, manager development, succession readiness, and leadership growth initiatives.
10. Design and administer high-potential employee development programs, career growth experiences, and development pathways that prepare employees for future opportunities.
11. Develop programs and resources that strengthen leadership competencies, coaching skills, communication, collaboration, emotional intelligence, influence, change agility, and other critical workforce capabilities.
12. Partner with leaders and teams to support organizational effectiveness, team development, culture enablement, and change adoption initiatives.
13. Create and maintain leadership toolkits, development resources, facilitator guides, playbooks, assessments, and learning materials that support scalable capability-building efforts.
14. Serve as a trusted resource and consultant to leaders by providing guidance related to employee development, leadership effectiveness, team performance, and capability-building strategies.
15. Monitor participant feedback, capability measures, engagement data, and program outcomes to evaluate effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
16. Collaborate with Learning Experience Design, Learning Performance, and Learning Technology & Data teams to ensure capability solutions are aligned, measurable, and sustainable.
17. Support organizational change initiatives and strategic priorities by developing learning, communication, reinforcement, and adoption strategies that strengthen employee and leader readiness.
18. Mentor and support less experienced team members while contributing to Learning & Development standards, methodologies, and best practices.
19. Research emerging leadership, organizational development, workforce capability, and learning trends to continuously evolve programs and practices.
20. Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

1. Bachelor's degree in Organizational Development, Human Resources, Learning & Development, Business, Psychology, Communications, Education, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
2. Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in leadership development, organizational development, talent development, workforce capability, learning and development, or a related discipline.
3. Demonstrated experience designing and facilitating leadership development, professional development, team effectiveness, or organizational capability programs.
4. Strong knowledge of adult learning principles, leadership development methodologies, change management practices, and organizational effectiveness concepts.
5. Experience partnering with leaders and stakeholders to assess capability needs and develop practical solutions that improve performance and effectiveness.
6. Strong consulting, facilitation, coaching, communication, and relationship management skills.
7. Demonstrated ability to influence and build credibility across all levels of the organization without direct authority.
8. Experience supporting leadership pipeline development, succession readiness, talent development, or employee growth initiatives.
9. Strong business acumen with the ability to connect leadership and organizational capability initiatives to business strategy, workforce needs, and organizational performance.
10. Ability to evaluate program effectiveness using participant feedback, performance indicators, engagement measures, and business outcomes.
11. Experience supporting organizational change, culture initiatives, team effectiveness efforts, or business transformation activities.
12. Proficiency with learning technologies, virtual facilitation tools, assessment platforms, and Microsoft Office applications.
13. Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and initiatives simultaneously.
14. Professional certification in Talent Development, Organizational Development, Coaching, Leadership Development, Change Management, or related disciplines preferred.
15. Must be bondable.