Senior Workforce Organizational Design SME

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.

• 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

Required:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
• Bachelors 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

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland Federal Civilian Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story visit .

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