About Tides!
Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing social justice. We work across the social sector to shift power to leaders, communities of color, and other historically excluded groups who face systemic barriers. Applying our equity-centered lens and leveraging our vast network of changemakers, we work to strengthen the impact of our partners by offering services like fiscal sponsorship, donor advised funds, impact investing, and grantmaking. For more information, please visit www.tides.org.

The Role:
The Director, Organizational Development develops co-created strategies to design, plan, and implement critical organizational development programs, policies, and procedures. Programmatic areas under the oversight of the Director, Organizational Development include performance management, employee experience, organizational design, and learning and development.

The Director, Organizational Development (OD) will work cross-functionally to innovate, define, lead, and optimize the resources, plans, processes, and platforms required to deliver operational excellence and support the growth and engagement of Tidesters. This position will co-create and lead the strategic vision for the OD function and deliver inspiring and impactful content, events, and learning experiences that provide team members with what they need to be successful and accountable in their roles. The Director, Organizational Development will be instrumental to informing career lattices and deploying framework for Tidesters to achieve their career objectives and optimize their impact.

The overall goal is to build organizational capacity and capability to strengthen individual and team skills and competencies, reinforcing a continuous learning culture and fostering an environment where Tidesters can grow their career and perform at their best. This role will drive impact and foster a culture that is grounded in Justice, Equity, Inclusion & Diversity (JEDI) and Tides core values – Respect, Accountability, Creativity, Equity, and Empowerment.

What you will do:

• Ensure complete understanding of organizational needs by building internal trust and relationships with Tidesters at all levels.
• Engage with Tidesters and organization leaders to identify, develop and lead training and educational programs that align to Tides core values and strategic plan.
• Partner closely with leadership to develop training content (created internally or by using external training vendors). Recommends a variety of training mediums based on content and audience.
• Continuously assess the organization’s learning and development needs across all levels and teams, working with stakeholders.
• Manage, monitor and evaluate the performance of OD programs and initiatives to measure program effectiveness and impact.
• Analyze training content, user acceptance and facilitation vehicles in gap analysis to recommend best practice solutions to influence positive behaviors in alignment with Tides values and strategic plan.
• Partner with key stakeholders to develop, deploy, and manage critical learning programs including onboarding, mentoring, manager/supervisor training, and other skill and strengths-based development opportunities.
• Provide consultative support and services to Tidesters regarding team building and engagement in partnership with Employee Relations.
• Design, create, and implements appropriate OD and change frameworks, resources, toolkits, guides, webinars, and training, collaborates with Tidesters to co-create.
• Serve as thought partner to inform effective strategies to solve organizational challenges or enhance programs, practices, and procedures.
• Collaborate across Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI), Talent Acquisition and other People functions to create comprehensive and inclusive learning strategies for the organization.
• Create and implement competency model in partnership with organization leaders to support performance management, and succession planning activities on an ongoing basis.
• Ensure the employee onboarding experience includes required and optimal learning content.
• Regularly communicate useful learning and development information to leaders and to the organization.
• Monitor department expense budget and keep purchases/expenditures within guidelines for current and future growth and development of the function.
• Monitor organizational health and respond with appropriate interventions.
• Design and implement team development and effectiveness programs.

Team Leadership

• Support and develop direct report(s).
• Exhibit strong leadership skills to ensure and promote team development through coaching, training, and support.

What you will bring:

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of various third-party learning content tools and other training resources including LinkedIn Learning.
• Knowledge of LMS systems deployment and implementation on an enterprise level.
• Ability to create and manage scalable programs in diversity and inclusion, people experience and talent development using best in class learning management technologies and in partnership with subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Ability and willingness to be a strategist but also a hands-on trainer and facilitator.
• Demonstrated expertise in organizational design and implementing and managing culture change.
• Strong understanding of job and organizational design best practices.
• Demonstrated success working with and leading cross-functional teams, committees, workgroups with tangible results.
• Strong knowledge and experience in organizational development and effectiveness interventions, best practices, and applications.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, organizational development or equivalent years of related work experience can be substituted for a college degree.
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience leading organizational development and education for adult learners.
• Strong track record of leading and developing teams.
• Extensive experience creating programs for individual, team, and organizational developmental learning outcomes.
• Deep experience in strategic planning with a combination of change management, organizational development, and program management.
• Experience working in a labor union environment preferred.
• Experience building or has been part of building an organizational development or culture function within a steadily growing and distributed workforce.
• Experience with implementing virtual and remote learning.
• Experience managing developmental learning paths from initiation to closure, develops learning plans and milestones, secures appropriate resources, and provides stakeholder updates on the progress.
• 3+ years’ experience with managing direct reports.

Life at Tides

Working at Tides connects you with world-class teammates, enduring relationships, and an inspired sense of purpose - while our employee benefits support our team’s talent and well-being. This is an exciting time to join Tides. In the past, Tides staff have worked predominantly from our offices in San Francisco and New York. Today, our hybrid work model supports staff with remote work from anywhere in the United States.

Salary Range
Tides is committed to providing a competitive compensation package. The starting salary for this role ranges from $128,800 to $193,200 based on geographic location, years of experience, and ensuring pay equity within the organization. The recruiting team is committed to sharing more details regarding compensation based on the candidate's experience and location during the interview process. Tides offers a generous benefits package including comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off, life and disability insurances, retirement plan, educational assistance, confidential counseling, and life balance resources designed to support the passion, commitment and energy that is vital to our team members.

Important Information

Any Tides Network employee who wishes to use the office or travel to the office must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and boosted. You are required to submit prooSf of vaccination to the Human Resources Department at least 2 days before your first visit to the office. Employees who do not have vaccination information on file will not be permitted in the building.

Application Instructions

Please submit a resume and a thoughtful cover letter online. Your cover letter should express your interest in working for Tides and your qualifications for the role. You may also share your detailed LinkedIn profile with us. Tides is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we look forward to reviewing applications from all who are qualified to apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Tides is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions. Also pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Applicants with Disabilities

Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. If you seek an accommodation, please advise in writing at the time you apply.