MemorialCare is a nonprofit integrated health system that includes four leading hospitals, award-winning medical groups – consisting of over 200 sites of care, and more than 2,000 physicians throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties. We are committed to increasing access to patient-centric, affordable, and high-quality healthcare; your personal contributions are integral to MemorialCare's recognition as a market leader and innovator in value-based and other care models.

Across our family of medical centers, we support each one of our bright, talented employees in reaching the highest levels of professional development, contribution, collaboration, and accountability. Whatever your role and whatever expertise you bring, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential in an environment of respect, innovation, and teamwork.

Position Summary
The Organizational Development Specialist will partner with HR leaders, executives, and management to support organizational development, organizational effectiveness, employee relations development, and communication initiatives that align with the MemorialCare's mission, vision, strategic. The Organizational Development Specialist will design and implement organizational talent initiatives including leadership development, succession planning, engagement strategy, recognition and development, change management, and workforce planning. The Organizational Development Specialist will facilitate the delivery of Organizational Development and services to support the business objectives in partnership with HR team leaders and staff.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities of the Job

• Analyzes business structures, procedures, processes, and the utilization of resources. Provides change management support for human resources and organizational strategies. Collaborates with human resources partners and department leaders to assess, create and/or facilitate solutions for increased individual and team effectiveness.
• Leads, develops, implements, and drives key strategic talent initiatives such as leadership development, career development, and training. Designs and implements a variety of developmental initiatives, action plans, programs, and training materials. Creates and delivers change programs including training, stakeholder engagement, communications, and program management.
• Leads and manages organizational development projects and programs from initial contracting through post-intervention evaluation. Manages large projects or processes with limited oversight from manager. Understands the business priorities and strategies and how to support the design and evolution of the organization’s operating model, organizational model, roles, responsibilities, programs and processes to enable success against those priorities.
• Designs customized organizational development interventions, including but not limited to team effectiveness and alignment, development planning, organization design, strategic planning, and change management. Measures the effectiveness of the talent development programs, systems, tools and procedures. Reviews and makes recommendations for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Leads talent management initiatives and projects, including but not limited to onboarding, performance management and succession planning. Partners with a variety of key stakeholders across all cross functional workgroups. Develops methods for measuring effectiveness of all programs that support organizational development work. Collects data and tracks progress by reviewing results, reporting on trends, and recommending actions.
• Partners with executives to lead the design, implementation, and assessment of major organizational change projects. Documents processes and presents progress reports to executives and senior managers.
• Contributes to the restructuring of departments to increase efficiency and align activities with business objective