Senior Leadership and Organizational Development Specialist

Senior Leadership & Organizational Development Specialist

SUMMARY:

Mortenson is currently seeking an experienced Senior Leadership & Organizational Development Specialist to join our team. This role will work as a hands-on designer and builder who can independently turn leadership and organizational development strategy into polished, practical products and experiences. Responsibilities include taking work from early concept through prototyping, development and final delivery, while creating visually compelling learning experiences, tools, and resources that leaders can immediately use and apply. Facilitation, consultation and measurement will help you test, improve and scale what is built. This role will help build, connect, and strengthen the leadership development ecosystem by translating established strategies into products, experiences, pathways and infrastructure. The Senior Specialist will contribute ideas and recommendations but is not accountable for owning the overall leadership development strategy or enterprise portfolio.

Location: Minneapolis, MN (HQ)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The core of this role is designing, building and scaling high-quality leadership and organizational development products and experiences. Facilitation, consultation and measurement support that work by helping ensure solutions are relevant, effective and continuously improving.

Design, Build & Product Development

- Personally create polished, ready-to-use leadership and organizational development products, including executive-ready presentations, participant materials, facilitator guides, toolkits, job aids, templates and digital resources.
- Independently lead development from initial concept through prototype, testing, refinement and final production, with limited oversight.
- Use visual storytelling, information design and data visualization to simplify complex concepts and create materials that are intuitive, engaging and executive ready.
- Apply instructional design and adult-learning principles to ensure products are not only visually strong, but also drive application, behavior change and performance.
- Establish reusable templates, standards and design systems that increase consistency, quality and scalability across leadership development experiences.
- Use tools such as PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Cloud, Canva, Articulate 360 and AI-enabled design tools to produce high-quality assets efficiently.

Leadership Journey & Experience Infrastructure

- Support the design and evolution of Mortenson’s enterprise leadership development journey, creating a more connected experience across leadership transitions, programs, tools and ongoing development.
- Translate leadership development strategy into journey maps, experience maps, learning pathways and development touchpoints that help leaders navigate and take ownership of their development.
- Build and maintain the infrastructure that supports leadership development, including program architecture, facilitator resources, participant materials, digital resources, toolkits, templates and experience standards.
- Identify connections, gaps and redundancies across leadership experiences and help create greater consistency across the leadership development ecosystem.
- Help establish a consistent visual and learning experience so individual programs and resources feel like part of one connected leadership journey.
- Translate complex organizational needs into simple, scalable and repeatable solutions that leaders and teams can readily put into practice.
- Prototype, test and continuously improve leadership experiences based on participant feedback, utilization, facilitator experience and evolving business needs.

Facilitation & Delivery

- Serve as a skilled facilitator for high-impact, in-person and virtual leadership programs, learning experiences and team effectiveness sessions.
- Facilitate experiences you help design, using firsthand observations from delivery to continually improve content, tools and the overall participant experience.
- Create engaging environments that balance learning, reflection, discussion, practice and application.
- Navigate complex group dynamics and varied audiences, adapting your approach from developmental learning experiences to strategic, outcome-driven working sessions with intact teams and cross-functional groups.
- Build capability in others by creating facilitator resources and experiences that can be delivered consistently and effectively at scale.

Consultation & Collaboration

- Act as an internal consultant, partnering with leaders, HR Business Partners and internal customers to discover needs, diagnose opportunities and co-create meaningful solutions.
- Ask thoughtful questions and translate loosely defined business or organizational challenges into clear development needs and practical solutions.
- Support enterprise initiatives related to leadership development, culture, engagement and team effectiveness through a leadership and organizational development lens.
- Stay current on emerging practices in learning experience design, leadership development, organizational development, facilitation and technology, bringing fresh ideas and experimentation to the team.

Measurement & Continuous Improvement

- Use participant feedback, assessments, utilization data and business outcomes to evaluate effectiveness and continuously improve leadership development experiences, tools and infrastructure.
- Synthesize quantitative and qualitative insights into clear, actionable recommendations for leaders and partners.
- Balance consistency with experimentation, helping identify what should be scaled, simplified, evolved or discontinued.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Instructional Design, Learning Experience Design, Visual Communication or a related field; equivalent relevant experience will also be considered.
- 6+ years of progressive experience designing and personally developing leadership, professional or organizational development products and experiences, with demonstrated strength in both instructional design and visual or product design.
- Demonstrated instructional design capability, including practical application of adult learning, experiential learning, behavior change and blended learning approaches.
- Demonstrated experience designing and developing leadership, professional or organizational development experiences from concept through delivery.
- Demonstrated visual and product design capability, including information design, visual storytelling, layout, presentation design and the development of polished, professional learning products.
- Experience mapping learner, leader or employee journeys and translating insights into connected development experiences.
- Strong consulting, discovery and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trust, navigate ambiguity and co-create solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple design and development efforts, make sound design decisions and deliver polished products with limited direction.
- Proven facilitation skills with experience engaging audiences at multiple leadership levels, both virtually and in person.
- Experience using tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Cloud, Canva, Articulate 360, Miro/Mural or comparable learning and design platforms.

Preferred

- A portfolio or work samples demonstrating the ability to personally take complex ideas from concept through production, including examples of presentations, learning experiences, toolkits, participant resources, digital products or comparable deliverables.
- Experience developing leadership development architectures, learning pathways, experience maps or development ecosystems.
- Experience with enterprise learning platforms, LMS/LXP technology and HR systems such as Oracle.
- Experience in team effectiveness, coaching or organizational development.

Experience using AI-enabled tools to accelerate research, ideation, prototyping, content creation and

A few benefits offered include:

(for Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week,)

- Medical and prescription drug plans that includes no additional cost vision coverage
- Dental plan
- 401k retirement plan with a generous Mortenson match
- Paid time off, holidays, and other paid leaves
- Employer paid Life, AD&D, and disability insurance
- No-Cost mental health tool and concierge with extensive work-life resources
- Tuition reimbursement
- Adoption Assistance
- Gym Membership Discount Program

The base compensation range for this role is: $89,500 - $134,300. (Actual range is higher for the following office locations: Denver, CO and Chicago, IL – 5%, Seattle, WA, and Portland, OR – 10%, Washington, D.C. – 12.5%). Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skill, and experience with consideration given to internal equity.

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Please make note:

- Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.
- Our postings are typically open a minimum of 5 days and an average of 44 days.

ABOUT MORTENSON

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Your uniqueness brings new and creative perspectives to the team. Mortenson is committed to providing equal opportunities of employment (EOE) to all individuals, regardless of your race, religion, gender, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, marital status or any other legally protected category.

Other Items to Note

- Mortenson reserves the right to hire any individual without legal or financial obligation on unwanted solicitations.  No agency emails, calls, or solicitations are accepted without a valid agreement.
- Must be currently legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status, 0-1, TN, CPT, OPT, etc.). We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.