Senior Organizational Development Consultant​/Executive Leadership Coach Advocate IT

Senior Organizational Development Consultant / Executive Leadership Coach

Advocate IT, LLC | Frederick, MD / Silver Spring, MD

Job Type: Full-time / Contract

Work Location:

Primarily remote with meetings as needed at FDA White Oak Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD

Advocate IT, LLC is a Maryland-based, SBA-certified Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small business and Disability-Owned Business Enterprise (DOBE) providing technology, operational, and customer engagement services to federal, state, and commercial clients. Headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, Advocate IT supports mission-critical programs in regulated environments where customer service, accuracy, and accountability matter.

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Advocate IT is seeking a highly experienced Senior Organizational Development Consultant / Executive Leadership Coach to support strategic implementation and leadership coordination for a federal regulatory customer. This individual will serve as a senior subject matter expert supporting executive-level coordination, enterprise alignment, milestone tracking, implementation planning, and decision support across a complex, multi-office compliance environment.

The successful candidate will help senior leadership translate high-visibility regulatory, policy, and operational priorities into structured implementation plans, decision frameworks, performance measures, milestone tracking processes, and cross-office coordination mechanisms. This role requires demonstrated experience supporting executive leadership, organizational development, strategic implementation, and enterprise-level change management in federal regulatory or similarly complex institutional environments.

• Provide strategic implementation and leadership coordination support for cross-office compliance initiatives
• Facilitate executive-level coordination, decision support, and structured leadership engagement
• Synthesize complex, multi-office inputs into clear decision frameworks, briefing materials, action trackers, and executive-ready recommendations
• Support enterprise alignment across multiple offices by developing communication mechanisms, shared reference materials, and coordination processes
• Identify inconsistencies, gaps, dependencies, handoff issues, and execution risks across organizational components
• Support milestone tracking for high-visibility initiatives involving deadlines, deliverables, interdependencies, and accountability across multiple offices
• Design tracking frameworks that reflect how work flows across offices, leadership structures, and operational processes
• Support strategic implementation planning for Presidential, HHS, FDA, CDER, and compliance-related priorities
• Conduct assessments of existing strategic plans, operational plans, procedures, practices, and business processes
• Develop baseline measurements, performance measures, roadmaps, and implementation plans to assess and improve execution effectiveness
• Facilitate leadership discussions, working sessions, planning meetings, and executive coordination activities
• Support organizational development, change management, and leadership execution in a complex federal regulatory environment
• Prepare reports, briefings, roadmaps, trackers, decision memos, and other client-ready deliverables
• Maintain confidentiality and professionalism when handling sensitive operational, regulatory, or leadership information

• Master’s degree in organizational development, public administration, industrial-organizational psychology, business administration, human-systems integration, or a closely related field
• At least ten (10) years of demonstrated experience in management consulting, organizational development, strategic implementation, executive advisory support, or related professional services
• At least five (5) years of senior-level experience supporting executive leaders, enterprise initiatives, or complex multi-stakeholder programs
• Demonstrated experience facilitating executive-level decision-making and coordinating cross-functional initiatives
• Demonstrated experience supporting leadership execution of…