Director of Government Workforce Reform
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Democracy ForwardGovernment Workforce Reform
Remote; Washington, District of Columbia, United StatesFull-TimeDirector
Salary150000 - 170000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience in workforce policy, HR systems, reform design, or cross-sector coalition work
- Deep working knowledge of federal personnel systems (OPM, Title 5, SES, hiring/classification, etc.)
- Demonstrated leadership in large-scale policy initiatives, reform campaigns, or systems design
- Exceptional writing, synthesis, and facilitation skills
- Comfort working across legal, narrative, operational, and movement-building dimensions
- Well-developed collaborative and interpersonal skills including demonstrated self-awareness, commitment to diversity and inclusivity, and ability to work with colleagues and stakeholders across diverse cultures and backgrounds
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of the Federal Capacity Solutions Lab—a comprehensive set of policy, operational, and structural reforms to modernize how the U.S. government manages its people.
- Build out bold, concrete proposals across key domains—hiring, pay, performance, flexibility, classification, talent mobility, AI integration, and more.
- Serve as lead strategist and convener of a national table of civil service experts, labor leaders, civic organizations, technologists, and policy innovators.
- Facilitate shared alignment around key reform priorities, manage regular convenings, and turn consensus into coordinated action.
- Oversee policy tracks tackling the most urgent and structural challenges in the federal workforce.
- Supervise fellows leading policy track working groups across priority areas (e.g., hiring, performance, surge capacity).
- Integrate outputs into a dynamic and evolving policy architecture that builds toward the options library.
- Align the policy track with insights and infrastructure from the other projects in Democracy Works 250: federal oral history project, talent program, and agency redesigning efforts.
- Collaborate with legal, research, and communications partners to test, refine, and package reform outputs.
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