Director of the Future of Government Talent Program

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Democracy ForwardPublic Sector Innovation

Within the United StatesFull-TimeDirector

Salary150000 - 170000 USD per year

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Experience: 10+ years

Requirements

10+ years of experience in workforce development, organizational design, talent strategy, or public sector innovation.
Experience managing small, high-capacity teams in cross-functional and collaborative environments.
Deep understanding of both federal hiring systems and modern, mission-aligned talent models.
Demonstrated ability to build distributed strategies and work across technical, policy, and community-based teams.
Excellent project management, facilitation, and stakeholder coordination skills.
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 a team of fellows to redesign process across key federal functions (e.g. HR, procurement, regulation, customer experience, technology, AI, public engagement).
Build and manage a small internal team of HR and technical experts supporting cross-functional design and research.
Support organizational leadership in cultivating a culture of accountability, inclusivity, and excellence, including through providing real-time support and skills-development for your team.
Convene and collaborate with external domain experts (AI, regulatory, HR, tech, etc.) to co-design staffing models that reflect how modern delivery actually works.
Ensure new team models are agile, tech-enabled, interdisciplinary, and built to solve real problems, not replicate outdated org charts.
Develop and implement a strategy to identify and recruit mission-ready talent from federal alumni and state/local leaders to private-sector innovators and community-rooted practitioners.
Define the skills, values, and lived experience needed for 21st-century public service and shape the strategies that bring those people in.
Lead the development or procurement of a digital platform to match individuals with redesigned teams and government missions.
Lead partnership development with organizations to provide training on key, cross-cutting skills for future talent.
Build and manage partnerships with academic institutions, public interest orgs, workforce programs, and civic tech networks.
Lead co-design sessions with partners across the ecosystem—bringing in the lived expertise of those who know what functional teams must look like (e.g., regulators, procurement specialists, technologists).
Align the talent initiative with the other projects in Democracy Works 250: federal oral history project, personnel policy, and agency redesigning efforts.
Collaborate with legal, research, and communications partners to test, refine, and package talent transformation and recruitment efforts.
Contribute to and collaborate across other DW250 projects.

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