Director of Coaching

Company: Withum Smith+Brown
Location: Irvine
Posted on: January 12, 2021

Job Description:

Are you passionate about helping others explore their career interests and prepare for future development opportunities? Do you enjoy facilitating conversations with fellow professionals seeking to leverage their distinct abilities? WithumSmithBrown, P.C., is a forward-thinking, technology-driven advisory and accounting firm, helping clients to Be in a Position of StrengthSM in today---s modern business landscape. Withum empowers clients with innovative tools and solutions to address their accounting, tax and overall business management needs. Withum is a place where talent thrives. We recruit only the best and brightest people, with a genuine passion for the business. As a Director, you---ll oversee Withum---s Professional Coaching Program and work with key leaders in order to shape coaching strategy, learning and development and opportunities to improve the overall employee experience. As you collaborate with leaders firmwide, they will look to your expertise in delivering performance evaluations and facilitating talent management and succession planning conversations. Withum---s brand is a reflection of our people, our culture and our strength. Withum has become synonymous with teamwork and client service excellence. The cornerstone of our success can truly be accredited to the dedicated professionals who work here every day, whose mission is to help our clients grow and thrive - to be in a position of strength. But our commitment goes beyond our clients as we continue to live the Withum Way, promoting personal and professional growth for all team members, clients, and surrounding communities.How you---ll spend your time:Oversee career coaching program and manage the development of internal career coachesActively and proactively partner with key leaders in talent and client facing teams in shaping coaching strategy, key learning and development, and opportunities to improve employee experienceConduct coaching needs assessments to identify opportunities and drive desired changes and outcomesEmpower team members to feel ownership of their professional and personal growth through impactful coaching experiences at the senior levelConduct internal executive coaching and manage external executive coaching engagements; including facilitation of 360 feedback, assessments and related interventionsProvide consulting support to niche and service line leadership on how to best create high performing teams, consider succession planning, and design key team building initiativesLeverage data to evaluate strategies and programs measuring the achievement of established goals and action plansQualified candidates will have:Bachelor---s Degree in Psychology, Communications, Organizational Development or Business preferredICF or other coaching certificateMaster's Degree in Industrial psychology, OD, or Organizational Leadership preferredExperience in a public accounting firm preferredInternational experience is a plusCertifications in 360 feedback and related psychometrics tools highly desiredExperience developing leadership development assessment and curriculumHR/OD Consulting experience a plusStrong platform / facilitation skillsBranding or employee communications background is a strong advantageExperience as a leader having had past oversight of direct reportsThe kinds of people we want to talk to also have many of the following:Executive presenceLeadership capacity and ability to mentor and develop othersResults driven and adept at goal settingClient focused with strong customer orientationActively partners and collaborates towards best solutionsEnlists others and leads change through building rapport and demonstrating passionSelf-starter that demonstrates leadership with or without formal authority, evidences strong influencing skillsPossesses a high degree of emotional intelligence and can be flexible and adapt easilyInquisitive and able to drill down to find root cause of performance issues --- excellent listening skillsAbility to thrive in an ambiguous environment and deliver in a matrix organizationExcellent facilitation and presentation skillsGlobal perspective and ability to work with diverse culturesWithum will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or because he or she is a protected veteran.LI-NN1

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