Democracy Forward

Director of Government Workforce Reform

Democracy Forward

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Washington • District of Columbia • Washington • United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $170,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Drive a transformational process to reimagine how government recruits, supports, and empowers its workforce.
  • Lead a national reform coalition and run high-impact working groups.
  • Translate insights from public servants and cross-sector experts into a reform options library.
  • Architect the Federal Capacity Solutions Lab to modernize government personnel management.
  • Build out proposals across key domains like hiring, pay, performance, and AI integration.
  • Serve as lead strategist and convener of a national table of civil service experts and innovators.
  • Supervise fellows and oversee policy tracks tackling urgent workforce challenges.
  • Integrate outputs into a dynamic policy architecture that builds towards the options library.

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.
Benefits
  • Excellent benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
leadershipwritingsynthesisfacilitationcollaborationinterpersonal skillsself-awarenesscommitment to diversityinclusivityability to work across cultures