The Office of Career & Professional Development's organizational strategy included building a strategic plan, an organizational management model, an annual planning structure, and cultivating a healthy work environment. Developing an organizational strategy has been a priority, with the intention of building a highly productive, highly functional organization that effectively serves students and postdoctoral scholars. 

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Our Strategic Plan

See an overview of the OCPD overall strategic plan, designed to focus our efforts on priority areas and develop the staff's ability to work as a team. Key issues addressed include 1) defining who the OCPD serves; 2) determining how best to serve them; 3) identifying and addressing gaps in the knowledge and skills of staff, including program design, teaching, assessment, and counseling; 4) avoiding staff burnout; assessing effectiveness; 5) establishing and maintaining strategic collaborations, and 6) focusing on intentional and sustainable growth.

OCPD's Organizational Management Model

View OCPD's strategic management model, to learn more about how the OCPD manages it's operations. The office's management model has five focal points: Staff, SPIR (Services, Programs, Initiatives and Resources), Money, Infastracture, RAD (Research, Assessment & Data). The OCPD uses key questions, and regular strategic meetings to assess the functionality of the office, and to identify and address barriers to productivity in each area.

Cultivating a Healthy Work Environment 

The OCPD staff counsel trainees that they deserve to work in healthy environments, encourage them to seek out those environments when seeking further training or employment, and as future leaders, insist that they take an active role in fostering healthy environments. The OCPD staff do not believe that they can authentically take that position, unless they themselves are willing to do the work to actively create a high functioning, supportive environment. Read about the Office's efforts here.

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Strategic Collaborations

Read about the OCPD's four types of collaborations, and the role that collaborations play in implementing career and professional development efforts to UCSF's students and postdoctoral scholars. 

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• Organizational Strategy Team Lead. Naledi Saul, MPM, [email protected], 415.476.4986

• Resources, Programs, Staff, Data and Assessment, Infrastructure, Funding, Strategic plan, Strategy, Career development model