Director, High Potential Leadership Programs

CACI International • Reston, VA

21h

About The Position

The Director, High Potential Leadership Programs leads the design, development, and delivery of Elevate@CACI, the enterprise’s high-potential leadership acceleration portfolio serving three distinct talent segments: identified successors for critical enterprise roles (Enterprise), high-potential mid-level leaders (Connection), and emerging leaders (NextGen). The Director shapes Elevate@CACI as a differentiated, high-impact portfolio of cohort-based experiences that integrate vertical development, 360 assessments, executive engagement, leadership coaching, and enterprise stretch assignments. The portfolio accelerates successor readiness, prepares high-potential leaders for expanded scope, increasing levels of complexity, and influence, and builds a robust pipeline of emerging talent equipped to step into future leadership roles.

Requirements

• 10+ years in leadership development, talent acceleration, or executive development
• Demonstrated experience designing high-potential or executive acceleration programs
• Experience linking development strategy to succession planning
• Executive presence and strong stakeholder management capability
• Formal coaching certification and applied coaching experience
• Strong program governance and portfolio management skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience in complex, matrixed organizations
• Familiarity with succession planning frameworks and talent review processes
• Experience integrating 360 tools and executive assessments into development journeys

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic design and governance of Elevate@CACI (NextGen, Connection, Enterprise)
• Partner with VP Talent Development and VP HR Business Consulting to calibrate participant selection criteria and readiness expectations.
• Use talent review data to define program scope and focus
• Design high-impact, cohort-based experiences
• Engage ELT and senior executives as sponsors, speakers, and mentors
• Ensure participants build meaningful enterprise networks beyond their line of business or function
• Embed individual and group coaching experiences within each Elevate cohort
• Use 360s, assessments, and readiness data to personalize development focus
• Establish clear governance, selection criteria, and evaluation frameworks
• Track impact against readiness, mobility, retention, and leadership pipeline health
• Ensure on-time, on-budget, high-quality execution of all cohorts
• Establish clear program plans, milestones, risks, and success metrics
• Track outcomes and continuously improve programs using feedback, data, and business results

Benefits

• Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
• We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities.
• Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families.
• At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed