Management Consultant, Strategic Resilience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead teams in performing open-source policy research, data analysis, and GIS-based spatial analysis for recovery planning, hazard mitigation plans, grant strategies, and grant submissions.

• Act as the technical lead for hazard mitigation plans, resilience strategies, and long-term recovery initiatives.

• Facilitate engagement with stakeholders and the public.

• Conduct risk and vulnerability assessments.

• Align mitigation priorities with local land-use and capital improvement planning.

• Create grant-funding roadmaps.

• Oversee and conduct economic analyses and benefit-cost analyses for federal funding applications and planning projects.

• Develop client-ready plans, reports, grant narratives, maps, figures, infographics, and graphics.

• Manage internal project teams and supervise technical work.

• Maintain relationships with key clients and projects, ensuring client satisfaction and spotting growth opportunities.

• Support business development, opportunity capture, proposal writing, white papers, opinion pieces, and marketing initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Planning, Public and/or Environmental Justice or Policy, Economics, or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience in community, regional, or hazard mitigation planning, which includes research, data and policy analysis, grant management, and the development of plans, policies, technical reports, and FEMA mitigation grant applications.

• 5+ years of experience in conducting GIS and/or economic analysis relevant to resilience or hazard mitigation planning.

• Strong writing and communication skills, encompassing the ability to author plans, technical reports, and government grant narratives.

• Willingness and capability to travel by flight and vehicle throughout the United States as needed.

• Valid current U.S. driver’s license and successful completion of an MVR check.

• Familiarity with natural hazard resilience concepts, risk assessments, and hazard mitigation strategies.

• Knowledge of FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance programs, such as HMGP, FMA, and BRIC.

• Proficiency in GIS tools, including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, FEMA Hazus, as well as hazard and risk data, spatial analysis, cartographic products, and web maps.

• Experience with economic analysis tools and methodologies, including FEMA BCA Toolkit, USDOT Benefit-Cost Analysis Guidance, and/or USACE frameworks.

• Background in report development, document design, and data visualization.

• Excellent time management skills with the ability to juggle multiple projects with tight deadlines.

• Experience working directly with client leadership and senior project leads.

• Capability to identify client needs and business risks while implementing mitigation strategies.

• Ability to offer constructive feedback and enhance work products.

• Skill in formulating creative and strategic problem-solving approaches.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication, editing, quality review, and presentation skills.

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for upward mobility.

• Ability to build and maintain client relationships.

• Access to guidance and mentorship from a world-class team of professionals.

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations throughout the application and employment process.