Senior Consultant

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

📋 Description

• Lead intricate analytical and delivery projects within Federal transformation initiatives.

• Take ownership of complex work packages or significant deliverable components, overseeing them from planning through to client acceptance.

• Convert ambiguous client inquiries into structured analyses, detailed workplans, evidence requirements, and decision-making points.

• Organize and facilitate interviews, workshops, validation sessions, process reviews, and collaborative meetings.

• Evaluate competing evidence, pinpoint gaps and trade-offs, and formulate defensible findings and recommendations.

• Develop or customize methods, templates, taxonomies, analytical criteria, quality checks, and performance metrics.

• Manage interdependencies across mission, acquisition, financial, technology, data, and organizational stakeholders.

• Prepare and present client-ready reports, roadmaps, dashboards, governance products, implementation strategies, or executive decision materials.

• Review and enhance team output; mentor Consultants in analysis, writing, facilitation, and consulting judgment.

• Oversee risks, assumptions, decisions, and project scope; escalate significant issues without delay.

• Foster capability across related disciplines.

• Carry out other job-related responsibilities as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or a combination of education, training, and relevant experience that is equivalent.

• Typically 6–10 years of progressively responsible experience in consulting, Federal delivery, analysis, transformation, acquisition, data, process, change, or program management.

• Proven experience in managing complex deliverables, stakeholder engagements, analyses, and recommendations.

• Exceptional facilitation, analytical writing, executive communication, problem structuring, and quality review abilities.

• Capacity to lead in ambiguous situations, manage multiple priorities, and make informed recommendations based on incomplete information.

• Experience in mentoring or coordinating junior team members and collaborating across various functional areas.

• A strong sense of ownership and a proactive approach.

• Demonstrated learning agility and curiosity.

• Commitment to team-first collaboration.

• Resilience and a positive attitude.

• Trustworthiness and dedication.

• Ability to sit for extended periods at a desk and work on a computer; may occasionally need to stand or move around the office for long durations.

• Must successfully pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

• Experience in requirements development and management, business analysis, traceability, capability analysis, or systems analysis.

• Proficiency in data inventory, normalization, quality, analysis, visualization, dashboard design, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, SQL, or similar tools.

• Knowledge of organizational change, stakeholder engagement, communications, facilitation, training, roadshows, or adoption measurement.

• Experience in program or project management, integrated scheduling, risk and dependency management, quality assurance, PWS development, or executive reporting.

• Familiarity with DHS, CISA, cybersecurity, or other complex Federal mission environments; ability to obtain and maintain necessary suitability and access.

• Understanding of Federal acquisition, contracting, procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or contract-portfolio analysis.

• Experience leading complex change initiatives for Federal programs.

• Expertise in enterprise process improvement, operating model design, governance, decision rights, performance measurement, or Lean Six Sigma.

• Experience in process optimization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Up to a 6% company match for 401(k).

• Paid time off.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Coverage for prescription drugs.

• Basic life and AD&D insurance.

• Options for supplemental life insurance.

• Coverage for short-term and long-term disability.

• Paid holidays.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).

• Health Savings Account (HSA).

• Support for professional development, training, and certification.

• Voluntary accident, critical illness, and identity theft protection.