Senior Consultant, Strategic Communications, Project Management

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

📋 Description

• Act as the strategic and operational leader for intricate, multi-faceted local public health initiatives.

• Oversee the overall strategy, planning, execution, and coordination of projects.

• Convert client objectives into comprehensive work plans that include phases, deliverables, decision points, dependencies, accountable parties, and progress metrics.

• Direct and coordinate project team members, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders.

• Facilitate client meetings, partner workshops, decision-making discussions, and strategic planning sessions.

• Manage the review, quality assurance, and approval processes for project outputs.

• Monitor project scope, timelines, budget, risks, and evolving priorities; recommend necessary adjustments.

• Utilize implementation feedback and evaluation insights to fine-tune strategies, resources, and support methods.

• Prepare executive briefings, recommendations, progress reports, and transition plans.

• Integrate communication and engagement strategies into initiatives, governance, workflows, staff development, and future planning.

• Lead the design of projects and maintain client relationships.

• Serve as a technical expert and/or individual contributor on specialized workstreams.

• Manage projects to achieve exemplary client satisfaction.

• Identify business opportunities with existing clients and collaborate with leadership to pursue them.

• Conduct outreach to source new clients and relevant RFPs.

• Allocate approximately 85% of time to project work, 5% to administrative duties, and 10% to business development.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 6 years of relevant experience, including 4 or more years in a consulting firm setting.

• A minimum of 4 years of client-facing experience, including 2 or more years in project leadership roles.

• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a fast-paced consulting environment.

• Proven success in leading complex, multi-workstream projects, ideally for public-sector clients, from planning through implementation.

• Advanced project management capabilities, including work planning, decision tracking, risk management, scope control, quality assurance, and team coordination across approval processes.

• Outstanding facilitation, research synthesis, and executive communication skills.

• A Master's degree in Public Health, public policy, public administration, organizational leadership, or a related field is highly preferred.

• People management experience is preferred.

• Familiarity with state and local public health systems, municipal government, and the policy and funding landscape affecting local public health is preferred.

• Experience in managing projects within a communications, media, or design-related field is preferred.

• Background in organizational change, governance, and implementing new functions across complex organizations is preferred.

• Alignment with BME's shared values.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States; BME Strategies is unable to sponsor work-related visas.

🏝️ Benefits

• More than 6 weeks of total leave, including paid vacation, sick time, personal leave, and floating holidays.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance, with 80% employer-paid coverage for employees and 70% for dependents.

• Health FSA and dependent care FSA options available.

• 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions.

• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.

• One-time technology stipend provided.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Occasional travel to client locations, conferences, training sessions, or meetings.