2026 DoD SkillBridge - State & Local Government Fellowship

Job Family:

Management Consulting, Operational Effectiveness, Operational Effectiveness Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

None

At Guidehouse, we help transitioning service members, from all branches of the U.S. Military, prepare for new opportunities and connections in their careers. Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public and commercial markets with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. We help clients address their toughest challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures with a focus on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that prepare our clients for future growth and success. The company has more than 10,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit: www.guidehouse.com.

Guidehouse has teamed up with the Department of Defense (DoD) SkillBridge Program to provide career opportunities supporting clients within the following segments:

• Communities, Energy & Infrastructure

• Defense & Security

• Financial Services

• Health

• Technology

What You Will Do:

The Guidehouse SkillBridge Internship Program staffs interns on real world projects, showcasing the Guidehouse culture, and providing them with a meaningful consulting experience. Interns work with teams and provide real time deliverables in support of the clients. Each Intern is paired with a Buddy to serve as a resource that can assist them in navigating their Guidehouse experience.

The following description items are listed as a reference for what a DoD SkillBridge Internship may look like, and aren't inclusive of all duties or learning opportunities.

• Manage/participate with teams and/or projects, lead business interactions.

• Identify opportunities and business needs: maintain and utilize relationships as well as communication of value proposition

• Prepare and/or coordinate complex written presentation materials

• Develop solutions based on an understanding of strategy, operations and management within the finance functional area with partnership from other functional areas

• Utilize previous experience to help set and achieve long term goals

• Perform accurate analysis and design effective solutions to a variety or organizational issues.

• Create strategies and blueprints that use machine learning to improve operations and refine processes

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership

• Evaluate and suggest improvements of business processes and systems/applications.

• Responsible for maintaining effective communication within team and coordination with a local office and other departments.

• Drive special project as needed, through direction of leadership.

• Develop presentation-quality deliverables to leadership

As a Skillbridge Intern at Guidehouse, you will join a team of professionals who combine technical expertise with business pragmatism to support clients in the commercial and/or public sector. You will have a unique opportunity to develop your skills in a variety of areas while working in a collaborative team environment to provide our clients with innovate solutions to their most pressing problems.

Our SkillBridge Interns help our clients transform their business processes, improve internal controls, improve efficiency of operations, increase transparency and performance management, and to comply with Federal laws and regulations. During your internship, you will be given the opportunity to support projects to address some of the most significant project challenges faced by our private and federal clients. The nature of our projects is extremely fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to develop solutions on their own or in a team of highly skilled professionals.  Interns are provided the opportunity to interact with our clients' senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of technical competency, business development, client service and people development.

At the conclusion of this internship, Service Members will have the following know