Senior Consultant, Security Risk Consulting

This position may be based in Washington DC, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, or the San Francisco Bay area.

We seek a highly motivated, detail-oriented, business-minded professional with creativity, initiative and project management skills to support our crisis and security consulting teams. This position is for a fee-earning consultant who will support clients and other team members across a broad range of risk management projects, with a particular focus on physical security risk management, program design, assessment, improvement and implementation. This role will include project management, delivery of consulting services independently and on teams, and business development support activities.

Tasks and responsibilities

Client delivery

• Deliver, either independently or as a member of a team, Control Risks’ consultancy services to clients by developing innovative solutions to complex security related risks. You will be responsible for scoping, delivering and supporting projects across a broad range of security domains including activities such as security risk assessments, gap analyses, program and organizational design, program/policy/plan development and implementation, training and exercises, and physical security design and reviews, among other areas.
• Work with client stakeholder teams to ensure that business priorities are represented in our security solutions.
• Actively lead on projects from first client enquiry to proposal development, task servicing, quality assurance and project closure.

Business Development

• Continuously enhance client relationships through excellent delivery of projects, wherever possible in close cooperation with the various other departments in Control Risks.
• Proactively seek opportunities to develop projects and business.
• Contribute to marketing through public speaking engagements, the authoring of thought leadership pieces and development of marketing materials.

Requirements

Knowledge and experience

• 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience in a global security role, ideally with a focus on physical security, in a corporate or “in-house” setting or a risk management consulting role.
• Familiarity with corporate security and crisis management industry best practices.
• Ability to successfully deliver quality solutions including written products and oral delivery of training and presentations.

Qualifications and specialist skills

• Bachelor’s degree
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Ability to travel up to 75% of the time and on short notice
• A large degree of flexibility with regards to work schedule and peaks in work intensity
• Exceptional interpersonal communications skills
• Excellent report writing, presentation, project management, time management and prioritization skills
• Ability to multi-task and balance competing requirements
• Critical and analytical problem-solving skills; innovative and willing to join a creative and dynamic working environment
• Confident, solution-oriented and with a positive attitude
• High level of integrity, loyalty and discretion
• Willingness to learn and develop new skills
• Collaborative and a strong team player

The base salary range for this position in California is $110,000-$120,000 per year. Exact compensation offered may vary on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits

• Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer.
• Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasise the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
• Medical Benefits, Prescription Benefits, FSA, Dental Benefits, Vision Benefits, Life and AD&D, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Disability Benefits, Voluntary Benefits, 401 (K) Retirement, Nationwide Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Program