State and Local Senior Consultant

Job Family:

Management Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 75%+

Clearance Required:

None

What You Will Do:

Guidehouse seeks an Organizational Change Management (OCM) and Communications Senior Consultant to take an active role in engagement execution for change management.

• This includes stakeholder management and developing materials around change readiness assessments, communications analysis, communications planning, and the execution of change management and communications collateral.
• Senior Consultants help our clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency and operations, increase transparency, and promote user adoption, and comply with Federal, State, and Local government laws and regulations.
• As a Senior Consultant, you will have responsibility for client management, solution implementation, and overall delivery within your assigned workstream.
• You will be relied upon for project workstreams and interact with clients to ensure engagement success.
• This includes supporting day-to-day operational meetings with clients and consulting leaders.
• Senior Consultants must prepare and communicate well-organized communications and presentations to clients and internal executives.

We encourage career development and hiring for the long term. As a Senior Consultant, you will follow a clearly defined career path and continue to deepen your OCM acumen and consulting skills. A successful Senior Consultant is self-motivated, outcomes-oriented, capable, and willing to develop solutions independently or collaboratively as part of a team of highly skilled professionals. Senior Consultants are provided the opportunity to interact with our clients and to enhance skills across technical competency, business development, and client service.

As a Senior Consultant, you will work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting experience, helping our public sector clients solve complex issues from strategy to execution.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

• Proactively assist in the delivery of engagement activities and manage the completion of deliverables

• Work independently, with minimal supervision, and partner with others to develop relationships across the engagement team

• Lead one or more tasks or work streams within a client engagement, overseeing individual contributions as well as potentially that of junior staff

• Guide client and internal subject matter expert conversations toward effective outcomes

• Develop strategies to solve complex OCM challenges for our clients

• Contribute to the development of the team’s industry acumen and capabilities through contribution to internal firm initiatives

• Lead key components of change management projects and teams to develop and implement change strategies and plans

• Conduct user-centered research to create practical approaches to increase customer awareness and adoption of change

• Lead the creation of content for stakeholder engagement regarding planned changes – what’s in it for me, why it matters, how it’s done, and the program's status

• Communicate with all levels of an organization and prepare engaging and dynamic briefings for senior executives

• Perform quality assurance reviews on all work products

• Track and report the status of change programs, including key metrics and risks

• Support the development and continuous improvement of Guidehouse change management methodologies and tools

• Participate in business development activities, such as proposals, capture, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and/or other thought leadership materials

What You Will Need:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across all levels of business, including experience writing reports and client or public-facing documents, as well as communicating complex concepts effectively through MS PowerPoint, including creating custom visuals and customization of slide masters

• Minimum of THREE (3) years of management consulting experience within the public sector

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited universit; OR SEVEN (7) years' relevant experience may be used in lieu of Bachelor's Degree

• Experience with business process redesign

• Organizational and project management skills

• Experience leading one or more tasks or work streams within a client engagement, overseeing individual contribut