Senior Management Consulting Associate

Senior Management Consulting Associate

OCT Consulting LLC is a boutique management and strategy consulting company that provides support to Federal Government clients. We provide consulting services in the areas of Strategy, Process Improvement, Change Management, Program and Project Management, Acquisition/Procurement, and Information Technology.

Responsibilities and Duties

OCT Consulting has grown significantly within the last 3 years and continues to grow. We are looking to bring onboard an intelligent, intellectually curious, organized, diligent, and detail-oriented Management Consulting Analyst or Associate to support a government client’s efforts to reorganize their workforce of over 500 FTEs around Category Management principles. You will be responsible for updating relevant policies relating to the reorganization, creating document review matrices, and ensuring that new processes are properly documented, including business process mapping. You will also be responsible for providing the client guidance around operations and communications. You will advise the client on how to communicate business process changes to the organization and lead an education and training campaign to socialize new policies and procedures. You will facilitate trainings and briefings, as needed, to support these education and training efforts.

Responsibilities and duties include:

• Leading analyses and offering guidance to the government client around operations, business process redesign, communications, and training
• Writing and updating the organization’s policies related to the reorganization efforts
• Documenting new and updated business processes, including document review matrices
• Communicating business process changes to the client’s workforce of over 500 FTEs through education and training campaigns
• Lead the development of various presentations, briefing materials, plans, and infographics using Excel, Google, and MS PowerPoint
• Supporting executive-level meeting facilitation and scheduling, and facilitating new and recurring meetings to build consensus, gain approval on key decisions, and conduct research
• Conduct one-on-one, small group, and focus group interviews to solicit stakeholder feedback
• Draft, finalize, and distribute meeting minutes
• Conduct self-directed research and analysis, produce reports and presentations, and proactively develop workplans
• Perform other administrative and management (e.g., conducting stakeholder briefings and feedback sessions) duties, as assigned
• Mentor and guide more junior members of the team

• Note that this is an excellent opportunity to work with a small team of management consultants working closely with high-level government executives to build a new governance process for an agency

Requirements

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of ten (10) years of work experience providing project and program support within the Department of State, DoD, or other Federal agencies

• Prior experience leading whole workstreams from end-to-end and operating independently with minimal direct day-to-day oversight

• Previous management consulting (or similar) experience is highly desired (whether within the public or private sector; either is desirable)

• Background conducting strategy work in a client-facing role is highly desired

• Experience providing technical writing support to a Federal government program office

• Experience in policy writing for a Federal agency

• Background in Category Management (Preferred)

• Background supporting reorganization efforts for a Federal agency (Preferred)

• Excellent organizational and detail-oriented working style; you should be capable of creating executive-level materials with almost zero oversight

• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in support of senior government stakeholders

• Proficiency in Microsoft suite of programs, as well as Google tools to manage Shared files

• Ability to manage competing priorities and multiple taskings, and work in a fast-paced working environment

• Openness to feedback and continuous self-improvement; self-awareness to understand the areas where you excel and those which will require further development

• Highly intellectually curious and resourceful when approaching problems and determining solutions

• Top-notch organizational skills
• Willingness to perform a broad range of tasks that include everything from high-level strategy creation to administrative duties

• Experience with staff work within the Federal government space