Senior Consultant – Active Top Secret Clearance Required

Senior Consultants at The Clearing lead small to medium-sized projects, serving as the main engine for delivery to drive client outcomes and satisfaction, and team effectiveness. Senior Consultants demonstrate strong financial management, ensuring their project(s) meet or exceed financial targets, and identify risks and recommend mitigation strategies. They cultivate team members by modeling the “TC Way,” demonstrating our company’s core consulting approaches, mindsets, and behaviors, and providing both positive reinforcement and assessments of growth opportunities. Senior Consultants ensure the quality of client work meets or exceeds the customer’s expectations. They demonstrate effective client relationship management, listening for and responding to buying signals to deepen the impact of their clients and drive project and/or account growth.

What You’ll Do

• Lead/manage small to medium-sized projects, serving as the main engine for delivery to drive client outcomes and satisfaction
• Ensure quality of work; manage client expectations and oversee client status updates, client requirements, deliverables management, budget performance, and prompt and accurate issue resolution
• Manage project financials for multiple small or medium projects, or a large complex project, to include time and expense reporting, invoicing, task planning, and status reporting
• Develop high-quality client-facing deliverables
• Facilitate moderately complex client meetings to achieve desired client/project outcomes
• Develop trusted professional relationships with clients; advise clients using proven methods and experience
• Contribute to advanced/complex proposal development efforts, including writing complete sections; acting as proposal coordinator for large efforts, or leading smaller proposal efforts
• Support and/or lead research, data gathering, and analysis to inform the development of client recommendations and solutions; synthesize and present results clearly
• Navigate contracting options within the client environment and partner with Project/Account leadership and other company leaders to get an engagement contractually closed
• Pursue and secure follow-on or plus-up project work, including managing the capture, proposal, and contract process
• Support the professional training and development of junior team members
• Develop thought leadership materials (internal and external)

• Active (or within two years) DoD Top Secret Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree
• 6+ years of professional work experience, preferably in management consulting or another professional service or client-facing environment
• Willingness and ability to travel to client sites in the surrounding DC and Baltimore metro areas; occasional travel outside of these regions could be expected (5%)
• Critical thinking/problem-solving skills, attention to detail, organization, and time-management skills
• Strong business writing and verbal communication skills; strategic communication skills are highly desired
• Flexible and adaptable mindset to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced, high-stakes client environments
• Must be legally eligible to work in the United States, now and in the future, without the need for company (The Clearing) visa sponsorship now or in the future
• Desired skills, experiences, and certifications: change management, strategic planning, program management, people management, and/or organizational design experience; PMP and/or Change Management certification (ex.: Prosci)

Compensation

The projected salary range for this position is between $87,360 and $131,040 annually. Actual compensation and starting salaries are determined based on various factors, including the education, experience, knowledge, skills, certifications, and clearance level of the candidate and internal equity. Once at The Clearing, movement through pay bands is based on performance. Base-annual salary is just one component of The Clearing’s total compensation philosophy and approach. Employees are eligible to participate in The Clearing’s robust benefits programs, including our incentive compensation (bonus) programs. Please refer to our Careers Page online for a complete list of benefits.

Physical and Mental Requirements

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel (sometimes extensively); occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand; communicate effectively (both orally and in writing); ability to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment; and occasionally exerting up to 10 pounds to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Work is primarily sedentary and involves sitting for several hours at a time. Occasionally walking, climbing stairs, and standing occur in this role. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgment, withstand moderate amounts of stress, and maintain attention to detail. The Clearing is committed to partnering with all candidates and employees to ensure reasonable accommodations are made to meet these requirements.

EEO

The Clearing is committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors. In addition to federal legal requirements, The Clearing complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. These protections extend to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting and hiring practices, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training and career development programs.