Consultant

at  Rockwood Company

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Active Top Secret (preferred) or Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree
• 2-5 years of experience with federal consulting with exposure to organizational management, strategic planning and execution, communications, change management, and facilitation
• Willingness to commute to client locations as needed, in and around the DC Metro area; occasional travel outside of the DC area
• Experience working with senior executives
• Ability to build strong working relationships and work diplomatically with others in various roles and levels
• Ability to manage multiple competing tasks, prioritize as necessary, and deliver high-quality products, sometimes under tight deadlines
• Ability to execute administrative tasks, including tracking and organizing actions and facilitating meetings to support program productivity and effectiveness
• Strong verbal and written communications skills to organize information into well-written clear messages and compelling documents
• Ability to develop presentations and work products in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
• Ability to collaboratively brainstorm and work with clients and Rockwood team while also having the ability to work independently from a home office, client site, and Rockwood office as required

• Support client project tasks from initiation to completion; help track timelines, capture status updates, lead knowledge capture, facilitate and contribute to client and team discussions, and help create frameworks that support desirable solutions
• Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data (through research, interviews, surveys, observation, etc.)
• Develop standard operating processes and procedures and assist with the development of workflows to capture the current state of the client mission and recommend best practice alternatives for a future state
• Identify and document key insights from client interactions and data collection to propose changes for organizational improvement
• Facilitate client discussions, lead stakeholder interviews and brief client deliverables
• Integrate information from Directorates and Divisions throughout the organization to facilitate easy access, sharing, and dissemination of information with internal business partners and external clients.
• Contribute to the development of strategic communications and campaign efforts
• Provide event planning support for interactive conferences, strategy meetings, working group sessions or other events; this may include helping to design the event, coordinating event logistics, facilitating discussions, and capturing knowledge (live) during the event to ensure people who never attended understand the big takeaways
• Build lasting relationships with clients while helping them dissect and solve problems
• Lead and support stakeholder interviews and other stakeholder engagement activities
• Provide project management support (to include managing resource-planning spreadsheets, working with senior-level consultants to refine project plans, performing quality control reviews on client deliverables, and drafting and submitting status reports to clients