Senior Defense Consultant, Department of Defense

You understand the power of great service experience and its ability to inspire customer behavior. You have a keen understanding of what it takes to deliver exceptional services, both in front of the house and behind the scenes.  But most of all, you see all of this in the context of furthering our clients’ core mission or business. The issues to be resolved are often difficult to define and quantify; may involve complex, traditionally competing interests; are often characterized by senior leadership interest and visibility, and require extensive probing and analysis. 

The Office for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics (DASD(Log)) is responsible for defining and implementing policies and programs that support effective integration of contracted capabilities into operations. To define these new policy areas and make them implementable by the warfighter, we must develop policy and guidance as well as connect with operational force leaders and planners to ensure they have the tools to execute. The Defense Management Analyst will support a team of government and contractor SMEs by helping define paths to institutionalize policies and other capabilities, coaching junior staff members to prepare presentations, memos, congressional reports, and other deliverables, and support coordination of working groups to support these goals. 

Responsible for: 

• Providing thought leadership on how to take ideas for policy development and implementation and make them authoritative or actionable based on their understanding of OSD administrative processes 
• Ensure execution of complex tasks by coordinating and tasking junior staff 
• Advising staff on appropriate structure for various deliverables to convey the right information and recommendations to various audiences, including operationally focused stakeholders and OSD stakeholders, and ranging from action officers to very senior leaders 
• Reviewing work produced by junior staff and ensuring sufficient quality 
• Coaching junior staff to improve their understanding of departmental processes and help them evolve as professionals
• Being a focal point for GS-15/NH-04 level client to communicate status of tasks and collaborate on execution of more complex tasks
• Developing excellent working relationships with ODASD(Log) client(s) as well as stakeholders throughout OSD, the CCMDs, and Agencies to achieve cross-functional policy implementation
• Approachesing every day with a ‘we’ mindset and willingness to collaborate with and learn from teammates.
• Independently managing time to complete assigned tasks or entire lines of effort as part of the larger client engagement.
• Being a strong critical thinker who sees the big picture while staying delivery-driven. 

Candidate should have the ability to: 

• Independently develop and follow a project plan 
• Create client-ready deliverables from conception to presentation 
• Manage staff towards completion of activities ensuring on-time delivery of artifacts
• Coordinate with project leadership on direction and progress of project activities
• Work in a team environment, being open to others ideas and working collaboratively to produce well-rounded solutions/deliverables
• Effectively lead team meetings
• Be flexible as project scope evolves
• Communicate succinctly both verbally and in writing 

Candidate should have experience: 

• Working with clients in a consulting capacity 
• Presenting to and communicating with executive leadership 

• Leads lines of effort and projects that deliver client outcomes.
• Builds rapport with the client by seeing assigned tasks in the context of broader strategic goals, anticipating risks, and supporting decisions through the development and delivery of high-quality deliverables.
• Leads entire teams to plan task timelines and directs the allocation of staff support to complete tasks.
• Mentors and supports the development of team members.
• Takes advantage of learning opportunities beyond client-based role or roles and connects them to existing knowledge.
• Shares knowledge with internal and external peers through writing and speaking 4-6 times per year.
• Builds organizational capability by building reusable process assets, templates, and tools that improve the consistency of our services.
• Supports federal business development pursuits by actively researching customer needs, recognizing opportunities and assessing the competitive environment to determine optimal approach and solutions.
• Maintains a professional demeanor that is consistent with Technical Assent core values at all times.
• Approaches every day with a ‘we’ mindset and willingness to collaborate. You are a natural team player who is comfortable working on multi-disciplinary teams, which may include designers, engineers, developers, business strategists, etc.
• Strong critical thinker capable of seeing the big picture and are delivery driven.
• Reviews teamwork products and contractual deliverables for quality.
• Identifies additional client needs beyond the current scope of work. 

•  This position requires working in office (in Virginia or Washington D.C.) 2-4 times a week, with 10-20% annual travel anticipated. 

• Bachelor's degree 
• 87-10 years of experience as a staff officer or action officer in the Department of Defense or a similarly complex federal agency 
• Understanding of administrative processes for reviewing, coordinating, and staffing packages in OSD or its equivalent in a complex federal agency; for example – staffing policy packages, congressional reports, sign-off of GAO reports, decision memorandums, or capability statements 
• Experience in managing teams to execute a senior leader’s vision 
• Experience and interest in establishing customer-service oriented support as a team leader
• Curious, problem solving, and open-minded approach to work
• Thrive in a continuous Build-Measure-Learn cycle
• Engage with technology -- with comfort and ease (Power Point, Word, Excel, Teams, Monday, Slack, Mural, etc.) 
• Excellent verbal, visual, and written communication skills
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
• Resides in the DMV area (Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia) 

• Active DoD Secret or higher security clearance  
• Knowledge of Department of Defense management and staffing processes 
• Experience working as a staff member or action officer in OSD 

Technical Assent is passionate about services –in government, business, and not-for-profit. We design exceptional service experiences, engineer them to be robust, and deliver real capability and business outcomes for our clients. You will be working on government programs that have strategic importance to our client. Your team will work IN and ON the client’s core mission –helping them to deliver their services day-to-day while simultaneously looking for opportunities to improve. Our work is Driven by Evidence, Grounded in Understanding, and Focused on Impact. 

We look for these attributes in our teammates. 

• Our team combines the creative and the pragmatic to deliver the results that matter most to our clients. We see beauty when art and science come together. 
• We seek self-starters, people who are confident in tackling challenges independently and bringing this to high-performing teams. We continually seek feedback from our customers and employees, looking for opportunities to grow. 
• We are a small company which gives you an essential voice in shaping our culture. You will help grow our culture, and you will grow from the experience, too. 

You will be part of a team to take an improvement concept and transform it into a capability –an asset that provides measurable value to our client’s mission. The team will work with users, prototype, develop, and deliver new capabilities. We hold ourselves accountable to impacting outcomes.