Strategy Lead

We are seeking a motivated and customer-oriented professional to support our HHS client.

Location: Remote

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Provide thought-leadership and strategy to develop impactful client deliverables, including SOPs, talking points, and recommendations for workflow and process improvements.
• Leverage expertise in systems thinking to inform recommendations on changes to structures, processes, and procedures required to achieve organizational strategies and objectives.
• Collaborate with a team to establish frameworks and models for eliciting stakeholder feedback and effectively facilitate stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Maintain primary client relationships to deliver products that exceed expectations and build trust in the relationship.
• Collaborates with client leadership to set expectations for deliverables, shape work product development, and ensure quality delivery.
• Facilitate client Integrated Product Teams and stakeholder engagement events to elicit feedback and gather inputs for work product development.
• Work with clients to conduct stakeholder analysis and define project management approaches.
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements - verbally or through written documentation - to project managers, portfolio managers, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Interface with stakeholders internal and external to the federal agency to elicit feedback.
• Support senior leadership decision boards that govern the progress of efforts and address risks or issues affecting success.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience.
• 3+ years professional experience in client delivery within the federal, healthcare, or cybersecurity sectors (Nice to Have)
• Experience and/or knowledge of consulting methodologies such as change management and project management.
• Demonstrated communications management skills and communications and customer relationship management software skills.
• Competency in Microsoft applications, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Organizational and time-management skills for meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Change Management or similar Organizational Change Certification
• PMP Certification

Education Requirement: Bachelor's degree in the field of organizational development and leadership, communications, psychology, or related field required. Master's degree preferred.

Clearance Requirement: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

Why Join Gunnison?

• Gunnison takes on ambitious projects. We target fun, challenging work that requires creative thinking and innovation.
• Quality is our top priority.
• Gunnison employee benefits meet or exceed what other companies in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area offer.
• As a small firm there is a great sense of camaraderie at Gunnison. Employees are treated like family. This is an atmosphere we will maintain as we continue to grow.
• We are growing rapidly and the opportunity for individual professional growth with Gunnison is outstanding.
• We hire for careers at Gunnison, not to fill a position.

Employee Benefits

Gunnison employee benefits meet or beat other companies in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, including:

• Bonuses AND profit-sharing!
• 401k Matching
• Certifications and training allowance $2,500/year
• 3 weeks of personal leave your first year (160 hours can roll over every year)

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Must be eligible for employment in the United States. We are unable to sponsor candidates at this time

In 1994 Gunnison Consulting Group began serving the greater Washington, D.C. metro area, focused on tackling our customers' most ambitious technology projects. By creating a culture dedicated to enabling our customers and employees to achieve more than they ever thought they could, the company has thrived for over 25 years.