Principal Consultant
A Principal Consultant is a senior-level resource who oversees multiple projects or a client engagement. They act as trusted advisors to engagement clients and are directly responsible for meeting project milestones and achieving delivery success. The Principal Consultant demonstrates exceptional consulting, technical and leadership skills and abilities. They will operate as either a Subject Matter Expert (SME), and Engagement/Product Leader with management responsibilities, or as both. Principal Consultants are expected to directly and routinely contribute to business growth initiatives.
Role Type: Subject Matter Expert OR Engagement/Product Leader
Experience Level:
- BA/BS: 10+ years
- Masters: 8+ years
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Level Expectations
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Adaptability
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- Adapts to continuous, significant, sudden or permanent changes or setbacks affecting numerous programs or priorities
- Makes immediate adjustments in situations where conditions change frequently
- Takes immediate action based upon client requests, or as dictated by political, environmental, or legal considerations
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Client Focused
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- Anticipates and assesses clients' needs and tailors products and/or services to meet their needs
- Provides technical or complex information about products and services
- Ensures that all problems, questions, or complaints are resolved, including technical or complex issues
- Makes clients and their needs a primary focus of the organization's actions
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Communication
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- Communicates or defends complex information clearly and adapts to teh audience
- Writes and publishes articles in professional, industry, or scientific journals to communicate program direction and content
- Composes complex correspondence or other written work that is controversial, politically sensitive, and persuasive in nature
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Delivery
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- A recognized authority for developing and applying advanced principles, theories, and concepts
- Provides thought leadership to enhance RG offerings
- Independently plans and manages multiple projects with unique complexity
- Identifies and addresses areas of weakness that may affect organizational performance
- Takes full responsibility for results (personal and team)
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Problem Solving
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- Identifies areas of risk and generates alternatives to safeguard or to minimize organizational risks
- Draws on experience, lessons learned, and best practices to solve problems
- Empowers/facilitates problem solving techniques and actions from the team
- Implements corrective action plans
- Validates the results of the solution applied to problems solved
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RG Focused
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- Collaborates with RG to develop and implement business growth strategies
- Actively promotes RG capabilities to the external community
- Participates/speaks at public events (trade shows, various industry and client)
- Actively participates in the proposal development process and works to create effective win strategies
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