[Hiring] Senior Consultant @Cherokee Federal

Role Description

The Senior Consultant leads complex analytical and delivery work across Federal transformation engagements. This person frames problems, designs the work approach, facilitates stakeholders, integrates evidence, develops recommendations, and owns client-ready deliverables. Senior Consultants bring depth in one or more capability areas while remaining adaptable across requirements, acquisition, data, process, governance, change, performance, and delivery assignments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience; advanced degree or relevant certification welcomed.
• Typically 6–10 years of progressively responsible consulting, Federal delivery, analysis, transformation, acquisition, data, process, change, or program experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex deliverables, stakeholder sessions, analyses, and recommendations.
• Strong facilitation, analytical writing, executive communication, problem structuring, and quality-review skills.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, balance multiple priorities, and make sound recommendations using incomplete information.
• Experience coaching or coordinating junior team members and collaborating across functional disciplines.
• Five non-negotiable consulting competencies:
• Ownership and Bias for Action: Anticipates what the workstream needs and resolves obstacles.
• Learning Agility and Curiosity: Transfers expertise across domains and improves the method as evidence develops.
• Team-First Collaboration: Coaches others, shares context, and integrates perspectives without ego.
• Resilience and Positive Energy: Keeps teams focused and constructive through ambiguity and client pressure.
• Trustworthiness and Commitment: Surfaces risks early and delivers what was promised.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer; may occasionally require standing or moving about the office for extended periods.
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

Requirements

• Requirements development and management, business analysis, traceability, capability analysis, or systems analysis.
• Data inventory, normalization, quality, analysis, visualization, dashboard design, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, SQL, or related tools.
• Organizational change, stakeholder engagement, communications, facilitation, training, roadshows, or adoption measurement.
• Program or project management, integrated scheduling, risk and dependency management, quality assurance, PWS development, or executive reporting.
• DHS, CISA, cybersecurity, or another complex Federal mission environment; ability to obtain and maintain required suitability and access.
• Federal acquisition, contracting, procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or contract-portfolio analysis.
• Experience leading complex change for Federal programs.
• Enterprise process improvement, operating-model design, governance, decision rights, performance measurement, or Lean Six Sigma.
• Experience with process optimization a big plus.

Benefits

• Starting Salary Range for Senior Consultant: $120,000 – $140,000
• Up to a 6% 401(k) company match to help you build long-term financial security.
• Paid time off as part of our comprehensive benefits package, so you have the flexibility to rest, recharge, and enjoy what matters most.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus prescription drug coverage.
• Basic life and AD&D insurance, with supplemental life options.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid holidays.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options.
• Professional development, training, and certification support.
• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, and identity theft protection.
• Benefits are subject to change and eligibility requirements apply.

Company Description

Behind every government mission stands skilled, mission-driven talent: people whose expertise and dedication turn complex challenges into successful outcomes. Cherokee Nation Solutions Link, part of Cherokee Federal, the federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, is that team. We modernize aging systems, deliver care where it’s needed most, and keep missions supplied, staffed, and moving across defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies. For more than 60 federal clients, we take on the work others won’t, and deliver where it counts.