Senior Consultant

About this role

Position Summary:
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.
Compensation & Benefits:
Starting Salary Range for Senior Consultant: $120,000 – $140,000
Benefits That Set Us Apart
When considering your next opportunity, compensation is only part of the picture. We offer a benefits package designed to invest in your future and support your life outside of work.
Highlights include:

• 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

Because taking care of our employees isn’t just a promise, it’s part of who we are.
Benefits are subject to change and eligibility requirements apply.
Essential Functions, Duties & Responsibilities:
Includes the following:

• Own complex work packages or major deliverable components from planning through client acceptance.

• Translate ambiguous client questions into structured analyses, workplans, evidence needs, and decision points.

• Plan and lead interviews, workshops, validation sessions, process reviews, and working meetings.

• Analyze competing evidence, identify gaps and tradeoffs, and develop defensible findings and recommendations.

• Create or tailor methods, templates, taxonomies, analytical criteria, quality checks, and performance measures.

• Coordinate dependencies across mission, acquisition, financial, technology, data, and organizational stakeholders.

• Draft and brief client-ready reports, roadmaps, dashboards, governance products, implementation plans, or executive decision materials.

• Review and improve team work products; coach Consultants in analysis, writing, facilitation, and consulting judgment.

• Manage risks, assumptions, decisions, and scope within the assigned work; escalate material issues promptly.

• Develop capability across adjacent disciplines so the practice can redeploy talent as mission needs change.

• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
No supervisory/management authority
Basic 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

Work Environment:
Work is performed primarily in a climate-controlled environment.
Company Information:
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…