Senior consultant

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.

• 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 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. If that’s the kind of work you’re looking for, you’ve found your team. Learn more at cherokee-federal.com.

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Cherokee Federal is a military friendly employer. Veterans and active military transitioning to civilian status are encouraged to apply.

Legal Disclaimer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability or any other status protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

Many of our job openings require access to government buildings or military installations. Candidates must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

For applicants located in Colorado, New York, California, Washington, Illinois, Hawaii, Massachusetts, or other states with pay transparency requirements: the estimated annual salary range for this position is $120,000 – $140,000. Actual compensation varies based on qualifications, experience, and location.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Cherokee Federal is a federal contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA). As required by VEVRAA, we take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans. Protected veterans are encouraged to self-identify during the application process.

Cherokee Federal takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Qualified individuals with disabilities are encouraged to self-identify during the application process.

Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities or those with sincerely held religious beliefs. To request an accommodation in the application or interview process, please contact Human Resources at careers@cherokee-federal.com.