Senior Strategist

Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Strategist to work remotely.  

The Senior Strategist is responsible for driving initiatives that improve the alignment of the National Security business unit workforce and the practices they use, such that we continue to improve as a high-performing producer of quality IT products and services to both our federal customers and within the ECS organization. Our BU believes in the values and principles of Agile; therefore, this role is expected to support the development of a generative culture that focuses on highly collaborative teams who are close to their customers, deliver value frequently, and align strategically to our business model and current state of corporate maturity.

The daily life of a Senior Strategist is focused on engaging customer leadership at DHS HQ to support their needs and gain strategic insight into how they can continuously improve. This role will require regular contact with customer leadership across all contracts as needed, to help them with their strategic planning and to guide their expectations given their own environmental constraints. In addition to customer-facing responsibilities, this role also focuses on ECS internal strategic improvements that include (but are not limited to):

•  Business strategic goal formation and measurement

• Customer market focus and opportunities for growth

• Customer delivery performance evaluation and recommendations for improvement

• Improvements to staffing alignment on both contracts and internal operations

• Hiring and contract capture support as needed (as a SME)

• Thought leader and change agent for the culture 

Job Responsibilities:

• Ability to work independently with little supervision and accountable to established goals, as well as a team player

• Strong verbal and written communication skills including public speaking skills

•  Support and lead other change agents with complex delivery challenges

• Excellent facilitation skills

• Experience with coaching stances (advising, teaching, mentoring, role modeling, coaching)

• Knowledge and application of Agile practices (e.g., Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, LeSS, etc.), team coaching and leadership

• Lead and sustain Agile coaching circles and communities of practice

• Drive a team of coaches in larger engagements

• Strong consulting management skills

• Ability to effectively communicate with staff, management, and C-level individuals

• Excellent listening skills

• Continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction, develop and deepen long-lasting client relationships

• Applying organizational development and change models

• Applying collaboration frameworks including the ability to plan, execute, analyze, and report large scale experiences with ten or more teams

Salary: $110,000 - $145,000

General Description of Benefits

• Must be a US Citizen.

• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust.

• A Bachelors degree in a relevant field.

• 7+ years of consulting experience

• Experience developing organizational strategy

• Experience supporting federal agencies (DHS preferred).