Sustainability Research and Strategy Consultant

Guidehouse is seeking a highly skilled Sustainability Research and Strategy Consultant to join our Defense and Security Segment (D&S). As a key member of our team, you will support the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on a contract that provides strategic planning, business transformation, advanced data analytics, financial modeling, strategy, and training.

• Conduct Sustainability Analyses: Conduct evaluations or sustainability studies to help an organization simplify procedures, operate more efficiently, and improve effectiveness.
• Manage Stakeholder Communications: Manage daily communications between internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop Sustainability Strategies: Lead the implementation of a sustainability strategy framework, including workshops, to help an organization or program achieve its intended sustainability goals.
• Facilitate Stakeholder Discussions: Prepare for and lead/facilitate internal and external stakeholder discussions, client meetings, and briefings for executive leadership (including interviews and workshops) to inform sustainability policy ideation and implementation.
• Lead Workstreams and Manage Assignments: Lead workstreams and manage multiple concurrent assignments while ensuring technical accuracy, adherence to standards, and timely delivery of all products.
• Prepare Briefing Materials: Prepare a wide range of high-quality briefing materials and concise summaries of complex studies, evaluations, and data analyses to communicate program effectiveness and progress to senior leaders.
• Conduct Risk Analysis: Conduct detailed risk analysis on the implementation of different policy changes to include mapping of qualitative and quant risks, review of probability/impact/velocity, design of mitigation approaches, and integration into the organizations risk posture.
• Develop Implementation Approaches: Develop implementation approaches for proposed organizational changes, to include budget, timelines, system updates, policy/procedure updates, stakeholder outreach, communications, and training.
• Provide Technical Expertise: Serve as a technical expert on executive-level project teams, providing interpretation and insights regarding current and/or future structure and behavior of an organization's processes, systems, structure, personnel – so that they might better align with the organization's core goals and strategic direction.
• Inform Decision Making: Inform decision making through informative data visualizations, presentations, and interactive dashboards that convey key dimensions of challenges and solution approaches, using open source and commercially available visualization and dashboard applications and tools.
• Research Industry Trends: Research private sector and attend industry events to brief CBP leadership on industry trade and sustainability practices.

• US Citizenship and Public Trust Clearance: US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust.
• Bachelor's Degree: Bachelor's degree.
• 8+ Years of Experience: EIGHT (8) or more years of experience related to sustainability strategy or climate change research or supply chain or circularity analyses or green energy and/or professional office experience.

• Master's Degree: Master's degree in Sustainability, Climate Change, Green Energy, or other related field.
• 10+ Years of Experience: 10 (TEN) or more years' professional office experience; OR 5 (FIVE) years' professional office experience with a Masters degree in Sustainability, Climate Change, Green Energy, or other related field.
• Experience in Sustainability Strategy Development: Experience in sustainability strategy development.
• Experience in Supply Chain and Circular Economy: Experience in supply chain and circularity analyses.
• Experience in Conducting Sustainability Research: Experience in conducting sustainability and/or green energy, and or climate change research and analysis that has resulted in gaining a comprehensive understanding of a complex technical program, including processes, systems, training, data, and resources to identify recommendations to align with a program's goals and strategic direction.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite: Proficiency in Microsoft Suite applications.
• Experience in Leading Studies and Analyses: Experience in leading studies, analyses, assessments, and other research to address operational and/or organizational challenges resulting in.
• Ability to Provide Expert Insights: Ability to provide an expert view into exceptionally complex problems and processes.
• Experience in Performing Industry Benchmarking: Experience in performing industry benchmarking, and benchmarking against other federal government agencies' processes, policies, operations, best practices, etc.
• Excellent Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to Adapt Quickly: Ability to adapt quickly and develop successful professional relationships with key stakeholders.
• Ability to Conduct Environmental Scans: Ability to conduct environmental scans and analysis to inform strategy planning, strategic direction, and execution.
• Experience in Collaborating in a Team Environment: Experience in collaborating in a team environment to compile, collate, and integrate both qualitative and quantitative portfolio, program, project, information and data.
• Experience in Performing Basic Data Analysis: Experience in performing basic data analysis and building basic data visualizations in MS Excel.
• Ability to Apply Technical Principles: Ability to apply technical principles, theories, and knowledge of a client's mission area to enhance the deliverables associated with a particular task order.
• Experience in Providing Technical Assistance: Experience in providing technical assistance to the team in the areas of problem definition, analysis, requirements development, and implementation for complex solutions.
• Experience in Conducting Interviews: Experience conducting interviews or gathering feedback from external stakeholders.
• Proficiency in SharePoint: Proficiency in SharePoint.
• Experience Working in DHS or CBP: Experience working in DHS or CBP.
• Experience with Supply Chain and International Trade: Experience in supply chain and/or international trade.
• Experience in Federal Government Management Consulting: Experience in federal government management consulting.

• Competitive Compensation: The annual salary range for this position is $94,900.00-$142,300.00.
• Total Rewards Package: Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
• Benefits: Benefits include medical, Rx, dental & vision insurance, personal and family sick time & company paid holidays, position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus, parental leave and adoption assistance, 401(k) retirement plan, basic life & supplemental life, health savings account, dental/vision & dependent care flexible spending accounts, short-term & long-term disability, student loan paydown, tuition reimbursement, personal development & learning opportunities, skills development & certifications, employee referral program, corporate sponsored events & community outreach, emergency back-up childcare program, and mobility stipend.