USAF Consulting Director
Location: Oklahoma City, OK, US
Job ID: ATR 18134
Job Description
Job Title: USAF Consulting Director
Job Location: Multiple Locations w/ Travel
Compensation: $200,000 - $240,000
Eligibility/Clearance: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI clearance
and be willing to obtain a CI Polygraph
Job Description:
- *Travel throughout the United States. Travel ebbs and flows, there
can be weeks of no travel and up to being on-site 3-4 days per week.
Consulting Directors typically travel to a centralized region when
on contract rather than new sites weekly. Current needs are include,
but not limited to:
- Ft. Meade, Maryland
- Ft Belvoir, VA
- Fayetteville, NC
- Pentagon - Arlington, VA
- Wright Patterson AFB - Dayton, OH
- Tinkers AFB - Oklahoma City, OK
- Space Force - Colorado Springs, CO
- DoW Practice Overview:
- Our client’s rapidly growing Department of War portfolio supports
defense leaders in achieving mission-critical outcomes for our
nation. Our teams work across the Navy, Air Force, Defense Logistics
Agency, and other DoW organizations to address complex challenges in
acquisition, industrial-base resilience, emerging technology,
workforce, and organizational transformation. We bring together deep
mission expertise and rigorous consulting capabilities to translate
strategic priorities into practical, measurable results. This is an
exciting time to join our client’s DoW practice: team members can
contribute across high-priority engagements, build trusted
relationships with senior defense leaders, and help shape the
capabilities, offerings, and client partnerships that will define
the portfolio’s next stage of growth. We are looking for adaptable,
entrepreneurial leaders who thrive in new and ambiguous environments
and want to help expand our client’s impact across the defense
mission.
- Position Overview
- The Engagement Lead (Director) is a senior, accountable leader for a
complex Department of War client engagement. This consulting
leadership role requires the ability to independently navigate
ambiguous client situations, become a trusted adviser to senior
leaders, identify how our client can best support client needs, and
translate strategy into disciplined execution and executive-quality
deliverables. The Engagement Lead owns consulting rigor across the
integrated workplan, team performance, quality, partner
coordination, and account growth.
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- The role begins as a hands-on individual contributor or lean-team
leader. In addition to defining the vision and overall strategy for
assigned projects, the successful candidate must be comfortable
personally structuring analyses, building and editing PowerPoint and
Excel deliverables, running client meetings, and resolving
day-to-day delivery issues without relying on a large support team.
The Engagement Lead works in close partnership with another
Engagement Lead who brings deep government experience, combining
consulting expertise and delivery discipline with established client
relationships, institutional knowledge, and subject-matter
expertise.
- Key Responsibilities
- Client leadership and trusted advisory
- Co-lead the engagement with a government mission leader, combining
consulting discipline with established client relationships,
institutional knowledge, and subject-matter expertise.
- Serve as a senior day-to-day interface with client leadership;
anticipate needs, read stakeholder dynamics, and build credibility
through sound judgment, responsiveness, and follow-through.
- Frame ambiguous problems, develop clear points of view, and provide
strategic ideas and practical recommendations that reflect the
client mission, operating context, and implementation realities.
- Design and lead executive meetings, working sessions, decision
forums, and difficult conversations with concise messaging and
confident facilitation.
- Operate independently in sensitive client situations, escalating
selectively and bringing proposed solutions rather than unresolved
problems.
- Consulting delivery and quality
- Own the engagement from problem definition through implementation,
including scope, hypotheses, workplan, milestones, dependencies,
decisions, and outcomes.
- Translate analysis into a clear story line and personally develop,
review, and refine polished PowerPoint presentations, Excel
analyses, written products, and executive briefings.
- Set a high quality bar for accuracy, logic, visual presentation,
attention to detail, and readiness for senior-client review; ensure
deliverables require minimal executive rework.
- Maintain rigorous program management, including action and decision
tracking, risk management, meeting cadence, staffing, budget, and
timely resolution of issues.
- Coach contributors through precise direction, rapid feedback, and
quality review while remaining accountable for the integrated
product.
- Partner and work lane leadership
- Define and negotiate clear work-lane scope, roles, interfaces, and
decision rights with prime contractors, subcontractors, and other
consulting partners.
- Identify where we can contribute distinctive value based on its AI,
acquisition, organizational transformation, implementation, and
government-domain expertise.
- Manage handoffs and interdependencies so the client experiences one
coherent team without losing visibility into our contributions.
- Account growth and market development
- Identify and shape follow-on opportunities by translating unmet
client needs and adjacent mission priorities into clear problems,
outcomes, approaches, stakeholders, acquisition paths, and next
steps.
- Build direct, durable relationships across the client organization,
expanding the firm’s network beyond the immediate engagement and
partner-led channels.
- Partner with growth and capture leaders to advance on-contract
growth, proposals, recompetes, account strategies, and reusable
offerings that strengthen our position in the market.
- Commercial and operational stewardship
- Manage contract performance, staffing, utilization, budget, burn,
margin, subcontractor performance, and reporting with timely,
accurate data.
- Identify delivery, relationship, financial, and contractual risks
early; implement corrective actions and elevate decisions with clear
options and recommendations.
- Minimum Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience, including substantial
experience in management consulting, strategy consulting,
transformation consulting, or a comparable client-services
environment.
- 5+ years leading consulting engagements or major workstreams with
direct accountability for senior-client relationships, integrated
delivery, team performance, and executive-level outputs.
- DoW Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain Top Secret / SCI
(SAP Access)
- Demonstrated record of independently navigating complex client
environments and becoming a trusted adviser to senior executives.
- Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, including the ability to
personally structure analyses, build executive-ready story lines,
and improve others’ work to a high consulting standard.
- Exceptional verbal communication and executive presence; able to
communicate a crisp point of view, facilitate decisions, and adapt
in the room.
- Strong program management and attention to detail across scope,
schedule, quality, resources, risks, decisions, and follow-through.
- Experience identifying, shaping, and advancing follow-on work from
existing client relationships.
- Experience working across organizational boundaries and negotiating
roles and work scope with partners, subcontractors, or peer
consulting firms.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the clearance and client-site access
required for assigned engagements.
- Willingness and ability to travel to client sites three to four days
per week.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Department of War or other federal clients in
acquisition, industrial base, logistics, readiness, organizational
transformation, workforce, technology, or related mission areas.
- Experience in a top-tier strategy or management consulting firm, or
a consulting environment with comparable standards for client
leadership, analytics, and executive communications.
- Experience building a new account, capability, offering, or market
area.
- Master’s degree or other relevant advanced degree.
- Familiarity with AI/ML, RPA, intelligent automation, or digital
transformation programs in a federal context
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ATR is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) who will provide equal
employment opportunity to employees and applicants for employment
without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex, pregnancy,
national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, marital status, family structure, genetic
information, or mental or physical disability
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