Associate Consultant

Founded in 2019, Vericol has built on its founder's expertise andmarket familiarity to build a diverse business in the government contracting industry. Vericol's founder and CEO has held suchroles as Chief Growth Officer and Chief Data Scientist for IT contractors serving the federal government. Vericol's business isin three areas, as described below.

Vericol provides consulting services to government contractors tohelp them win work with the federal government. This includes organizational design, process improvement, and policy development. Vericol also helps companies with strategic salesefforts on particular contract opportunities, including market research, solution architecture, and proposal writing.

Vericol offers data architecture and data strategy consulting for commercial companies and government customers. Vericol's work includes data reconciliation of enrollment data discrepancies between the federal government and insurance companies that participate in the Affordable Care Act/Healthcare.gov. Vericolalso works directly with commercial clients to identify opportunities to extract hidden value from their operational and transactional data.

Vericol is developing a suite of software tools for government contractors, beginning with a sales pipeline management application and a staffing assignment system. Vericol has Bet aversions of both applications.

Vericol is based in Arlington, Virginia, but at least initially,this position is 100% remote. A couple of caveats: this will beone of Vericol's first dozen employees. That means it won't be a"normal" onboarding for the successful applicant, and there will likely be some things to figure out together along the way. Whilethis won't be the company's first Associate Consultant, this willbe the first person in this specific role.

This kind of experience may not be for everybody, but for some people, itcould be exciting.

Work with clients and internal teams to understand how business processes support organizational goals. Support marketing, sales,organizational improvement, and strategic planning efforts through analysis, documentation, and communication of findings and recommendations. Write and edit various content for internal,client, or marketing purposes. Provide administrative support tothe CEO and Principal Consultants. Responsibilities may include:

• Work directly with clients and other stakeholders to understand the organizational goals, business functions and systems, and individual roles and responsibilities
• Perform general market research and analysis for client projects and internal initiatives
• Develop written documents and graphical presentations to explain findings and support decision-making
• Work with others to gather, contextualize, document, and analyze data
• Build data visualization tools, including infographics and charts
• Perform application testing and analysis for product development efforts
• Assist with product implementation projects, working directly with client stakeholders
• Develop marketing and communications plans, and then execute those plans
• Perform graphic design and desktop publishing
• Participate in client meetings, taking meeting minutes, communicating follow-up actions
• Assist company leaders with administrative tasks, including calendar management, travel and expense support, and general correspondence

• Required: Intellectual curiosity; analytical and problem-solving skills
• Required: Courage and humility: willingness to learn by asking dumb questions
• Required: Ability to form relationships of trust to achieve long-term goals
• Required: Leadership ability, including situational leadership of informal teams to accomplish a complex, short-term set of tasks
• Required: Proficiency with PowerPoint, Word, Excel or similar
• Required: Basic understanding of marketing or business management
• Required: Exceptional writing skills
• Required: Flexibility to perform administrative tasks along with more academic tasks
• Desired: Basic understanding of business operations
• Desired: Experience with Microsoft Outlook
• Bonus: Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite

• Required: Bachelor's Degree
• Desired: Coursework involving persuasive writing, group projects, and spoken presentations/public speaking