Consulting Director

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Fairfax, VA

Administrative or Professional Faculty

Opening on:
Oct 8 2026

Closing at:
Oct 14 2026 - 23:55 EDT

Department: Executive Administration

Classification: Administrative Faculty

Job Category: Administrative or Professional Faculty

Job Type: Full-Time

Work Schedule: Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk)

Location: Fairfax, VA

Workplace Type: Hybrid Eligible

Sponsorship Eligibility: Not eligible for visa sponsorship

Salary: Salary range $170,000 - $195,000, commensurate with education and experience

Criminal Background Check: Yes

University Business Consulting (UBC), part of George Mason University's Executive Administration Division, provides internal consulting services to support innovation, operational effectiveness, and strategic alignment across George Mason schools and administrative units. UBC partners with campus leaders to enhance efficiency, strengthen organizational performance, and advance the university's long term strategic objectives.

Reporting to the Executive Director of UBC, the Consulting Director independently leads large projects and programs that directly support the goals of George Mason University (GMU) and the UBC Office. The purpose of this Consulting Director role is to serve as the main UBC representative for certain GMU units, lead and implement projects focused on strategic planning implementation, budget and fiscal transformation, organizational assessments, stakeholder facilitation, implementing new initiatives, and/or conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis on business functions at the university.

The Consulting Director is responsible for running strategic and high-visibility university projects from start to finish with little supervision required and helping UBC leadership present a positive image of UBC to the George Mason community. The Consulting Director will also supervise and mentor other consulting staff.

• Responsible for setting goals for performance and deadlines in ways that comply with the university's plans and vision and communicate them for at least 3 direct reports;
• Organizes workflow and ensuring that employees understand their duties or delegated tasks;
• Monitors employee productivity and providing constructive feedback and coaching;
• Receives complaints and resolving problems;
• Maintains timekeeping and personnel records;
• Passes on information from upper management to employees and vice versa;
• Prepares and submits performance evaluations;
• Decides on rewards and promotions based on performance;
• Hires and trains new employees; ensuring adherence to legal and university policies and procedures and undertaking disciplinary actions if the need arises; and
• Responsible for overseeing the UBC internship program, including hiring, training, and assigning intern projects.

• Leads project work directly with university senior leaders across various departments focused on major strategic initiatives impacting large stakeholder groups;
• Manages UBC senior consultants, consultants, and other staff on projects. Is responsible for overall high-quality performance in assigned UBC projects;
• Drives the development of project work plans and goals;
• The Director uses expertise and best practices to help assess how alternatives will impact business processes and develops communications plans, training, change management strategies, and resource planning amongst other tasks;
• Leads development (mostly direct, also through supervision) of thoughtful, detail-oriented and high-quality qualitative and quantitative analyses to include in written documents, flow charts and/or spreadsheets;
• Reviews, edits, and prepares documents for clients and UBC working groups, project meetings, and leadership meetings.;
• Consistently ensures excellent, high-quality outcomes for all projects. Expected to consistently develop insightful, robust, and information driven solutions to complex problems;
• Applies and consistently provides opportunities for improvements on agreed-upon project management approaches to UBC projects;
• Develops and maintains project charters, work plans, schedules, and budgets, guiding various working teams in project management, process mapping and best practices in automation, change management and process review;
• Provides thought leadership and strategic insight to further each project with a view of the impact on the unit/department/university;
• Takes…