Senior Consultant

POSITION INSTRUCTIONS

THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON TASK ORDER AWARD

THIS IS A PART-TIME POSITION

Compass is looking for a motivated individual to provide operational services to the United States Coast Guard. Our goal is to hire talented and passionate team members who desire to grow their skill sets, as well as the reputation of the company with our partners, clients, and stakeholders. We are looking for an individual to join an innovative team supporting mission critical/mission essential activities.

Professional IT certification training opportunities and assistance are available through Compass.

Clearance: DHS Suitability

Location:

Washington, D.C.

Guides executive-level initiatives; applies advanced project-management, business process, and re-engineering expertise; reviews deliverables and provides executive coaching.

• Plan/scope/execute change-management initiatives across mission-support portfolios.
• Select and apply change-management strategies, communication methods, and repeatable processes to support adoption of new policies, systems, and procedures.
• Develop, maintain, and update Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) reflecting dependencies, milestones, risks, and resource needs.
• Design and implement full-spectrum communications programs tailored to senior leaders, civilian staff, military personnel, and stakeholders.
• Produce strategic communication products (executive briefings, presentations, brochures, fact sheets, playbooks, and web-ready video content).
• Support project identification, prioritization, portfolio development, execution tracking, and benefits/ROI analysis.
• Facilitate project chartering, stakeholder engagement, risk/issue management, close-out activities, and lessons-learned documentation.

• Support development, maintenance, and updates of the PSC Strategic Plan aligned with higher-level DHS/USCG directives.
• Conduct environmental scans, analysis of alternatives, strategic alignment assessments.
• Facilitate senior-level strategy sessions, workshops, and decision forums.
• Develop performance metrics, dashboards, and monitoring tools to track progress and inform leadership decisions.
• Assist sub-commands in translating enterprise goals into measurable objectives and performance indicators.

• Conduct business-case analyses, alternatives analyses, and organizational performance assessments.
• Apply business-process improvement tools (e.g., Lean Six Sigma, process mapping, metrics reviews).
• Capture, analyze, document current-state processes and recommend performance improvements.
• Design and implement performance-measurement and reporting frameworks at program and enterprise levels.
• Support cost estimating, performance analysis, and Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs).

• Support initiation, execution, management, and evaluation of performance-management programs.
• Provide expert assistance in process improvement, performance measurement, and organizational effectiveness.
• Maintain and enhance performance-management methodologies and practices.
• Transfer knowledge and skills to government personnel for long-term sustainment.

• Provide governance, planning, and analytical support for PSC initiatives and leadership decision-making.
• Modernize and sustain PSC Microsoft Access-based tools, including:
• Data architecture modeling and optimization
• Workflow and process analysis
• SQL/VBA development and maintenance
• Data analytics, dashboards, and reporting
• Risk and issue management
• Deployment support and user assistance
• Ensure systems are scalable, interoperable, and compliant with USCG standards.

• Plan, schedule, facilitate workshops, working groups, meetings (in-person and virtual).
• Coordinate logistics, calendars, venues, and collaboration tools (VTC, MS Teams).
• Develop agendas, read-ahead materials, presentations, and meeting artifacts.
• Capture meeting…