USAF Consulting Director

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