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Guidehouse

Public Health, Project Management, Senior Consultant

Guidehouse, Mc Lean, VA


Job Family:
Strategy & Transformation Consulting

Travel Required:
Up to 10%

Clearance Required:
Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

Guidehouse Health combines our public and private sector expertise to assist clients with addressing their most complex challenges and navigating significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation.

The Guidehouse Health team includes public sector and provider administrators, clinicians, scientists, and other experts with decades of strategy, funding, policy, revenue cycle, digital and retail health, managed care, and managed services experience.

Ranked 2024's third largest healthcare consulting firm and 2023 third largest healthcare IT consulting firm by Modern Healthcare, Guidehouse has earned 19 Best in KLAS® awards.

As a Public Health, Project Management Support Senior Consultant, you will:
  • Assist project leadership with program management of a large scale project while also maintaining the ability to deliver on strategy work for healthcare clients
  • Create project plans, define project goals, and set milestones.
  • Track project progress towards the project plan and report on milestones and deliverables.
  • Maintain the project's master schedule utilizing industry best practices.
  • Provide support in developing Program Management Office (PMO) presentations and documentation.
  • Perform cross-functional work on an as-needed basis across PMO work streams.
  • Collaborate with multiple work streams to track project progress, control scope and assist with engagement financials.
  • Develop reports to show progress of schedule tasks, late items, upcoming items, etc. on an as needed basis, including weekly, monthly, and quarterly.
  • Create agendas and take notes during client meetings when needed.
  • Manage the engagement onboarding and offboarding process.
  • Collaborate with project leadership and finance to monitor and report on budget and financial wellbeing of the project
  • Identify and mitigate projects risks around scope, schedule, and quality, effectively escalating to engagement leadership.


What You Will Need:
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 3+ years of relevant experience, preferably management consulting experience in the healthcare industry
  • organized and detail oriented
  • Ability to communicate across diverse teams with wide skillsets and backgrounds
  • Ability to work as part of a team and prioritize resources and time effectively
  • Experience being flexible in prioritizing and completing tasks
  • Experience interacting with senior clients in an organized, knowledgeable, and professional manner that builds trusted relationships
  • Experience demonstrating written and verbal communication skills across all levels of business, including experience writing reports and client/public-facing documents as well as communicating complex concepts effectively through Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Experience with quantitative analysis in Microsoft Excel and/or other analytical platforms and ability to translate analysis findings


What Would Be Nice To Have:
  • Master's degree
  • 3+ years management consulting experience in the healthcare industry
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
  • Experience with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, Military Health System, or commercial healthcare
  • Comfortable and confident presenting to a variety of audiences
  • Veteran of the U.S. Military


The annual salary range for this position is $94,900.00-$142,300.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:
  • Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
  • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
  • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Basic Life & Supplemental Life
  • Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
  • Student Loan PayDown
  • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
  • Skills Development & Certifications
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
  • Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
  • Mobility Stipend


About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at [redacted] or via email at RecruitingA[redacted]. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.

Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.