Associate Consultant

Vericol; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vericol, based in Arlington, VA, is hiring an Associate Consultant. This role supports clients and internal teams with business process analysis, marketing, and strategic planning.

You will write and edit content, develop presentations, and assist with product implementations while coordinating with stakeholders on a remote-first team. The position emphasizes curiosity, relationship-building, and leadership, with a mix of administrative and higher-level tasks.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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 content for internal, client, or marketing purposes.
• Provide administrative support to the CEO and Principal Consultants.
• Responsibilities may include: attend client meetings, take meeting minutes, and communicate follow-up actions.
• 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

Skills

Intellectual curiosity

Analytical thinking

Courage and humility

Relationship building

Leadership ability

PowerPoint

Word

Excel

Marketing understanding

Strong writing

Flexibility

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Word

Excel

Job description

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

Business Consulting Services

Vericol provides consulting services to government contractors tohelp them win work with the federal government. This includesorganizational design, process improvement, and policydevelopment. Vericol also helps companies with strategic salesefforts on particular contract opportunities, including marketresearch, solution architecture, and proposal writing.

Data Architecture and Strategy

Vericol offers data architecture and data strategy consulting forcommercial companies and government customers. Vericol's workincludes data reconciliation of enrollment data discrepanciesbetween the federal government and insurance companies thatparticipate in the Affordable Care Act/Healthcare.gov. Vericolalso works directly with commercial clients to identifyopportunities to extract hidden value from their operational andtransactional data.

Business Applications for Government Contractors and Professional Services Firms

Vericol is developing a suite of software tools for governmentcontractors, beginning with a sales pipeline managementapplication and a staffing assignment system. Vericol has Betaversions 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 willlikely 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 ofexperience may not be for everybody, but for some people, itcould be exciting.

Job Responsibilities

Work with clients and internal teams to understand how businessprocesses support organizational goals. Support marketing, sales,organizational improvement, and strategic planning efforts throughanalysis, documentation, and communication of findings andrecommendations. 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/Desired Skills

• 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

Education

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