Senior Strategist

IMSolutions, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybride; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

IMSolutions, LLC is seeking a Senior Strategist to translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes for HUD. The role is remote, full-time, and requires high-level governance and cross-functional collaboration with federal leadership.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience advising senior executives, managing enterprise transformation, and developing concise executive materials.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of strategy, management consulting, or related field.
• Experience advising senior executives or government officials.

Responsabilités

• Advise HUD executives on strategic priorities and transformation initiatives.
• Assess current strategies, governance, workforce conditions, and enterprise-management practices.
• Develop strategic plans, initiative charters, roadmaps, and implementation recommendations.
• Prepare decision papers, executive summaries, briefing books, and talking points.
• Coordinate with HUD executives, program offices, and functional leaders.

Connaissances

Strategic planning

Executive advisory

Transformation roadmaps

Stakeholder management

Executive communications

Federal programs

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration / Public Administration / Management

Outils

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Teams

SharePoint

Description du poste

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Senior Strategist

Full Time 40 Hours HUD-Remte, Washington, DC, US

IMSolutions is seeking an accomplished Strategist / Senior Strategic Management Advisor to help senior federal leaders translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, executive decisions, transformation roadmaps, and measurable organizational outcomes.

This role is remote.

The ideal candidate is a senior management consultant who understands how federal agencies establish strategic direction, prioritize competing initiatives, manage enterprise transformation, sustain leadership continuity, and communicate complex recommendations to executive decision-makers. This individual must be equally comfortable advising senior leaders, conducting structured analysis, facilitating cross-functional discussions, and developing concise executive materials.

Position Summary

The Strategist / Senior Strategic Management Advisor important to HUD’s objective of improving operational capabilities, promoting efficiency, supporting succession planning and reorganization efforts, and maintaining alignment between departmental initiatives and HUD’s mission and long-term objectives. The advisor helps HUD executives diagnose enterprise challenges, prioritize strategic initiatives, evaluate risks and tradeoffs, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, and formulate practical recommendations. The individual may also assist leadership with succession strategies, transformation planning, executive briefings, partnership management, and leadership-development activities.

HUD expects advice to be grounded in analysis of portfolio information, organizational conditions, applicable government priorities, industry practices, and identifiable risks. Recommendations must be actionable, mission-aligned, and suitable for executive decision-making.

This is an advisory role. The contractor does not make inherently governmental policy, funding, personnel, or management decisions. Final decisions remain with authorized HUD officials.

These functions include:

The selected advisor may perform the following activities, depending on the requirements of each awarded task order:

• ADVISE HUD executives on strategic priorities, organizational challenges, transformation initiatives, and emerging risks.
• ASSESS current strategies, operating models, governance structures, workforce conditions, and enterprise-management practices.
• DIAGNOSE organizational barriers, duplicated efforts, competing priorities, resource constraints, and implementation risks.
• DEVELOP strategic plans, initiative charters, transformation roadmaps, operating models, and implementation recommendations.
• PRIORITIZE proposed initiatives using mission impact, urgency, feasibility, risk, resource demand, and expected-value criteria.
• SYNTHESIZE portfolio information, stakeholder input, organizational data, policies, and industry practices into actionable executive insights.
• PREPARE decision papers, executive summaries, briefing books, talking points, presentations, and recommendations.
• BRIEF senior leadership on strategic alternatives, risks, dependencies, implementation status, and recommended courses of action.
• FACILITATE executive workshops, strategic-planning sessions, working groups, interviews, and cross-functional alignment meetings.
• COORDINATE with HUD executives, program offices, functional leaders, and internal or external partners.
• DESIGN stakeholder-management and engagement approaches supporting enterprise initiatives and strategic partnerships.
• SUPPORT organizational transformation through readiness assessments, change-impact analysis, communication planning, and adoption strategies.
• DEVELOP succession-planning approaches that identify mission-critical positions, leadership competencies, talent risks, and continuity strategies.
• ESTABLISH measures for tracking strategic progress, transformation outcomes, succession-plan effectiveness, and organizational performance.
• REVIEW draft strategies, plans, analyses, and executive products for logical consistency, factual accuracy, and decision usefulness.
• RECOMMEND corrective actions when strategic initiatives are delayed, misaligned, insufficiently resourced, or exposed to material risk.
• DESIGN OR DELIVER executive-learning sessions addressing strategic decision-making, leadership, organizational transformation, stakeholder engagement, and enterprise risk.
• INCORPORATE HUD feedback into revised products within the turnaround periods established by the applicable task order.
• MAINTAIN organized, controlled, and appropriately protected working files, decision records, and supporting documentation.
• COMPLY with applicable federal, HUD, privacy, security, accessibility, and records-management requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in business administration, public administration, management, organizational development, economics, public policy, political science, human capital management, or a closely related discipline.
• Ability to develop clear presentations, decision papers, roadmaps, and planning materials. |Ability to handle sensitive organizational and leadership information appropriately.

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience in strategy, management consulting, organizational transformation, federal program management, executive advisory services, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience advising senior executives or senior government officials.

Technical Skills:

Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in business administration, public administration, organizational leadership, public policy, management, or a related discipline.
• Fifteen or more years of relevant strategic-management or executive-advisory experience.
• Prior experience supporting HUD or another Cabinet-level federal department.
• Experience advising Senior Executive Service leaders, political appointees, or agency executives.
• Experience with federal reorganization, workforce restructuring, leadership continuity, or succession planning.
• Experience developing or implementing federal strategic plans, agency priority goals, performance plans, or transformation initiatives.
• Experience in housing, community development, financial management, grants management, acquisition, human capital, or federal shared services.
• Experience designing and delivering executive-level leadership or strategy training.
• Familiarity with federal governance, internal controls, risk management, and regulatory environments.
• Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility requirements.

Suitability Requirement:

The Solicitation does not identify a specific clearance level.

Who We Are,

IMSolutions is a rapidly growing woman-owned, veteran-owned Virginia-based management consulting company. We specialize in providing innovative and cost-competitive business and program management solutions to our clients across the public sector. Primarily, our support encompasses assisting clients in acquiring mission-critical capabilities, including developing holistic program strategies for successfully inserting technologies to achieve material solutions efficiently and expeditiously.

At IMSolutions, LLC (IMS), service to our clients, each other, and communities is central to everything we do. We understand, comprehend, and appreciate that people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and points of view lead to better and more comprehensive ideas and solutions. Our IMS culture and commitment to difference and inclusivity help us grow as individuals and in partnership with our clients to drive our unparalleled solutions and customer experience.

IMS is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

IMS is a federal contractor that desires priority referrals of protected veterans for job openings.

IMS is an E-Verify Employer.

If you cannot complete this application due to a disability, contact us to ask for accommodation or an alternative application process.

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