Strategic Change Leader & Senior Consultant

Guidehouse; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Tuition reimbursement

Mobility stipend

Wellness programs

Parental leave

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a strategic Change Management and Training professional to support FDA transformation programs in McLean, VA. You will lead week-to-week delivery across change management, training, communications, and IT-enabled initiatives, coordinating with FDA leadership and cross-functional teams in agile environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on project management, stakeholder engagement, and developing client-ready communications and training materials; incumbents will mentor junior

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 3+ years of professional experience supporting federal clients, with demonstrated success in project management and delivery execution.
• Demonstrated experience developing client-ready communications, briefings, and presentations tailored to executive, program office, and broad stakeholder audiences.
• Experience managing multiple project teams, including assigning work, tracking progress, and validating deliverables against defined timeline.
• Experience managing staffing allocations across several workstreams on a weekly basis.
• Strong project management background, including planning, execution, coordination across workstreams, risk management, and performance tracking.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance (i.e. US citizenship is required).

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to FDA leadership, program offices, and client stakeholders on change management, training, operational readiness, and system implementation priorities.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships across FDA leadership, program offices, business owners, end users, and external stakeholders.
• Facilitate client-facing executive meetings, working sessions, stakeholder discussions, training sessions, and leadership briefings.
• Lead week-to-week client delivery activities for change management and training workstreams, including planning, coordination, execution tracking, risk management, and alignment with implementation priorities.
• Provide hands-on project management oversight by managing client-facing plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, and weekly task progress across change management, training, communications, and implementation activities.
• Collaborate and coordinate with client stakeholders, technical teams, workstream leads, and functional areas to manage dependencies, resolve issues, and keep implementation activities moving forward.
• Support IT-enabled initiatives and system implementations by ramping up quickly on new concepts, understanding new systems, and translating client business needs into actionable change and training plans.
• Work within agile delivery environments, supporting planning routines, backlog visibility, task tracking, client updates, and implementation coordination using tools such as Jira.
• Plan, develop, and deliver virtual and in-person instructor-led training, adapting materials and facilitation approaches for different client audiences, user groups, and stakeholder needs.
• Draft client-ready communications, training content, job aids, briefings, and other materials that make complex system changes understandable for executive, program office, and broad agency audiences.
• Translate complex data, technical information, and system changes into actionable insights and clear recommendations for client leadership and stakeholder audiences.
• Own client deliverable quality by identifying, correcting, and preventing errors, and holding the team accountable for producing accurate, client-ready work.
• Apply business graphic design principles to produce high-quality, visually compelling deliverables.
• Mentor and oversee junior staff, reinforcing accountability, quality, and consistency in delivery.
• Support workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, and professional development efforts.
• Foster a collaborative, customer-focused environment that promotes accountability and continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities to streamline operations through automation, analytics, dashboards, and business process re-design.

Skills

Change management

Training delivery

Executive stakeholder engagement

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jira

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Excel

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a strategic Change Management and Training professional to support FDA transformation programs in McLean, VA. You will lead week-to-week delivery across change management, training, communications, and IT-enabled initiatives, coordinating with FDA leadership and cross-functional teams in agile environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on project management, stakeholder engagement, and developing client-ready communications and training materials; incumbents will mentor junior