Relevant Experience in the areas of: organizational change management, project management, stakeholder management or communications.
Project Location(s): Client locations: West Coast (LA or Bay Area) but must be open to travel to other cities or states as required barring Covid19 situation).
Key Responsibilities
As a consultant, you will drive work and manage a scope of work and grow quickly in your responsibilities.
Responsibilities include the following:
Support one or more scopes of work (same or different clients) immediately under Nimble.
Learn Nimble systems, how we work as a team and our brand of client service and apply to projects.
Apply frameworks for organizing client deliverables -- your client role may change in terms of the functional area or type of work you perform for that project; you will come up to speed quickly on client-specific frameworks and ensure the team has the necessary knowledge for success.
Lead workstreams within a client project, which includes the following:
Support the maintenance of a project plan once it has been first developed.
Manage all client deliverables that you own.
Structure work for your deliverables and reprioritize unplanned events as they occur.
Communicate regularly with your lead regarding risks and deadlines within your project(s).
Learn quickly the tools, knowledge, and frameworks that need to be applied to client deliverables.
Be responsive to team needs (weekly priorities, completing work in a timely manner for review cycles).
Participate in and be prepared for team meetings, one-on-one check-ins with your team and client meetings.
Must be able to be physically on-site with the Nimble team at the client location 4-5 days a week (barring Covid 19)
Must be willing and able to travel for client work (multiple clients or multiple sites for a client).
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree
Strong references required for consideration, preferably from clients or direct supervisors.
Relevant consulting experience or experience in the areas of: organizational change management, project management, stakeholder management or communications.
Demonstrated experience authoring discrete deliverables end to end with an external client on a regular basis.
Demonstrated experience working across organizational boundaries and interfacing with related projects that will affect your work or your project team’s scope of work.
Demonstrated experience working in teams and groups effectively.
Comfortable facilitating and driving meetings with a planned agenda.
Successfully developing and managing working relationships.
Open to feedback from supervisors, peers, and clients on deliverables, presentation style, perception management, etc.
Proficient in technology and adept at learning new applications and methodologies quickly.
Demonstrated examples of new applications and technology, and learning new frameworks (change management, training, process analysis, etc.) and applying them to your work.
Demonstrated experience leading multiple scopes of work at the same time (internal operations and external clients) or leading multiple projects with different clients.
Can develop a project plan, structure the work, deliverables, dependencies, and touchpoints across workstreams for the team.
Understands and can articulate how their deliverables support the larger project goals.
Understands concepts such as “scope creep” and how to manage discussions with the client and escalate appropriately.
Demonstrated experience identifying touchpoints with related projects.
Experience conducting stakeholder analyses and using that input to design the appropriate engagement strategy in partnership with other project leads and the client for a holistic view of the end users.
Preferred
Project management skills: problem solving, tracking work, status reports, risk management.
Experience in working collaboratively within diverse teams and stakeholder groups.
Experience with SharePoint, Outlook, Microsoft Project, Visio (process mapping).
Please indicate the position you are applying for in the subject line and send resume and cover letter to: recruiting@nimbleconsulting.net