Senior Advisor

Description

• Client Issue Clarification: Conduct interviews following an established framework of questions to gather information on client issues.
• Project Scope Management – Works with full competence to identify, verify, and manage changes to the scope of the project or program, utilizing the most appropriate approach. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Project Tracking and Reporting – Works with full competence to measure and report on the status of milestones in order to deliver predefined project results. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Business Advice: Oversee the provision of business advice of moderate complexity.
• Optimizes Work Processes – Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. For example, uses metrics and benchmarks to monitor accuracy and quality. Takes steps to make methods productive and efficient. Promptly and effectively addresses process breakdowns.
• Communicates Effectively – Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. For example, disseminates knowledge, insights, and updates in a polished, precise, and compelling manner. Demonstrates a deep interest in others' comments. Creates rich documents and reports.
• Community of Practice Management: Participate actively in a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting to build own expertise.
• Governance of Business Analysis Activities – Works at an advanced level to identify, select, and manage the oversight of business analysis work, including decision making, change control, prioritization, and approval processes. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Data Collection and Analysis: Conduct research using primary data sources, and select information needed for the analysis of key themes and trends.
• Workshop Facilitation: Assist in facilitating process development workshops with subject-matter experts, drive agreement on process flows across functional areas, and document processes and activity workflows to develop clear and detailed process maps.
• Consulting Project Delivery: Research, collate, and analyze information to identify key themes and deliver a broad range of standardized training and documentation, advice, or reports to support client projects and programs.
• Consulting Project Content Development: Develop and write materials that are highly visible, such as slide decks for presentations to senior management or standardized client reports.
• Client Issue Diagnosis: Collate and conduct analysis of the tactical and operational information gathered through interviews and research to support the diagnosis of underlying client issues and problems and the design of single solutions.
• Project Management: Deliver small- or medium-scale projects while working within an established program management plan.
• Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Client & Customer Management (External): Manage relationships with small clients while also helping senior colleagues manage relationships with larger key clients and customers.
• Customer Focus – Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions. For example, probes deeply into customer needs to identify less obvious interests or expectations. Consistently goes above and beyond to understand customer requirements and surpass their expectations.
• Data Collection and Analysis – Works at an advanced level to determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Self-Development – Actively seeks new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels. For example, creates a development plan that states clear goals and the tactics to achieve them. Gathers information on where to focus. Makes efforts to apply new skills on the job.
• Consulting Project/Program Design: Contribute to, and record the design of, the project architecture, building on the initial proposal and the strategic interviews to develop a solution that meets the client's stated requirements and addresses any identified client issues.

Requirements

• Situational Self-Awareness – The ability to stay attuned to one's own experiences, motivations, and reactions in the present moment.
• Manages Complexity – Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, consistently looks at complex issues from many angles; obtains a rich and deep understanding; swiftly cuts to the core issue; skillfully separates root causes from symptoms.
• General Experience: Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years)
• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level
• Data Conversion – Works with full competence to use data conversion tools and techniques to encode data in various formats. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Multi-Project Management – Works with full competence to manage multiple unrelated projects (not an integrated program) with possibly different life cycle frameworks such as traditional, agile, or hybrid. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Cultivates Innovation – Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. For example, approaches professional work in unique or innovative ways. Offers original ideas. Appreciates others' creative ideas and solutions and provides helpful input to enhance them.
• Assertiveness – The degree to which people enjoy taking charge and directing others.
• Sociability – The natural inclination to engage with and interact with others.
• Influence – The ability to motivate and persuade others.
• Project Risk and Issue Management – Works with full competence to plan, identify, monitor, analyze, and prioritize risks (threats and opportunities), create response plans, and manage the risk if it occurs. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Project Organization and Structure – Works with full competence to build the structure and culture of the project team, and define roles and responsibilities within that structure to enable the achievement of project mission and objectives and the effective operation of key business processes. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Tolerance of Ambiguity – Comfort with uncertain, vague, or contradictory information that prevents a clear understanding or direction.
• Composure – The ability to stay calm and poised in stressful, difficult, or ambiguous situations.
• Database Reporting – Works with full competence to use database reporting tools and techniques. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Business Insight – Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. For example, clearly understands how own activities relate to critical business drivers. Monitors business news and market changes for impact on the business or on own expertise area; uses this to shape decisions.
• Managerial Experience: Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years)
• Curiosity – The extent to which a person is likely to tackle problems in a novel way, see patterns in complex information, and pursue deep understanding.
• Adaptability – Comfort with unanticipated changes of direction or approach.
• Information Retrieval and Searching – Works with full competence to utilize systems and tools required to search for new data or retrieve existing data in a database. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Risk-Taking – A willingness to take a stand or take chances based on limited information.
• Verbal Communication – Works at an advanced level to express ideas, request actions, formulate plans, & policies by means of clear and effective verbal communications. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Credibility – The degree of consistency between a person's words and actions.
• Project management software – Works with full competence to demonstrate knowledge and expertise in project management software. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Project Schedule Management – Works with full competence to identify, sequence, and resource project schedules for timely completion. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Project Portfolio Management – Works with full competence to develop the strategic plan, and roadmap and manage the strategic changes associated with the portfolio. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
• Tech Savvy – Anticipates and adopts innovations in business-building digital and technology applications. For example, investigates technologies to learn some cutting-edge best practices. Uses digital/social media to benefit the team and add value to the work being done; understands how to avoid misuse of these tools.
• Empathy – Being attuned to others' feelings,motivations and concerns.
• Project Communications Management – Works with full competence to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, archiving, and disposition of project information. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance