Senior Managing Consultant, Specialty Areas
Job Description:
• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for multiple specialty practice areas, ensuring alignment with firmwide goals, modernization efforts, and equity principles.
• Support Managing Consultants in developing and executing strategic visions for their practice areas.
• Promote consistency in consulting approaches, methodologies, deliverables, and standards across practice areas.
• Identify cross-cutting needs, trends, and opportunities to strengthen BME’s consulting services and thought leadership.
• Establish and track KPIs for practice performance and growth.
• Foster collaboration across practice areas and contribute to firmwide systems improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Partner with Managing Consultants to identify and pursue strategic business development opportunities within and across their specialty areas.
• Provide high-level review and guidance on proposals, scopes of work, and budgets.
• Support the development of new service lines and expansion into additional states or jurisdictions.
• Support annual revenue planning and resource allocation in collaboration with firm leadership.
• Represent BME in professional networks, coalitions, conferences, and thought leadership settings.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality consulting engagements across supervised practice areas.
• Provide senior-level guidance to clients on complex public health issues, systems improvements, and cross-jurisdictional planning.
• Serve as a resource for managing escalated client issues, timeline challenges, and interagency coordination.
• Support Managing Consultants in contract management, client communication, and quality assurance.
• Directly supervise several Managing Consultants who lead specialty practice areas.
• Provide coaching, performance management, and professional development to strengthen leadership capacity and technical excellence.
• Support recruitment, staffing decisions, and team resourcing in partnership with the Director of Public Health and internal Operations/HR leadership.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning across all supervised practice areas.
• Strengthen internal systems for knowledge capture, documentation, and shared learning.
• Lead or contribute to internal initiatives focused on improvement of consulting tools, processes, and training resources.
• Support integration of equity, cultural responsiveness, and inclusive practices across all specialty areas and project deliverables.
Requirements:
• Master’s degree (MPH, MPA, MS, or related field) in public health, emergency preparedness, health systems, or a relevant discipline.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in public health, consulting, or systems-building within government, nonprofit, or professional services settings.
• 5+ years of supervisory experience, including overseeing managers or senior consultants.
• Demonstrated success leading multiple public health programs, practice areas, or complex portfolios.
• Extensive experience managing client relationships and overseeing large-scale public health projects.
• Strong understanding of public health infrastructure, modernization, and specialty domains such as emergency preparedness or substance use.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution and detail orientation.
• Commitment to equity, cultural responsiveness, and strengthening local public health systems.
Benefits:
• 6+ weeks total leave, including paid vacation, sick time, personal leave, and floating holidays
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health FSA and dependent care FSA
• 401(k) with employer match
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
• One-time technology stipend
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth
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• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for multiple specialty practice areas, ensuring alignment with firmwide goals, modernization efforts, and equity principles.
• Support Managing Consultants in developing and executing strategic visions for their practice areas.
• Promote consistency in consulting approaches, methodologies, deliverables, and standards across practice areas.
• Identify cross-cutting needs, trends, and opportunities to strengthen BME’s consulting services and thought leadership.
• Establish and track KPIs for practice performance and growth.
• Foster collaboration across practice areas and contribute to firmwide systems improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Partner with Managing Consultants to identify and pursue strategic business development opportunities within and across their specialty areas.
• Provide high-level review and guidance on proposals, scopes of work, and budgets.
• Support the development of new service lines and expansion into additional states or jurisdictions.
• Support annual revenue planning and resource allocation in collaboration with firm leadership.
• Represent BME in professional networks, coalitions, conferences, and thought leadership settings.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality consulting engagements across supervised practice areas.
• Provide senior-level guidance to clients on complex public health issues, systems improvements, and cross-jurisdictional planning.
• Serve as a resource for managing escalated client issues, timeline challenges, and interagency coordination.
• Support Managing Consultants in contract management, client communication, and quality assurance.
• Directly supervise several Managing Consultants who lead specialty practice areas.
• Provide coaching, performance management, and professional development to strengthen leadership capacity and technical excellence.
• Support recruitment, staffing decisions, and team resourcing in partnership with the Director of Public Health and internal Operations/HR leadership.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning across all supervised practice areas.
• Strengthen internal systems for knowledge capture, documentation, and shared learning.
• Lead or contribute to internal initiatives focused on improvement of consulting tools, processes, and training resources.
• Support integration of equity, cultural responsiveness, and inclusive practices across all specialty areas and project deliverables.
Requirements:
• Master’s degree (MPH, MPA, MS, or related field) in public health, emergency preparedness, health systems, or a relevant discipline.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in public health, consulting, or systems-building within government, nonprofit, or professional services settings.
• 5+ years of supervisory experience, including overseeing managers or senior consultants.
• Demonstrated success leading multiple public health programs, practice areas, or complex portfolios.
• Extensive experience managing client relationships and overseeing large-scale public health projects.
• Strong understanding of public health infrastructure, modernization, and specialty domains such as emergency preparedness or substance use.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution and detail orientation.
• Commitment to equity, cultural responsiveness, and strengthening local public health systems.
Benefits:
• 6+ weeks total leave, including paid vacation, sick time, personal leave, and floating holidays
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health FSA and dependent care FSA
• 401(k) with employer match
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
• One-time technology stipend
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth
Apply Now
Apply Now