Interested in working in an innovative, collaborative environment with motivated, social people? At Arc Aspicio, you can join a leading consulting firm that specializes in human capital, data analytics, management, and strategy professional services to deliver compelling solutions. Consultants join our practice focused on mission-critical projects and quickly learn to contribute to and grow our company across multiple projects. We invest in hiring, mentoring, and training smart, diverse, and self-driven professionals interested in all aspects of the company and our homeland security and Government clients. We are looking for people who are willing to share ideas and work as part of a collaborative, innovative team.
The Operational Strategic Planner brings expertise in developing, coordinating, validating, maintaining, and presenting national- and regional-level planning products that integrate activities across multiple stakeholders. They have at least 5 years of relevant experience delivering practical planning products that strengthen operational readiness and mission execution.
Arc Aspicio is currently working in a hybrid work environment where work will be performed at client sites, the Arc Aspicio DC office, and remotely. All candidates must live in the Washington, DC area at the time of employment.
Responsibilities
- Develop, revise, coordinate, validate, maintain, and present national- and regional-level consequence management planning products
- Translate complex risks, competing priorities, and multiagency inputs into coordinated, decision-ready plans for major national events
- Integrate planning across multiple venues, jurisdictions, governmental offices, and Federal interagency partners
- Apply current Government-approved planning assumptions, methodologies, governance structures, and templates
- Provide qualified emergency management and consequence management planning subject matter expertise
- Prepare agendas, read-ahead materials, decision papers, meeting summaries, action items, and executive briefings
- Support planning meetings, workshops, working groups, and senior-leader engagement
- Identify planning gaps, dependencies, risks, decision points, and required actions
- Collaborate with our clients to solve tough problems, delivering outstanding client service, and achieving mission results
- Apply excellent consulting, business analysis, and communications skills to quickly identify problems, analyze challenges, and recommend solutions to our team and our clients
Required Qualifications
- At least 5 years of relevant qualified emergency management and consequence management planning and demonstrated work engaging and interacting across organizational boundaries and government entities
- Direct experience with senior clients and stakeholder engagement and delivering work products for clients in a complex environment
- Proven to be flexible and thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous, and complex work environment and manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
- Outstanding written and oral communication and collaboration skills and strong leadership potential
- Ability to collaborate and work effectively remotely and in-person
- Technologically savvy, especially with Microsoft products and use of collaboration tools like SharePoint
- Desire to join a consulting firm and learn business concepts; loves to collaborate and reach out to get involved in company events, offerings, and special projects
- Ability to work in the Washington, DC metro area and travel to different locations
- Clearance: U.S. Citizenship only (no dual citizenship). Currently holds a Public Trust level clearance or have the ability to obtain and maintain a position of trust/Federal security clearance
- Education: Bachelor’s degree
- Critical Skills: Executive presence, entrepreneurial spirit, strong work ethic, collaborative mind-set, excellent problem-solving skills, and interest in working in a consulting firm. Interest in working on assignments outside of one project is strongly desired
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of relevant emergency management and consequence management planning experience
- Experience engaging and interacting across organizational boundaries and government entities
- Direct experience with senior clients, stakeholder engagement, and delivering client work products in complex environments
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects in dynamic, ambiguous, and complex environments
- Excellent written and oral communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and leadership skills
- Ability to work effectively remotely and in person
- Technological proficiency with Microsoft products and collaboration tools such as SharePoint
- Ability to work in the Washington, DC metro area and travel to different locations
- U.S. citizenship without dual citizenship
- Currently hold a Public Trust clearance or be able to obtain and maintain a position of trust or federal security clearance
- Bachelor's degree
- Interest in consulting, business concepts, company events, special projects, and assignments across multiple projects
What We Do
At Arc Aspicio, we enhance the future of our nation by creating bold ideas and bringing them to life. We are a consulting and solutions company that collaborates with clients to implement change and solve challenging problems. Our vision is to be a hub of creativity where people take action to change the world. We foster a culture of innovation and action, where each employee uniquely contributes their strengths and where a human-centered, mission-focused approach drives how we solve difficult problems. Arc Aspicio’s positions are mostly in the Washington DC metro area and our employees live in DC, VA, and MD within commuting distance of our client sites and DC office. We enable our high-performing teams to collaborate and tailor our capabilities and methods to the very specific and unique challenges of our clients, partners, and stakeholders. Innovation is not possible without action. We integrate our capabilities in strategy, design, data, human capital, behavioral science, and technology to meet complex challenges and deliver innovation. We seek entrepreneurial consultants are interested in problem solving, collaboration with clients and project teams, and building capability and winning new business. Our culture empowers our employees to learn, share knowledge, and be leaders in everything they do. We encourage everyone to express gratitude to their teammates who become so much more than just coworkers. Driven and motivated by action, our culture inspires us to work together to solve problems, socialize, support, care for, and challenge one another as we change the world. Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Innovation (DEII) Blueprint provides the company with a structured approach to focus efforts in specific areas and achieve and maintain our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, enhancing innovation for our clients and employees.
