1. Purpose of Position:
As a key member of the team, Consultant develops relationships with client team members. Depending on allocations and the client needs, Consultant may be managing others on a project. They are expected to manage themselves – time allocation, learning new things, maintaining project timelines and budget for areas that they control.
2. Primary responsibilities:
The primary responsibilities of the Consultant are to:
-Understand client or external data and present analysis to project team
-Support senior members in clearly articulating client needs.
-Participate in designing solutions for solving client issues
-Conduct independent data gathering activities
-Design qualitative and quantitative research tools
-Analyse market and client data sets to create insight
-Craft day-to-day client team communication
-Draft client deliverables, presentation and proposal materials
3. Reporting requirements:
The role reports to the Manager or above. Reporting requirements include:
-Attendance of all team meetings
-Participate in regular project status updates with the project manager on client engagements
-Regular updates with line manager
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-Timely submission of assigned
reports/deliverables
-Semi-Annual updates on the status of Key Result Areas, as well as any other important areas of concern
4. Relationships
Key relationships will be both with their manager, project managers as well as the wider Consulting team
When working on a particular client project, there will be a designated project manager who the consultant will be required to liaise closely with throughout the duration of the project
5. Authority levels:
The role carries a degree of autonomy with appropriate consultation. The role is required to:
-Analyse and make sound recommendations to the line manager
-Contribute to process improvement through innovative and cost-effective
proposals/ideas/suggestions
-Work autonomously to identify key issues in the client’s internal and external environment and apply relevant Palladium knowledge and practises to identify and develop analysis and recommendations/deliverables
-Identify opportunities to provide constructive feedback with the objective of contributing to the personal and professional development of both self and team members
Required Qualifications:
6. Minimum Education and experience required
-Bachelor’s degree from a leading institution
-Relevant consulting experience
-Excellent MS Office skills
-Good written and verbal business communications skills
-Familiarity with the Kaplan/Norton framework and/or other performance management methodology is highly desirable
7. Key Skills required:
-Outstanding facilitation skills, memorable in-person presentation abilities
-Results driven, persistent, flexible, and persuasive
-Self-starter/pro-active, strong entrepreneurial spirit
-Willingness to travel on a weekly basis
-Demonstrate ability to design a good PowerPoint slide as well as an entire presentation
-Proficiency in written and spoken English and Arabic
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