Senior Skills and Capability ConsultantLocation: Remote within the US, East Coast preferred. Travel to client sites as needed.
Employment type: Full-time employee
What you'll do- Embed with client teams and learn their business goals, performance challenges and existing L&D structure.
- Run capability-gap analyses and performance-consulting conversations with business stakeholders.
- Define skills and proficiency levels for each role, and map them to the work.
- Set proficiency baselines before development starts, then track movement from baseline to target.
- Report proficiency-gain data to client senior leadership.
- Design and prototype programs, pathways, job aids and workflow tools, using AI tools to speed up development where they help.
- Partner with the client's L&D team and leave it stronger than you found it.
- Build trusted relationships with client managers, directors and senior leaders.
- Share patterns, sector insights and reusable assets with the wider practice.
What you bring- At least one full cycle taking a performance or capability problem from analysis to a measured outcome, without a large team behind you.
- Strong experience designing and implementing skills-based organization models.
- Credibility with director-level business stakeholders or above, not only L&D stakeholders.
- Hands-on change management and adoption experience for learning programs.
- Strong performance-consulting and needs-analysis skills.
- Comfort using AI tools for development work, with the judgment to know when to trust or override them.
- Evidence-based thinking, and the ability to defend a measurement approach to a skeptical stakeholder.
- Comfort being the only person responsible for a result.
- Working knowledge of one industry vertical (for example pharma and life sciences, financial services, energy, manufacturing or technology), or the ability to build it quickly.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have: fluency with learning-platform tools, and experience with learning-ecosystem architecture and hands-on solution development.
If you have taken a skills or performance problem from analysis to a result you could defend, we would like to hear about it. Apply and tell us about that work.
