Senior Skills and Capability ConsultantLocation: Remote within the US, East Coast preferred. Travel to client sites as needed.
Employment type: Full-time employee
Senior Skills and Capability Consultant to work inside client organizations and turn performance problems into measurable skill gains. You will run engagements on your own, from the first stakeholder conversation to results a finance leader would accept. Over time, you will help train the practitioners who join the practice after you.
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.
