Associate Consultant & Project Coordinator

About the role

As an Associate Consultant & Project Coordinator, you’ll play a supporting and learning role in transforming organizations into inspiring, high-performing places to do meaningful work. You’ll help design and deliver the experiences, artifacts, and insights that shift behavior and build culture in complex government and enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Project Administration: Support the operational side of projects by managing calendars, organizing files, tracking deliverables, and troubleshooting tools and systems.
• Client Communications: Draft clear, jargon-free communications that ensure clients are informed, aligned, and engaged throughout every phase of a project.
• Event Planning & Coordination: Help orchestrate events that become turning points for client culture, managing logistics such as vendor coordination, registration, travel, and on-the-ground support.
• Data Collection & Analysis: Help design and run surveys, interviews, and facilitation exercises that capture the lived experience of stakeholders, and support consultants in analyzing trends, surfacing insights, and framing stories.
• Experience Design & Facilitation Support: Help design client engagements that spark new ways of thinking and working, preparing materials, supporting facilitators during sessions, and capturing insights in real time.
• Presentation & Creative Development: Help bring strategy and insights to life through polished presentations and reports, shaping decks, visual tools, and cultural artifacts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Design, Business, Communications, and Marketing; or equivalent work experience in design, project coordination, or consulting.
• 1–3 years of professional experience in a related role (internships, fellowships, or early career positions count).
• Comfort working in ambiguity and moving quickly without all the answers, and a “get stuff done” mindset.
• Deep curiosity about people, behavior, design, systems, and storytelling.
• Exceptional organization, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• Strong communication - clear, empathetic, and jargon-free.
• Adaptability and poise under pressure; thrives in fast-moving environments.
• Emotional intelligence and presence in high-trust, high-stakes conversations.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong bias for action and innovation.
• Passion for the mission and complexity of the Department of Defense.
• Ability to travel 1–2x per month (up to 30%) to various client locations.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management and coordination.
• Proficiency in project management software.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and prioritize effectively.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with qualitative research methods.
• Basic understanding of human-centered design principles.

Skills

• Project Management
• Communication
• Organizational Skills
• Research Methods
• Design Thinking
• Event Planning
• Client Engagement
• Strategic Thinking
• Visual Communication

Benefits

• Remote-first flexibility with core hours (Mon–Fri, 9–5 ET)
• Health & Wellness: 100% coverage of employee Vision and Dental insurance, 80% coverage of employee basic Healthcare insurance
• Financial Security & Development: 401K matching: 100% match up to 4%, plus 50% match on the next 2%
• Educational assistance by approval
• Professional Organization Membership for relevant professional organizations
• Work-Life Integration: Connectivity Reimbursement: $100/month max, Personal buddy system to ease onboarding journey and beyond
• Onboarding & Support: 5 extra days PTO & $2,500 personal travel
• PTO: 20 days per year, plus 4 end-year reflection & restoration days and 6 paid Holidays
• Parental Leave: Up to 12 weeks paid leave after one year of employment
• Monthly range for this 1099 Contractor term is $5,415 - $7,085/mo., equivalent to the expected annual compensation ($65,000-85,000) when you become a Full-Time Employee with Benefits