Guidehouse is a global consulting firm that provides advisory, digital, and managed services to commercial and public-sector organizations. Its work supports clients in national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure, combining data analytics, digital technologies, risk management, and related expertise to address complex operational and strategic challenges. Guidehouse also emphasizes sustainability and innovation in its approach to organizational transformation.
Senior Consultant, Grants Innovation and AI Solutions — Remote Virginia
Guidehouse is seeking a Senior Consultant to modernize federal grants management for its clients. The role evaluates AI solutions, policies, requirements, and quality assurance throughout the grants lifecycle.
United States
Virginia$98,000 – $163,000 / year
RemoteFull-timeSeniorEnglish RequiredArtificial IntelligenceDescription
- Modernize federal clients’ grants management operations across the full grants lifecycle
- Evaluate and improve grant application screening and review processes
- Assess AI-enabled solutions for application screening, review, compliance assessment, and quality assurance
- Analyze federal grants policies, program requirements, review criteria, and guidance to create evaluation frameworks and documented requirements
- Collect, document, and validate business, functional, and operational requirements through interviews, workshops, document reviews, and working sessions
- Review grants processes, operating models, policies, and program requirements to identify risks, gaps, opportunities, and recommendations
- Perform analyses and quality reviews that improve operational effectiveness, compliance, consistency, and program outcomes
- Design and carry out evaluations of AI-generated outputs while supporting human review activities
- Contribute to transformation initiatives involving requirements gathering, policy analysis, technology evaluation, quality assurance, automation, and AI-enabled solutions
- Prepare requirements documents, policy analyses, evaluation criteria, testing approaches, findings reports, recommendations, presentations, training materials, and client communications
- Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to manage priorities, execute projects, and meet client objectives
- Take ownership of high-quality deliverables within a collaborative, client-focused consulting team
Requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust; candidates with active Public Trust or suitability are preferred
- Bachelor’s degree
- At least five years of experience in consulting, project management, business analysis, policy analysis, grants management, quality assurance, or a related field
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Experience interpreting policies, regulations, business requirements, review criteria, or program guidance and converting them into operational processes, evaluation criteria, or technical requirements
- Experience collecting, documenting, validating, and managing business and functional requirements
- Experience supporting quality assurance, evaluation criteria, testing, validation, or review activities
- Experience producing structured documentation, standard operating procedures, evaluation frameworks, technical documentation, or implementation guidance
- Ability to synthesize complex information and present well-supported findings through executive presentations, reports, requirements documents, policy analyses, and client deliverables
- Strong consulting capabilities, including structured problem-solving, attention to detail, executive communication, stakeholder management, deliverable development, and competing-priority management in a fast-paced client setting
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, collaborate across teams, and produce high-quality work in fast-paced client environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing, facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and client-ready deliverables
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Teams and SharePoint
- Experience supporting federal grants programs, including application review, eligibility determination, administration, operations, monitoring, compliance, and oversight
- Experience working with federal government clients
- Experience supporting process modernization, workflow automation assessments, AI-enabled solution evaluations, business requirements gathering, and technology implementation initiatives
- Experience assessing AI, automation, decision-support, or emerging technologies in regulated, compliance-focused, or federal environments
- Experience developing test cases, evaluation criteria, quality review frameworks, validation approaches, or performance assessment methodologies
- Experience working in Agile environments with Jira, Salesforce, or similar platforms
- Experience leading teams, coordinating stakeholders, and managing workstreams for client engagements
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
- Personal and family sick time plus company-paid holidays
- Potential eligibility for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- Parental leave and adoption assistance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Basic and supplemental life insurance
- Health Savings Account, dental and vision accounts, and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Student loan paydown assistance
- Tuition reimbursement, personal development, and learning opportunities
- Skills development and certification opportunities
- Employee referral program
- Company-sponsored events and community outreach
- Emergency backup childcare program
- Mobility stipend
- Flexible benefits package
- Flexible work arrangements, including a remote option