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Consultant - Active Secret/Top Secret Clearance Required

The Clearing, Inc.
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 9/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/24/2025
Description

Company Description

The Clearing is a management consulting firm that helps leaders identify underlying causes of organizational obstacles, resolve highly complex challenges, prioritize the fewest, most important initiatives to tackle regardless of conflicting needs, and make informed decisions in the context

of an agreed-upon mission, vision, and strategy.

We help create peak performance organizations through strategy, organizational development, leadership training, and change management. Our experienced consultants bring a powerful blend of analytic and creative skills from diverse fields, including change management, finance, engineering, communications, education, policy, design, and corporate leadership.

Position Description

As a Consultant, you will lead a lane of work or be a Project Leader for a small project. Consultants regularly own tasks and create deliverables, delegating to others as appropriate. They manage project financials and demonstrate effective client relationship management. Consultants are expanding their understanding of project financials and their support for business development efforts (e.g., assisting with business capture efforts) and contributing to proposal development. They are expected to regularly manage up with senior members of their team and leverage senior staff expertise to collaborate on deliverables.

Requirements

  • Manage project lanes or small projects to completion by scoping tasks and managing resources (i.e., time, budget, people) effectively; forecast and track lane/project financial performance and contribute to invoicing reviews and approvals
  • Develop and manage the production of high-quality client-facing deliverables with established project quality standards, and Solution-based products for other team members to finalize and/or approve; demonstrate strong attention to detail and effective written communication skills
  • Support the design, coordination, and logistics of external and internal meetings; apply active listening skills and contribute to knowledge capture during meetings
  • Facilitate client meetings to achieve identified, desired outcomes
  • Develop meaningful and trusted professional relationships with clients; serve as the point of contact for one or more clients in a lane or project
  • Participate in business development and networking opportunities and proposal creation and coordination
  • Onboard, train, and develop junior team members
  • Manage increasingly complex assignments and multiple tasks/client deliverables (and competing priorities) at once
  • Support and/or lead research, data gathering, and analysis to inform the development of client solutions; synthesize and present results clearly
  • Showcase critical thinking skills to evaluate needs, make recommendations, and partner with team members to refine thinking and approaches to client challenges
  • Demonstrate sensitivity to teammate and client strengths and weaknesses to create a sense of belonging and to value individual contributions

What You’ll Bring

  • An active DoD Secret clearance (or higher)
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Minimum of four years of professional work experience, preferably in management consulting or another professional service or client-facing environment
  • Willingness and ability to travel to client sites in the surrounding DC and Baltimore metro areas; occasional travel outside of these regions could be expected (5%)
  • Critical thinking/problem-solving skills, attention to detail, organizational and time-management skillsr
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Flexible and adaptable mindset to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced, high-stakes client environments
  • Desired skills, experiences, and certifications: change management, strategic planning, strategic communication, program management, and/or organizational design experience; PMP and/or Change Management certification (ex.: Prosci)
  • Must be legally eligible to work in the United States, now and in the future, without the need for company (The Clearing) visa sponsorship now or in the future

Compensation

The projected salary range for this position is between $80,000 and $103,000 annually. Actual compensation and starting salaries are determined based on various factors, including the education, experience, knowledge, skills, certifications, and clearance level of the candidate and internal equity. Once at The Clearing, movement through pay bands is based on performance. Base-annual salary is just one component of The Clearing’s total compensation philosophy and approach. Employees are eligible to participate in The Clearing's robust benefits programs, including our incentive compensation (bonus) programs. Please refer to our Careers Page online for a complete list of benefits.

Physical And Mental Requirements

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: Attend meetings in and out of the office, travel (sometimes extensively); occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand; communicate effectively (both orally and in writing); ability to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment; and occasionally exerting up to 10 pounds to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Work is primarily sedentary and involves sitting for several hours at a time. Occasionally walking, climbing stairs, and standing occur in this role. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgment, withstand moderate amounts of stress, and maintain attention to detail. The Clearing is committed to partnering with all candidates and employees to ensure reasonable accommodations are made to meet these requirements.

EEO

The Clearing is committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors. In addition to federal legal requirements, The Clearing complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. These protections extend to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting and hiring practices, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training and career development programs.

Salary Description

$80,000 - $103,000 Annually

Salary : $80,000 - $103,000

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