About Public Consulting Group

Public Consulting Group LLC (PCG) is a leading public sector solutions implementation and operations improvement firm that partners with health, education, and human services agencies to improve lives. Founded in 1986, PCG employs approximately 2,000 professionals throughout the U.S.—all committed to delivering solutions that change lives for the better. The firm is a member of a family of companies with experience in all 50 states, and clients in six Canadian provinces and Europe. PCG offers clients a multidisciplinary approach to meet challenges, pursue opportunities, and serve constituents across the public sector. To learn more, visit www.publicconsultinggroup.com.

Career Information 

Our commitment to our clients flows from our commitment to our staff. We focus our business endeavors on the public sector because we value the missions and constituents that government agencies serve. Core to our business is the fundamental tenet that a diverse workforce instills a deeper appreciation of our clients’ challenges. At PCG, diversity is valued and inclusion is an expectation. We want our teams to reflect the communities we serve and are committed to hiring, retaining, and promoting a diverse staff. This ensures a variety of viewpoints are included in our project work, enhancing not only the culture in our offices around the world, but also improving the level of service we provide to our clients.

Senior Associate School Threat Assessment

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Provides industry knowledge and leadership supporting school safety and threat assessment across one or more products and services
• Manage complex relationships across client and partner teams
• Manage and execute large scale implementations
• Collaborates with internal and client teams to develop and refine safety practices and solutions while also providing guidance to adherence to state standards and legislative requirements
• Collaborate with the threat assessment team to ensure that established project management processes and structures are appropriately implemented.
• Provide leadership for teams (both internal and partner) in requirements gathering and interpretation, which may include offering regular review and actionable feedback, both written and verbal.
• Provide project management to ensure on-time delivery of deliverables by team.
• Establishes good working relationship with local, state, federal and private service agencies.
• Provides subject matter expertise on a range of topics relevant to applicant’s background and the project experience (school safety and threat assessment).
• Leads research, speaking engagements and service offering development.
• Provide training on threat assessment and school safety related topics and systems.
• Other tasks as to be determined by PCG management.

Required Skills

• Subject Matter expertise in school safety and threat assessment protocols and practice
• Strong leadership, assertiveness and interpersonal skills.
• Outstanding project management, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Must be tactical in delivering project tasks under tight deadlines, with the ability to keep the big picture in mind at same time from a strategic perspective.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple project streams in a cross-functional capacity.
• Objective decision-making ability based on strategic objectives priority, business performance analysis and resource availability.
• Self-starter, assertive, enthusiastic and has the political savvy to get things done, yet maintain a likeable presence.
• Ability to deal with adversity and differing opinions.

Qualifications

Education: Master’s degree preferred

Experience: 10+ years’ experience developing, bidding and winning public sector management consulting, or comparable work experience

Compensation for roles at Public Consulting Group varies depending on a wide array of factors including, but not limited to, the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. 

As required by applicable law, PCG provides the following reasonable range of compensation for this role: $75,257 - $213,000.

In addition, PCG provides a range of benefits for this role.

Public Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to celebrating diversity and intentionally creating a culture of inclusion. We believe that we work best when our employees feel empowered and accepted, and that starts by honoring each of our unique life experiences. At PCG, all aspects of employment regarding recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, return from layoff, company-sponsored training, education, and social and recreational programs are based on merit, business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, gender identity and/or expression, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, citizenship status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. PCG will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. PCG believes in health, equality, and prosperity for everyone so we can succeed in changing the ways the public sector, including health, education, technology and human services industries, work.