Strategic Operations Advisor

Matrix International is seeking an experienced Strategic Operations Advisor to lead program planning and evaluation activities for a client in the US Intelligence Community. The Strategic Ops Advisor will have the opportunity to demonstrate subject matter expertise, intellectual agility, all source analysis, and research acumen by leading operational efforts to produce key performance insights. Further, the Consultant will lead the implementation of recommendations when they are adopted by the customer. This project features the opportunity to interact with a wide range of key stakeholders, including those at senior levels. The position includes occasional travel overseas in support of client objectives. This is an exciting opportunity for an intellectually curious, energetic, data-savvy consultant to work on a project with real impact helping our client develop ways to understand and improve performance of activities that support delivery of our customer’s mission.

Duties/Responsibilities
• Consult with teammates and clients on the development, prioritization, and implementation of process improvement and program evaluation tasks
• Develop recommendations for changes to policy, processes, communications, and training to enable achievement of vision
• Develop and implement research designs with practical strategies for measuring performance of organizational units and/or unit activities--to include development of performance measures and design of actionable methods for collecting and analyzing data; implement strategies and refine as needed
• Perform a variety of research activities to include document reviews, structured interviews, and gap analyses--to include stakeholder identification and logistical coordination for data collection activities and documentation of discussions
• Analyze both qualitative and quantitative information to provide customer with comprehensive insights into organizational strengths and challenge areas
• Socialize results and recommendations with the team at the working-level
• Prepare visual presentations of data and analysis
• Prepare reports and presentations for senior leadership based on research plans, activities, findings and recommendations
• Brief senior level customers on research plans, activities, findings and recommendations
• All-source intelligence research, analysis, and report writing/editing
• TDY travel