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Senior Strategist; Program Manager (Ft. Meade) at LINK | LAYIQ

Senior Strategist responsibilities include: Client Partnership & Strategic Leadership
Partner directly with clients to understand challenges, capture requirements, and define missions, visions, goals, and KPIs/OKRs.
Collaborate with clients through well-designed meetings and workshops to co-create solutions and gather critical inputs.
Perform high-quality primary and secondary research to inform strategic direction.
Apply human-centered design and design-thinking principles to complex problem sets.
Work iteratively by proactively gathering feedback from clients and internal partners to refine solutions.
Identify opportunities to create tangible business value through current-state assessments and high-level requirement definition.
Develop and maintain strong client relationships, including managing external stakeholders and converting new requests into business opportunities.
Oversee multiple client engagements, ensuring alignment, clarity, and strategic impact across projects.
Content, Storytelling & Project Execution
Elevate content quality and thought leadership in partnership with the Strategy Competency Manager, ensuring strong standards for deliverables.
Translate ideas into compelling strategic narratives, campaigns, and solutions.
Identify content structures, hierarchies, and visual concepts for storytelling products, including content maps and wireframes.
Collaborate with design teams to develop infographics, charts, diagrams, presentations, and other visual products that convey complex information clearly.
Manage multiple internal project teams, organizing assignments and tracking progress, deadlines, and deliverables from both operational and financial perspectives.
Program Manager responsibilities include: Strategic Leadership & Program Management
Lead end-to-end project management for assigned contracts, from strategic planning through delivery, developing comprehensive approaches that create tangible business value based on client requirements and stakeholder feedback
Manage and report project budgets, timelines, risks, travel requirements, and deliverable quality to ensure successful outcomes
Identify opportunities to extend current contracts and develop new business with related clients
Client Relationship & Advisory Services
Serve as primary client relationship manager and trusted consultant, providing expert guidance
Lead client engagements, including visioning sessions, discovery engagements, and review sessions
Collaborate directly with clients and stakeholders to understand challenges and design solutions
Facilitate regular stakeholder meetings, manage expectations and resolve conflicts.
Team Management & Development
Oversee project-specific onboarding and integration of new team members
Supervise project teams, delegating work while maintaining the vision for deliverables.
Allocate tasks and time based on budget and team capacity.
Provide coaching and mentoring focused on delivery excellence and client satisfaction.
Conduct monthly performance evaluations to inform Competency Managers’ formal reviews.
Coordinate with Competency Managers on skill development, career growth, and project-specific resource allocation.
Track team utilization, profitability, and manage subcontractor performance.
Oversee team member transitions and off-boarding at project completion.
Project Execution & Quality Management
Run agile management cadence with project teams to ensure effective delegation of tasks, workload management, and on-time delivery
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate ideas into compelling campaigns, solutions, strategies, and stories
Oversee creation of infographics, charts, diagrams, presentations, and other visual products for print and digital formats
Apply consulting, human-centered design, and design thinking principles to research and execution processes
Ensure deliverable quality on projects through direct oversight and review processes
Document lessons learned and best practices to enhance organizational knowledge
Compliance & Deliverables Management
Ensure timely delivery of contractual deliverables and monthly status reports
Maintain compliance with contract requirements including security clearances, access control, required forms, travel requests and reports, and waivers.
Coordinate with Team Leads and business operations team to produce monthly invoicing and reporting
Work Schedule: Onsite schedule, 3-5-days per week
Full time, 40 hours per week
Some travel required to attend relevant events and conferences, and participate in LINK team events

Senior Strategist; Program Manager (Ft. Meade)

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