Senior Consultant - Govt Consulting & Program Management - Education

Designation: Project Manager/Project Consultant

Location: Gandhinagar/Ahemdabad for Gujarat and Vizag for AP

Salary Range: 14-17 LPA

Consultants offer advice and expertise to organisations to help them improve their business performance in terms of operations, profitability, management, structure and strategy. Although the workload can be heavy, consulting is a sociable profession with plenty of networking opportunities. The work stretches across a variety of areas, including project management, PMU management, focussing on strategy and deployment of resources.

The projects you are involved in and the tasks you are given depend on the area you are working on, but general responsibilities include:

- Conducting research, surveys and interviews to gain understanding of projects

- Analysing statistics

- Detecting issues and investigating ways to resolve them

- Assessing the pros and cons of possible strategies

- Compiling and presenting information orally, visually and in writing

- Making recommendations for improvement, using computer models to test them and presenting findings to govt bodies

- Implementing agreed solutions

- Developing and implementing new procedures or training.

Qualifications and training required :

- GraduatesorMBA can have a degree in any discipline, although business, management, economics, mathematics or statistics can be advantageous

Key skills for consultants :

- Keen interest to build a career in the impact sector

- Commercial awareness

- Good numerical skills

- Attention to detail

- Analytical skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills

- Tact and persuasive ability

- Teamworking skills

- IT skills

- Good oral and written communication skills

- Self-motivation and drive