Job Description

This role may be based in NYC or Washington DC.

We seek a highly motivated, detail-oriented and business-minded professional with creativity, initiative, teamwork and project management skills to help drive our Crisis and Security Consulting practice focused on helping organizations understand, mitigate, respond to and recover from materializing security threats and risks. Example areas of focus include: corporate security, crisis management, business continuity, workplace violence prevention, enterprise risk management, supply chain risk management, emergency response, and insider risk.

The role of Senior Consultant, Crisis and Security Consulting is that of a fee-earning consultant who will be expected to market, sell and deliver end-to-end engagements.

Tasks and responsibilities

Deliver, either independently or as a member of a team, Control Risks’ consultancy services to clients by developing innovative solutions to complex security and resilience-related risks. You will be responsible for scoping, managing, delivering and/or supporting projects across a broad range of security and resilience domains including activities such as risk workshops, maturity assessments, gap analyses, program and organizational design, program/policy/plan development and implementation, training and exercises, and physical security design and reviews, among other areas.

In addition, the candidate will:

• Independently identify prospects and lead business development activities, including but not limited to conducting client meetings and scoping and writing proposals.
• Proactively seek opportunities to develop projects and business, including by cultivating long-term relationships with clients.
• Contribute to marketing through public speaking engagements, the authoring of thought leadership pieces and development of marketing materials.
• Collaborate across Control Risks to help better solve complicated client problems.

Requirements

Knowledge and experience

• 5-8 years of relevant work experience in the security and/or resilience space in a corporate “in-house” setting or a risk management consulting role.
• Familiarity across multiple areas from the following list: corporate security, risk management, enterprise risk management, workplace violence prevention, emergency response, crisis management, business continuity and insider risk.
• Experience managing projects and project teams.
• Exceptional written and interpersonal communications skills.
• Ownership and accountability to drive success both within the team and across Control Risks.
• The ability to multitask and balance competing requirements, including client-facing, business development-related and internal matters.
• Creative and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Confident and solution oriented with a positive attitude.
• Willingness to learn and develop new skills.
• Security and/or resilience certifications from recognized organizations preferred.
• Experience working for a consulting firm in the areas of specialization noted above preferred.
• Experience utilizing commonly used corporate security, crisis management and business continuity tools and systems preferred.
• Experience in multiple client industries preferred.

Qualifications and specialist skills

• Bachelor’s degree
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time and on short notice with a large degree of flexibility regarding work schedule and peaks in work intensity

Behaviors

• All employees are expected to display behaviors reflective of our company values: Integrity and Ethics, Collaboration and Teamwork, Commitment to People, and Professionalism and Excellence.

The base salary range for this position is $115,000-$125,000 per year. Exact compensation offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Control Risks is committed to a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.

Control Risks participates in the E-Verify program to confirm employment authorization of all newly hired employees. The E-Verify process is completed during new hire onboarding and completion of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, at the start of employment. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates. For more information on E-Verify, please visit

Benefits

• Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarized in the full job offer.
• Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasize the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
• Medical Benefits, Prescription Benefits, FSA, Dental Benefits, Vision Benefits, Life and AD&D, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Disability Benefits, Voluntary Benefits, 401 (K) Retirement, Nationwide Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Program.
• As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.

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