Consulting Engagement Director - Enterprise Transformation

The Engagement Director will shape and lead complex transformation engagements from early solution design through implementation, adoption, and client acceptance.

We are looking for enterprise transformation leaders who can move across strategy, governance, stakeholder alignment, operating model, workforce transition, technology and AI adoption, communications, training, and program execution.

This is not a traditional advisory-only role, and it is not an OCM-only role. The strongest candidate will be capable of operating as:

• Engagement Director
• Solution architect
• Senior client advisor
• Hands-on engagement lead
• Program lead during the early stages of an engagement
• Reviewer and integrator of all client-facing work
• Manager and coach of the consultant team

Early in an engagement, you may simultaneously serve in several of these capacities. As the engagement grows, you will build and lead the broader team while remaining accountable for quality, client confidence, and results.

This is not a volume staffing model. Every NSP practitioner is selected intentionally, and every engagement leader plays a substantive role in moving the client’s work forward and are hands-on operators.

What You Will Do

• Lead complex transformation engagements - modernization, organizational change, operating-model design, workforce transition, governance, and program execution - from solution design through delivery and client acceptance.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across federal agencies, public-sector institutions, and Fortune 500 and regulated enterprises.
• Architect the engagement - design the approach, workplan, deliverables, staffing model, schedule, and quality controls. Translate ambiguous priorities into structured strategies, governance models, and roadmaps that hold up under scrutiny.
• Establish governance structures - roles, decision rights, escalation paths, and operating cadences - that bring discipline without bureaucracy.
• Guide organizational change - leadership alignment, sponsorship, stakeholder engagement, workforce readiness, communications, training, and adoption - alongside the business or technical work.
• Own the overall health of the engagement - including client confidence, team performance, delivery quality, scope discipline, risk, and economics.
• Lead and coach managers, consultants, specialists, and subcontractors as one integrated NSP team.
• Produce executive-quality work - strategic plans, transformation roadmaps, governance models, assessments, briefings, and implementation deliverables - and review the work of others to the same standard.
• Help strengthen NSP’s delivery platform by mentoring practitioners, refining methods, and contributing to reusable approaches and intellectual property.
• Contribute selectively to proposal development, solution design, and oral presentations on pursuits aligned with your expertise, and support responsible account growth in partnership with NSP leadership., * Typically 15+ years of progressively responsible experience in management consulting, enterprise transformation, organizational change, operating-model design, program leadership, workforce transformation, or a closely related field., * Have you held a Director, Senior Director, Senior Manager, Principal, Managing Director, Partner, or equivalent leadership role?
• Have you personally led a complex client engagement from solution design and executive alignment through delivery and client acceptance?
• Are you comfortable serving simultaneously as a senior client advisor, engagement architect, and hands-on delivery leader?
• Are you open to beginning in a project-based independent-contractor capacity?
• Are you able to travel periodically to Washington, DC, and other U.S. client locations?

Do you have experience in Workforce transformation?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * Director, Senior Director, Principal, Managing Director, Partner, or equivalent leadership background - at a Big Four, top-tier consultancy, federal prime, respected boutique, Fortune 500, or similarly complex environment. Exceptional Senior Managers with substantial engagement-leadership experience will also be considered.

• Demonstrated experience personally leading complex client engagements from executive alignment through delivery and acceptance. You can advise executives, architect the solution, run the program, lead the team, and review the work product.
• Strong executive presence with the judgment to advise senior leaders confidently - and without ego.
• Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills. You bring structure to ambiguity and translate strategy into practical execution.
• Program-management discipline across work planning, risk management, issue resolution, quality review, and delivery oversight.
• Depth in one or more of: enterprise transformation; operating model and organizational design; governance and decision effectiveness; workforce transition and adoption; stakeholder engagement and communications; technology modernization; AI adoption and workforce transformation; shared services or restructuring.
• Comfort with the full arc of the work. You are willing to move between executive advisory, solution design, team leadership, program discipline, and direct contribution without relying on a large delivery infrastructure. You know when to stay at altitude and when the client or team needs you to step directly into the work.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship, and the ability to complete client-required background investigations, suitability reviews, or credentialing.

Valued, Not Required

• Prior work supporting U.S. federal agencies or federal prime contractors.
• Existing Public Trust, security clearance, or federal suitability determination.
• Experience leading engagements of $1M+ or comparable complexity, with multiple simultaneous workstreams.
• Experience growing an account through trusted delivery and the development of long-term client relationships.
• Experience developing federal proposals, technical approaches, staffing models, or oral presentations.
• Experience managing engagement economics, budgets, utilization, or delivery margins.
• Experience developing managers and future engagement leaders.
• Advanced degree (MBA, MPA, organizational development, organizational psychology, or related) and certifications such as PMP, Prosci, CCMP, Lean/Six Sigma, Agile/Scrum/SAFe, executive coaching, or facilitation credentials. Significant directly relevant leadership experience may be considered in lieu of formal credentials.

Who Thrives at NSP, * Bachelor’s (Required), * complex Enterprise Transformation: 10 years (Required)

• U.S. federal government: 3 years (Preferred)
• top consulting firm, Big 4, MBB: 3 years (Required)

NSP offers competitive compensation calibrated to the seniority of the role, the scope of the engagement, and the qualifications of the practitioner.

Engagement Model

This is a project-based independent-contractor relationship to start. Exceptional practitioners may have the opportunity to assume recurring engagement leadership or future core leadership roles as NSP scales.

Pay: $150,000.00 - $300,000.00 per year

NSP & Company is selectively expanding the senior leadership community that will shape and deliver a growing portfolio of federal and enterprise transformation engagements.

This is an opportunity for an accomplished consulting leader to do more than join another project. You will help define the solution, advise senior clients, build and lead the delivery team, shape NSP’s evolving methods and standards, and contribute directly to the growth of the firm.

You will work closely with NSP’s Founder & CEO and senior client leaders on consequential modernization, operating-model, workforce, governance, technology-adoption, and transformation-execution challenges.

As engagements scale, you will be supported by consultants, and specialists selected for the needs of the work. For the right person, the relationship may begin on a project basis and develop into recurring engagement leadership, portfolio responsibility, or a future core leadership role within NSP.

About NSP & Company

NSP & Company exists for the part of transformation that decks do not solve.

We are a strategy execution and transformation advisory firm serving federal agencies, public-sector institutions, and Fortune 500 and regulated enterprises through the highest-stakes change in their portfolios - modernization and AI adoption, restructuring, workforce shifts, and operating-model redesign.

We were founded on a simple conviction: strong strategy is not enough. Transformation succeeds when leaders are aligned, governance supports timely decisions, people understand what is changing, and execution gains enough momentum to sustain the result. Most firms write the strategy and move on. NSP stays through the work it takes to make the change hold.

Where Our Work Sits

NSP operates with the agility and low bureaucracy of a boutique while maintaining the rigor, discipline, and quality expected in complex federal and enterprise environments. Our senior-practitioner model gives leaders meaningful influence over the work, direct access to decision-makers, and the opportunity to build., NSP is built for leaders who are done choosing between strategic influence and meaningful execution.

The strongest NSP leaders combine strategic depth with practical execution. They bring structure to ambiguity, advise confidently without ego, care deeply about client outcomes and work-product quality, and remain close to the work. They communicate clearly with executives and delivery teams, raise problems early, and develop the people around them.

If you want to contribute to building a distinctive consulting firm - and you are ready to invest in NSP as a shared platform - you may find the professional platform, and community of peers, you have been looking for. This opportunity is best suited to leaders who are prepared to represent one integrated NSP team in the market and with clients.