Senior Consultant, Acquisition Content Development
2 days ago
Philadelphia
Job Description ASI Government provides government leaders with the expertise they need to navigate acquisition and organizational challenges so they can make an impact and achieve their goals. For over 30 years, ASI has transformed the way government does business, impacting over 70 government agencies across the civilian, defense, and intelligence communities. Do you thrive on creating unique and impactful value for Federal clients? Are you passionate about partnering with clients and collaborating to create solutions? Do you enjoy the opportunity to drive change that impacts our nation? We are looking for smart, curious, driven individuals to join us in partnering with our client to help them solve some of the nation's most challenging problems. ASI Government serves as a trusted adviser to government leaders seeking improved performance, enhanced organization effectiveness, and strategic change. Department of War Practice Overview ASI Government's rapidly growing Department of War portfolio supports defense leaders in achieving mission-critical outcomes for our nation. Our teams work across DoW components, such as the the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Defense Logistics Agency to address complex challenges in acquisition, industrial-base resilience, emerging technology, workforce, and organizational transformation. We bring together deep mission expertise and rigorous consulting capabilities to translate strategic priorities into practical, measurable results. This is an exciting time to join ASI's DoW portfolio. Team members can contribute across high-priority engagements, work with experienced acquisition, mission, and technical experts, and help develop AI-enabled tools and guidance that make complex government work easier to navigate and execute. We are looking for adaptable, collaborative consultants who can rapidly learn unfamiliar mission areas, create order from complex information, and improve how defense organizations operate. Position Overview ASI Government is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead acquisition content development workstreams across AI-enabled transformation engagements in its Department of War portfolio. Working under the direction of an ASI Engagement Lead and alongside acquisition subject-matter experts, client stakeholders, user-experience specialists, and technical teams, the Senior Consultant turns complex policies, processes, templates, and institutional knowledge into clear, accurate, and usable content for acquisition professionals. The Senior Consultant independently plans and delivers defined content workstreams, from process discovery and resource assessment through content design, validation, testing, refinement, and implementation. The role requires strong consulting judgment, analytical and writing skills, client facilitation, and the ability to rapidly absorb unfamiliar acquisition processes. The consultant is comfortable operating in ambiguous and fast-paced environments, able to synthesize complex information into actionable recommendations, and skilled at collaborating with leadership and cross-functional teams. The successful candidate connects content and tool development, ensuring that AI-enabled guides, search tools, workflow solutions, training, and job aids reflect user needs, authoritative guidance, and real-world operating conditions. Key Responsibilities: Process Discovery and Client Engagement • Build trusted day-to-day relationships with acquisition professionals, program staff, policy owners, and other client stakeholders across assigned workstreams., • Plan and facilitate interviews, working sessions, process walk-throughs, focus groups, and validation sessions to capture how work is performed, where users encounter friction, and what guidance they need., • Quickly understand complex or ambiguous acquisition processes, including variations by organization, requirement, procurement method, dollar value, and level of risk., • Translate stakeholder knowledge and institutional practices into clear process documentation, requirements, findings, and recommendations., • Prepare client-ready agendas, presentations, summaries, and decision materials; document actions, owners, decisions, and next steps. Resource Analysis and Content Strategy • Inventory, organize, and evaluate acquisition resources such as policies, procedures, templates, clauses, checklists, job aids, training, examples, and reference materials., • Assess content for authority, accuracy, currency, completeness, usability, consistency, duplication, and alignment with user needs and process requirements., • Identify gaps, conflicts, redundancies, and outdated materials; synthesize findings into practical recommendations for development, revision, consolidation, or retirement., • Develop content plans and prioritized backlogs based on user impact, process criticality, implementation feasibility, and engagement objectives., • Define content structures, taxonomies, metadata, and navigation approaches that help users find and apply the right guidance efficiently. Content Development and Quality • Develop and refine clear, concise content supporting the acquisition lifecycle, including process maps, procedures, instructions, decision trees, templates, checklists, job aids, training, scenarios, and reference materials., • Convert dense policy and expert knowledge into actionable guidance that is useful to both newer and experienced acquisition professionals while preserving necessary nuance and authority., • Apply consistent writing, formatting, source attribution, version control, and quality-review standards across the content library., • Produce content iteratively in a fast-paced environment, balancing speed with accuracy, usability, and readiness for client review., • Review the work of other contributors and incorporate feedback from acquisition, legal, policy, accessibility, user-experience, and technical reviewers., • Recommend opportunities to simplify guidance, standardize repeatable work, reduce rework, and improve the acquisition user experience. AI Enabled Tool and Product Integration • Partner with product, data, and technical teams to translate content and user needs into requirements for AI-enabled guides, search tools, workflow solutions, and related prototypes., • Participate in design and technical discussions to ensure content architecture, tool functionality, and user workflows remain aligned., • Prepare representative questions, use cases, examples, source sets, and expected outputs to support prototype development and evaluation., • Help validate that AI-enabled outputs are accurate, traceable to authoritative sources, appropriately qualified, and useful within the intended acquisition context., • Track content-related dependencies such as source access, ownership, approvals, migration, configuration, and refresh responsibilities; raise risks with proposed mitigations. User Testing Adoption and Continuous Improvement • Plan and support demonstrations, usability sessions, pilot testing, and structured feedback activities with target users., • Observe user behavior, capture feedback, analyze patterns, and translate findings into prioritized content, process, and product improvements., • Support training, communications, change management, and rollout activities that build user confidence and adoption., • Define practical measures of content quality, usefulness, findability, adoption, and operational impact; contribute evidence for prototype evaluation and refinement., • Establish sustainable approaches for content governance, ownership, review, maintenance, and continuous improvement in coordination with client and engagement leaders. Workstream Leadership and Practice Contribution • Lead assigned content workstreams with accountability for scope, workplan, milestones, dependencies, risks, actions, and quality., • Coordinate contributions from ASI staff, client subject-matter experts, and teaming partners, maintaining clear roles, review cycles, and handoffs., • Provide concise status reporting, surface issues early, develop proposed solutions, and elevate decisions requiring engagement-lead or client direction., • Contribute client insight and delivery experience to proposals, account planning, reusable methods, and repeatable acquisition and AI-enabled offerings., • Support adjacent workstreams as needed to meet critical deadlines and advance shared engagement outcomes. Required: • Experience supporting Department of War or Department of the Navy, preferably within contracting, acquisition, or policy organization., • 5+ years of experience in roles requiring rapid absorption of complex processes and the development of clear, structured content (e.g., consulting, process documentation, training development, technical writing, business analysis, or similar), • Experience independently leading a defined workstream or major project component involving multiple stakeholders, source materials, reviews, and deliverables., • Demonstrated ability to rapidly understand complex or ambiguous processes and translate them into clear, structured, accurate, and usable content., • Strong analytical skills, including the ability to assess large sets of resources, identify gaps and inconsistencies, distinguish authoritative from supplemental content, and recommend improvements., • Excellent writing and editing skills, with experience producing polished client-ready content quickly and accurately for different audiences and formats., • Experience facilitating interviews, working sessions, focus groups, process validation, or user-testing activities with subject-matter experts and client stakeholders., • Strong organization, stakeholder management, attention to detail, and follow-through in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities., • Proactive, ownership-oriented, and team-focused approach, with the judgment to raise risks and propose practical solutions., • Bachelor's degree., • US citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain the clearance, credentials, and client-site access required for assigned engagements., • Willingness and ability to travel and work at client sites as required by the engagement. Preferred: • Experience with Department of War or Department of the Navy acquisition, contracting, or procurement processes, policies, systems, documentation, or workforce development, including familiarity with the FAR, DFARS, and NMCARS., • Experience developing process maps, decision trees, templates, checklists, job aids, training, knowledge bases, or interactive guidance., • Familiarity with AI and machine learning, generative AI, intelligent search, robotic process automation, workflow automation, or digital transformation in a federal context., • Experience supporting content-enabled products through discovery, requirements, prototyping, testing, implementation, governance, and adoption., • Familiarity with content management, taxonomy, metadata, knowledge management, accessibility, or content-governance practices., • Advanced degree or relevant professional certification in acquisition, project management, instructional design, technical communication, knowledge management, or a related field. Why Join ASI Government? • Contribute to high-impact work that improves defense acquisition and mission performance., • Work with experienced colleagues across acquisition, strategy, analytics, technology, workforce, and organizational transformation., • Help shape practical AI-enabled tools and guidance that make complex government work easier to navigate and execute., • Grow in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with visible ownership and opportunities to expand your responsibilities., • Receive competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package, available on our careers site. BENEFITS: ASI Government offers a comprehensive benefit package to our employees. Benefits can be viewed on our careers site. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: ASI Government is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability. To view the EEO Is the Law Poster, click here. PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION: We will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. E-VERIFY: ASI Government participates in E-Verify, a service of DHS and SSA. See the E-Verify Notice and Learn About your Right to Work here and here. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS: ASI is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please send an email at hr@asigovt.com or call 703-253-6300 and let us know the nature of your request.