Consultant - Part-time

A Day in the Life and the Impact You’ll Make:

You will help save lives, reduce serious injuries, and improve the culture of DEKRA’s clients through organizational change initiatives that drive safety performance improvement through client engagements. Our Consultant positions are critical for the overall success of any client engagement, and are the lynch pin between the front line through the organization to the c-suite.

The overall objective of our Consultants is to utilize organizational change knowledge to deliver the results that our clients are seeking, become a trusted advisor, and expand the scope and breadth of existing client engagements. When leading projects, they are accountable for assuring that their team can effectively delivery our primary Consulting solutions with excellence by coaching and mentoring with sincere, candid feedback.

To be successful in this position our Consultants will need a deep understanding of our centerline solutions, be able to adapt these solutions to meet client objectives and understand how the offering can be integrated into the client organization.

Depending on experience, skills, and client needs DEKRA Consultants spend time in a variety of ways:

• Delivering workshops and presentations to groups of various size.
• Conducting one-on-one or small group field coaching with clients.
• With advancement to Project Lead Consultant, perform client-related project management working on smaller to gradually larger and more complex projects.

Three key performance areas summarize the scope of this position:

• Understand the client’s objectives and needs and adapt the centerline model for the client engagement giving the greatest probability of success.
• Understand the role of Governance in Safety
• Ability to establish effective safety governance that aligns with the client organizational structure and functioning.
• Guide and facilitate measurable governance.
• Delivering DEKRA’s suite of solutions with mastery of the concepts combined with industry subject matter expertise.
• Utilize centerline positions and materials that illustrate DEKRA’s Point of View on leadership, safety, and project execution.
• Coach client leaders from the front lines to senior leaders and become their trusted advisor.
• Track progress in meeting client objectives and adjust when necessary.
• Develop a communication structure to reliably remain up to date on the client’s situation including safety performance, successes, business challenges, industry trends, etc.
• Communicate routinely and effectively to the client leadership team.
• Practice honesty: be truthful with the client, in a manner that preserves the relationship, even when it’s hard to do so.

• Create excellent deliverables internally so peers and project leaders can efficiently do their part.
• When leading others on client projects:
• Enable and manage the success of the project team
• Assure all solutions are integrated and aligned toward meeting client objectives
• Communicate routinely and effectively to delivery team, and the overall project team
• Assure the project team delivers to the client’s adaptation of the centerline, across all parts of the client organization
• Deliver performance-related feedback to individual consultants, including areas for improvement and recognition for positive contributions
• Escalate project related consultant success stories and guidance feedback to appropriate management levels

• Contribute to a safe and healthy work environment by actively participating, taking responsibility, and following established procedures and policies.
• Maintain a complete and accurate project plan for the life of the project including consultant scheduling to meet delivery needs
• Meet goals of personally delivering billable hours as assigned by your manager in addition to working on assigned internal projects
• Manage projects toward stated realization rate, ensuring effective utilization of consultants
• Achieve monthly forecast accuracy
• Expand the scope of client relationships and maintain long term engagements by identifying additional areas of opportunity and surface to the…