Senior Consultant​/Principal Consultant

Senior Consultant / Principal Consultant – Consulting Practice Overseas Security & Defense Transformation Projects (GCC / Middle East)

Start Date: As Soon as Possible

Location: Overseas (Middle East focus). Candidate may be currently resident in-region or relocate. is driven by program cadence and client needs (typically within the host country/region); U.S. travel is not required.

Employment Type: Full-time

Compensation: Competitive base salary (dependent on experience) plus overseas assignment support consistent with company policy and program requirements.

Command Group is a Washington, DC–based firm delivering integrated consulting, security, safety, and risk-management services to government and institutional clients operating in complex environments.

Command Group’s Consulting Practice advises forward-leaning international partners on defense, security, and institutional transformation. Our work is informed by real-world operational experience and focused on execution, not theory.

This is an international consulting role supporting government and foreign institutional clients (sovereign and strategic enterprise). The Senior/Principal Consultant is an embedded delivery leader on high-impact defense and security transformation programs for Command’s clients.

You will work with (1) Command Group consulting team members who drive analytic production and deliverable development and (2) Senior Country Advisors who provide selective senior counsel, client-context insight, and executive-level credibility. You will own substantive content, run day-to-day delivery, maintain cadence, and ensure outputs are decision-ready and implementable.

This is not a fly-in advisory role. It requires being based overseas for extended periods (either already resident in-region or willing to relocate). Travel will be required based on program cadence and client needs, typically within the region; U.S. travel may occur for occasional internal meetings but is not a requirement of the role.

• Lead one or more work streams end-to-end (diagnose, design, implement), translating senior direction into executable plans.
• Run the delivery engine: agenda control, action closure, decision capture, meeting preparation, and follow-up in a sovereign client environment.
• Shape executive narratives and recommendations (options, trade-offs, implications, implementation sequencing).
• Own quality control of all deliverables (decks, memos, read-aheads), ensuring ministerial-grade clarity and coherence.
• Manage and develop team members: tasking, coaching, review cycles, and output standards.
• Support workshops and leadership sessions (design support, facilitation support, live capture, rapid synthesis).
• Produce and maintain program assurance artifacts (RAID logs, risk registers, dependencies, executive dashboards).
• Oversee structured research and analysis (stakeholder mapping, capability baselining, gap analysis).
• Leverage commercial generative AI tools responsibly to accelerate research, synthesis, drafting, and QA within confidentiality and governance constraints.
• Coordinate with Senior Country Advisors and Command leadership to integrate senior counsel into client-ready outputs.

• 5–9+ years of experience in management consulting (strategy, transformation, operating model, program delivery/PMO), including time at Manager / Engagement Manager level (or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience delivering in the Middle East (GCC strongly preferred), including comfort operating in culturally nuanced, senior stakeholder environments.
• Proven ability to lead work streams and drive cadence (actions, milestones, dependencies, escalation) on complex programs.
• Strong executive communication across PowerPoint and writing (decision memos, executive briefs, read-aheads) with rapid iteration under tight timelines.
• Experience supervising and developing analysts/associates/consultants and enforcing high output standards.
• Strong problem structuring (issue trees, hypotheses, assumptions, evidence) with analytic rigor and traceability.
• High discretion and…