Junior Consultant

Avèro Advisors • Knoxville, TN

11d • Onsite

About The Position

Avèro Advisors is seeking interns for its in-person Junior Consultant Program. This cross-functional opportunity provides exposure to client-facing engagements, internal operations, and business development, offering a broad foundation in management consulting and the opportunity to explore professional interests and strengths. The role focuses on government technology and innovation, including ERP solutions, organizational discovery, strategic recommendations, functional system requirements, proposal development, and business process support.

Junior Consultants work alongside professionals across the firm and support client agencies, project managers, vendors, internal departments, systems analysts, and developers. The program also offers mentoring, professional skill development, professional references, and consideration for future full-time roles. The position is based in person at the company's Knoxville headquarters during Summer 2027.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in Business Administration, Business Analytics, Management and Entrepreneurship, Public Policy and Administration, Human Resources Management, or a related field at an accredited college or university.
• Able to work in person at the Knoxville headquarters during Summer 2027.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to assess problems and propose solutions.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with peers, clients, and leadership.
• Ability to follow through on commitments, take ownership of tasks, and close the loop with teammates and clients.
• Willingness to be a self-starter and work independently on projects with specific objectives as well as collaboratively with a team.
• Passion for making an impact through consulting and technology, adaptability, curiosity, eagerness to learn, and comfort with new tools and technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to business process model and notation documentation, including As-Is and To-Be workflow diagrams.
• Assist in mapping requirements to phased implementation schedules covering software selection, configuration, implementation, and testing.
• Analyze existing business processes, operations, and organizational structures to identify gaps and recommend improvements.
• Shadow a Project Manager providing advice, consultation, and technical assistance during project implementation, while supporting customer service.
• Work with client users to define business requirements, resolve issues, and translate requirements into system design documents.
• Support coordination of system design and implementation requirements with vendors.
• Participate in assessing business opportunities, defining problems, and proposing solutions for Business Development.
• Assist in evaluating software and hardware systems and identifying technologies that may improve operations.
• Work with departments across the firm to support operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Help produce business requirements and other project documentation.
• Assist in creating application design documents encompassing business requirements.
• Work with systems analysts and developers on functional specifications, test plans, and scripts.
• Learn about business operations, processes, procedures, and methods for analyzing and evaluating them.
• Communicate with internal and external clients and vendors.

Benefits

• Professional skill development while working alongside a diverse team of professionals.
• Exposure to all facets of management consulting.
• Opportunity to advance to the top of the talent pipeline for future full-time roles.
• Opportunity to gain professional references.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern