Public & Adolescent Health Managing Consultant

Guidehouse•Tysons Corner, VA

About The Position

Guidehouse’s Public Sector Health team is seeking a Managing Consultant with subject matter expertise in adolescent health, behavioral health, teen pregnancy prevention, sexual and reproductive health, and youth engagement. The role supports a large federal agency focused on improving outcomes for adolescents and young adults. As a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, the Managing Consultant provides strategic guidance, training and technical assistance, programmatic support, and thought leadership to federal stakeholders, grantees, and youth-serving organizations. The position supports the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of national initiatives related to adolescent health, healthy relationships, body literacy, reproductive health education, positive youth development, and evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs. The consultant works with federal staff, community-based organizations, healthcare practitioners, educators, and youth-serving professionals to develop resources, deliver training and technical assistance, facilitate peer learning, identify emerging trends and promising practices, and support program implementation that improves adolescent health and well-being.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
Five or more years of experience in consulting, public health, adolescent health, youth development, teen pregnancy prevention, behavioral health, maternal and child health, women’s health, sexual and reproductive health, or a related field.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust.
Ability to work effectively in ambiguous or evolving environments, establish structure and priorities, and move work forward with limited direction.
Ability to anticipate project needs, identify emerging issues and risks, and recommend solutions with limited direction.
Ability to translate technical, research, or programmatic information into practical recommendations and accessible materials for varied audiences.
Demonstrated experience supporting federal, state, local, tribal, or community-based programs focused on adolescent health, healthy relationships, youth engagement, sexual or reproductive health education, maternal and child health, positive youth development, or teen pregnancy prevention.
Experience providing training and technical assistance, facilitation, coaching, or capacity-building support to organizations, practitioners, educators, healthcare providers, or youth-serving professionals.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including assessing program operations, synthesizing research and data, and developing actionable recommendations.
Experience conducting environmental scans, needs assessments, program reviews, literature reviews, stakeholder interviews, or other qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Experience developing written products such as reports, briefs, toolkits, guidance documents, training materials, curricula, presentations, and client deliverables.
Experience facilitating meetings, workshops, stakeholder discussions, communities of practice, trainings, webinars, or collaborative working sessions.
Ability to synthesize complex information and communicate clear, evidence-based findings through presentations, reports, technical assistance products, and client-facing deliverables.
Strong consulting skills, including executive communication, presentation development, structured problem solving, stakeholder management, facilitation, attention to detail, and production of high-quality client deliverables.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, and deliver high-quality work in fast-paced client environments.
Experience engaging diverse stakeholders, including youth, parents and caregivers, educators, healthcare providers, community organizations, researchers, and government partners.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Teams, and SharePoint.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree or higher in Public Health, Adolescent Health, Women’s Health, Health Education, Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, Behavioral Health, Human Services, Behavioral Sciences, or a related field.
Active Public Trust or suitability.
Experience supporting HHS or other federal or state public health programs.
Experience supporting national technical assistance centers, learning collaboratives, peer-learning networks, or large-scale training initiatives.
Experience in program evaluation, implementation science, research, performance measurement, or continuous quality improvement.
Knowledge of evidence-based and evidence-informed approaches to adolescent health, teen pregnancy prevention, body literacy, reproductive health education, and youth development.
Knowledge of culturally responsive, trauma-informed, youth-centered, and equity-focused approaches to program design and service delivery.
Experience engaging youth advisory boards, youth leadership councils, or youth co-design initiatives.
Published research, conference presentations, or thought leadership related to adolescent health, youth development, reproductive health, or teen pregnancy prevention.
Experience working with underserved, rural, tribal, culturally diverse, or historically marginalized youth populations.
Experience leading teams, coordinating stakeholders, and managing workstreams in support of client engagements.
Experience supporting process modernization through evaluation and implementation of automation, AI-enabled, or emerging technology solutions, including test cases, evaluation criteria, validation approaches, quality review frameworks, and performance assessment methodologies.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic guidance, training and technical assistance, programmatic support, and thought leadership to federal stakeholders, grantees, and youth-serving organizations.
Support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of national adolescent health and youth-focused initiatives.
Develop resources and deliver training and technical assistance to federal staff, community-based organizations, healthcare practitioners, educators, and youth-serving professionals.
Facilitate peer learning, meetings, workshops, stakeholder discussions, communities of practice, trainings, webinars, and collaborative working sessions.
Identify emerging trends and promising practices relevant to adolescent health and youth-serving programs.
Assess program operations and synthesize research and data to identify challenges, opportunities, and actionable recommendations.
Conduct environmental scans, needs assessments, program reviews, literature reviews, stakeholder interviews, and other qualitative or quantitative analyses.
Develop reports, briefs, toolkits, guidance documents, training materials, curricula, presentations, and other client deliverables.
Communicate evidence-based findings through executive presentations, reports, technical assistance products, and client-facing materials.
Engage diverse stakeholders, including youth, parents and caregivers, educators, healthcare providers, community organizations, researchers, and government partners.
Anticipate project needs and emerging issues or risks, recommend solutions, manage multiple priorities, and deliver high-quality work in fast-paced client environments.