Managing Consultant, Workforce Development

Founded in 2004, BME Strategies is a Massachusetts-based consulting firm specializing in providing Public Health design and implementation programming for local, regional, and state governments.

Position Overview

As part of the BME Strategies Management Team, the Managing Consultant, Workforce Development (WD) plays a pivotal role in shaping the firm’s strategic direction for building and sustaining a capable, equitable, and modern public health workforce. This role ensures that BME Strategies’ workforce development practice advances organizational capacity, talent pipelines, and systems that enable strong local public health performance, while actively contributing to the firm’s business development and growth strategy.

Managing Consultants serve as Practice Leads. The WD Practice Lead will guide strategy, oversee client engagements, and lead technical assistance projects related to workforce development planning, training system design, recruitment and retention strategies, competency frameworks, and performance management approaches. They will also play a key role in identifying new opportunities within Massachusetts and targeted expansion states, cultivating client and partner relationships, and developing high-quality proposals that expand BME’s impact and reach.

Working collaboratively with municipal and state partners, the WD Practice Lead will implement sustainable workforce solutions aligned with national public health standards and equity principles.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute a strategic vision for the Workforce Development practice area, ensuring alignment with public health modernization and workforce equity goals.
• Identify and forecast workforce needs across BME’s client portfolio to ensure scalable, data-informed strategies.
• Monitor emerging trends, tools, and policy shifts in the public health workforce landscape, including competency frameworks, accreditation standards, and capacity-building innovations.
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure impact and success of workforce initiatives and firm-wide goals.
• Provide expertise across BME Strategies practice areas to integrate workforce planning, learning, and leadership development approaches into broader client initiatives.
• Coordinate with other BME Practice Leads to ensure systems improvement and knowledge sharing is prioritized consistently across the organization.
• Contribute to firm-wide learning through case studies, best-practice guidance, and internal staff development.

Business Development

Account Management

Workforce Systems and Capacity Building

Stakeholder & People Management

Requirements

Required :

Preferred :

Working Conditions

Benefits

Expected range is $95,000 to $120,000 / annually - with annual bonus opportunity, contingent on performance and the achievement of both individual and firm-wide business development goals.

Comprehensive benefits package, including :

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