Consultant (UK & Europe)

Who We Are Looking For 

Our ideal candidate will be: 

• Energetic, ambitious, and forward leaning. 

• Flexible and motivated to sometimes work irregular hours whilst maintaining quality of delivery. 

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. 

• Confident and personable and able to communicate effectively at all levels with team members and clients. 

• Able to demonstrate a commercial mindset and recognize and develop commercial opportunities. 

• Willing to deploy to support consulting tasks globally, sometimes as short notice. 

• Able to demonstrate adherence to values: ethics, discretion, integrity, and accountability. 

Place of work/travel: 

London, UK with requirement to travel internationally on consulting projects, including to high-risk areas and conflict zones. 

What You Will Work On 

Business development: 

• Assist in the generation of new security and crisis management consultancy opportunities in the UK & rest of Europe and globally in support of CSC’s new business targets. 

• Assist with the development and pricing of RFPs and client proposals. 

Consulting services delivery: 

• Deploy to client offices throughout UK & Europe and/or other overseas locations to support delivery of CSC’s consulting services (such as risk assessments, policy/plan development, PSAT, incident & crisis management planning and other projects). 

• Support in the project management/oversight of consulting projects and programs. 

• Support the project management of third-party subcontractors delivering CSC’s pre-incident consulting services including coordination of deployments and general administration (NDAs, contracts etc.). 

• Support the production of relevant documentation/deliverables in line with CSC’s best practice doctrine and methodology. 

Account management 

• Support client liaison and account/client relationship management of new and existing consulting clients. 

Administrative 

• Maintain and/or oversee accurate accounting records as directed, keeping Salesforce and any other platforms used by Crisis24 up to date and accurate in relation to relevant accounts and proposals. 

Other 

• Support the wider Crisis24 and Garda business as required. 

Who You Will Work With   

Internally: the immediate CSC team, including the Associate Consultant Team, as well as the wider Crisis24 team and the GardaWorld team/s in Europe and globally. 

Externally: Clients, information sources and third-party providers & subcontractors. 

The Consultant will report to the Director for UK & Europe. These responsibilities will be monitored and managed through the company performance management review cycle and regular monitoring of performance against KPIs throughout the year. Core accountabilities are support to the development and delivery of consulting opportunities and services; execution of defined administrative tasks; participation in company performance management cycle. 

What You Will Bring   

• Relevant academic background / qualifications (incl. but not limited to International Relations, Geopolitics, Counter Terrorism or similar). 

• Minimum 3 years' previous experience in a relevant field, such as intelligence, analysis, research, operations center support or another commercial environment. 

• Extensive travel experience globally including in high threat / hostile environments. 

• Competent skills with office-based software; MSOffice. 

• Second European language an advantage (French, German and Spanish preferred). 

• Must be invested in own development: willing to develop a high level of industry knowledge and awareness of geopolitical and security/crisis management issues and trends and prepared to study towards relevant qualifications (CsMP, PsP or other). 

Benefits  

• The annual leave year runs from 1 January to 31 December. Your paid annual leave entitlement will be 25 days per annum. 

• Group Life Insurance effective upon commencement of employment. Death in Service pays out at 4x base salary. 

• Employee Assistance Program effective upon commencement of employment. Full details will be provided after joining the company. 

• A Discretionary Bonus Scheme, effective in the year following your employment, and based on company performance in the previous fiscal year. 

• Group Pension Scheme, to which you will be automatically enrolled from the beginning of the third month following start date:  

• We will match your contributions up to 5%. The minimum contribution you can make to the scheme is 4%. 

• You will be entitled to opt out should you wish.