Senior Consultant – Retrofit Planning, Strategy

Overview

• Lead multi-workstream projects from scoping through delivery: define methodology, set QA standards, oversee analysis, and drive decision-ready recommendations
• Own client relationships: clarify scope, manage change, present to executives and program owners, and steward satisfaction and follow-on opportunities
• Design and facilitate stakeholder engagements (focus groups, workshops, technical roundtables) that reconcile competing priorities into actionable plans
• Author high-impact deliverables: executive summaries, decision memos, technical appendices, implementation roadmaps, and conference-ready presentations
• Drive business development: shape win themes, lead proposal strategy, price level-of-effort, and coordinate teaming; coach others to write winning bids
• Mentor & quality-assure: review work products, coach intermediate/analyst staff, and institutionalize templates and best practices
• Represent FRESCo: thought leadership, panel appearances, and client briefings

Requirements

• 8+ years in building retrofit planning/strategy and/or program/policy consulting
• Relevant education (engineering, planning, public policy, economics, building science, or related)
• Strategic communicator: adept at framing trade-offs, clarifying decisions, and aligning technical, financial, and policy considerations
• Advanced project leadership: budgeting, risk management, change control, multi-vendor coordination, and executive-level reporting
• Deep familiarity with decarbonization/retrofit technologies, implementation barriers, incentive structures, and regulatory/policy levers, or capacity to learn and master content quickly
• Analytical depth: comfort directing modeling/analysis, reviewing assumptions, and challenging results; fluency in Excel and comfort deploying AI tools to enhance throughput
• Proven proposal leadership with measurable RFP wins in public-sector/utility/private sector