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Lead Innovation Specialist (Remote)

Location: Remote Opportunity. Washington DC metro-area, or within reasonable travel to our Reston, VA location, preferred.

Join the Innovation Services Team at ICF

ICF ’s mission is to make the world a more prosperous and resilient place . Our Innovation Services Team helps our clients and peers to address complex challenges (https://www.icf.com/company/about) facing the company, society, and the world. Our team uses business consulting, human-centered design, rapid prototyping, and our own Spark Labs toolkit (https://www.icf.com/work/advisory/spark-labs) to accelerate innovation, refine strategy, build new offerings, and advance our organizational effectiveness. With experts in facilitation, data analytics, solution development and experience design, we bring a combination of skills and experience that foster ingenuity and catalyze progress.

Both our team and our work are fun and creative. In addition to ICF's corporate values (https://www.icf.com/company/about/our-values) , we value psychological safety, diversity (https://www.icf.com/company/about/diversity-inclusion) and curiosity, while holding ourselves accountable for results. We collaborate often and build on each other's success. No day, and no challenge, is ever the same, and our mandate and services are continually evolving to meet the changing needs of the teams we serve. We are both leaders and doers who accelerate progress, lead through influence, manage up and across, and roll up our sleeves to get things done.

Our team has members located across North America, with a hub in Toronto, Canada and company headquarters in Reston, VA. We work together remotely on a daily basis using virtual collaboration tools.

Your Role on the Team

As a member of ICF’s Innovation Services Team you will draw upon your facilitation, business strategy, and consulting expertise to guide other company leaders and experts (https://www.icf.com/insights) through innovation and transformation processes. You will lead diverse projects for internal and external clients, leveraging strategy enablement, innovation services, product management, change strategy, research, analysis, and content creation to advance their objectives. You will support the growth, development, and continuous improvement of our team and manage partnerships with other leaders across ICF, finding ways to scale our impact through tools, templates, coaching, and enablement.

Typical Projects Include:

• Designing and facilitating workshops with clients and project teams to uncover new ways to deliver value including opportunities for adopting more tech forward approaches.

• Accelerating offering development by taking ideas from our experts and helping them to define the market opportunity, conduct customer discovery, and develop go-to-market strategies.

• Convening a diverse set of stakeholders and managing an extended process to identify opportunities for and catalyze action towards improving how equity considerations are integrated into the programs we deliver for clients.

  Responsibilities :

• Consulting leaders and experts across the business on developing and implementing their business strategies.

• Developing and facilitating customized collaborative workshops and producing workshop synthesis documents with go-forward recommendations.

• Applying your business acumen to help refine and advance concepts as we attempt to transform them from interesting ideas to repeatable offerings.

• Serving as interim product manager as a two-in-the-box leader with partners from the business to accelerate offering development prior to hand-off.

• Conducting or leading research to inform strategic recommendations or go-to-market planning exercises.

• Designing deliverables that synthesize a diverse array of information and perspectives to help build alignment and drive progress.

• Managing projects and engagements, including developing basic project plans, coordinating stakeholders, conducting business analysis, and driving execution

• Coaching and mentoring our own team as well as partners in the business to share and propagate the unique skills and experiences you bring to the organization.

• Producing templates, guides, and tools that enable others to leverage facilitation, data, technology, and design in their daily work and team culture.

  Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in business strategy, product development, design thinking, technology transformations, management consulting or innovation.

• Virtual and / or in-person group facilitation experience.

• Demonstrated stakeholder management experience, including influencing, and collaborating at the Executive level.

• Ability to synthesize complex, ambiguous, or even conflicting concepts and translate them into an action plan for a team or organization.

• Experience working across disciplines alongside subject matter experts (SMEs)

• Able to travel within North America.

  Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in climate, energy, utilities, water, environment, transportation, disaster management, or infrastructure.

• Project, program, team, or product, management experience.

• Demonstrated success advancing innovation in a corporate context .

• Design Thinking or related certification

  Skills, Aptitudes, and Interests:

• Strong executive presence and exceptional verbal and written communications skills.

• Energized by engaging with new people, projects, and subject matter.

• Self-motivated, entrepreneurial, disciplined.

• Able to thrive in a nimble and agile working environment.

• Adept at leading through influence in complex organizations .

• A product manager mindset and able to transform nascent ideas into repeatable value.

Working at ICF

Working at ICF means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of our day. Smart, compassionate, innovative, committed, ICF employees tackle unprecedented challenges to benefit people, businesses, and governments around the globe. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth.

We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building an inclusive workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to hiring regardless of any protected characteristic, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status, or military/veteran status. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO & AA policy (https://www.icf.com/legal/equal-employment-opportunity) .

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation please email icfcareercenter@icf.com and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations. Read more about non-discrimination: Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf) and Pay Transparency Statement (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf) .

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The pay range for this position is :

$100,034.00 - $170,058.00

Nationwide Remote Office (US99)

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About ICF

ICF is a global consulting and technology services company with approximately 9,000 employees, but we are not your typical consultants. At ICF, business analysts and policy specialists work together with digital strategists, data scientists and creatives. We combine unmatched industry expertise with cutting-edge engagement capabilities to help organizations solve their most complex challenges. Since 1969, public and private sector clients have worked with ICF to navigate change and shape the future. Learn more at icf.com (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3731098-1&h=2556622195&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icf.com%2F&a=icf.com) .