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Job Family:
Operational Effectiveness Consulting
Travel Required:
Clearance Required:
What You Will Do:
Guidehouse's Public Sector Health team is seeking a Managing Consultant with deep subject matter expertise in adolescent health, behavioral health, teen pregnancy prevention, sexual and reproductive health, and youth engagement to support a large federal agency focused on improving outcomes for adolescents and young adults.
The Managing Consultant will serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, providing strategic guidance, training and technical assistance, programmatic support, and thought leadership to federal stakeholders, grantees, and youth-serving organizations. This role will support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of national initiatives focused on adolescent health, healthy relationships, body literacy, reproductive health education, positive youth development, and evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.
The ideal candidate combines deep content expertise with strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and communication skills. Successful candidates will work collaboratively 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 the successful implementation of programs that improve adolescent health and well-being.
What You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- FIVE (5) 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.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust; Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous or evolving environments, proactively establishing structure, identifying priorities, and moving 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 the ability to assess program operations, identify challenges and opportunities, synthesize research and data, and develop actionable recommendations.
- Experience conducting environmental scans, needs assessments, program reviews, literature reviews, stakeholder interviews, or other forms of 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 executive 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 development of high-quality client deliverables.
- Demonstrated 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 with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Teams, and SharePoint.
What Would Be Nice To Have:
- 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.
- 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 initiatives through the evaluation and implementation of automation, AI-enabled, or emerging technology solutions, including development of test cases, evaluation criteria, validation approaches, quality review frameworks, and performance assessment methodologies.
What We Offer:
Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
Benefits include:
Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend
About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@guidehouse.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.
All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com. Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.
If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact recruiting@guidehouse.com. Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.
Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
Job Family:
Operational Effectiveness Consulting
Travel Required:
Clearance Required:
What You Will Do:
Guidehouse's Public Sector Health team is seeking a Managing Consultant with deep subject matter expertise in adolescent health, behavioral health, teen pregnancy prevention, sexual and reproductive health, and youth engagement to support a large federal agency focused on improving outcomes for adolescents and young adults.
The Managing Consultant will serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, providing strategic guidance, training and technical assistance, programmatic support, and thought leadership to federal stakeholders, grantees, and youth-serving organizations. This role will support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of national initiatives focused on adolescent health, healthy relationships, body literacy, reproductive health education, positive youth development, and evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.
The ideal candidate combines deep content expertise with strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and communication skills. Successful candidates will work collaboratively 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 the successful implementation of programs that improve adolescent health and well-being.
What You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- FIVE (5) 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.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust; Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous or evolving environments, proactively establishing structure, identifying priorities, and moving 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 the ability to assess program operations, identify challenges and opportunities, synthesize research and data, and develop actionable recommendations.
- Experience conducting environmental scans, needs assessments, program reviews, literature reviews, stakeholder interviews, or other forms of 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 executive 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 development of high-quality client deliverables.
- Demonstrated 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 with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Teams, and SharePoint.
What Would Be Nice To Have:
- 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.
- 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 initiatives through the evaluation and implementation of automation, AI-enabled, or emerging technology solutions, including development of test cases, evaluation criteria, validation approaches, quality review frameworks, and performance assessment methodologies.
What We Offer:
Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
Benefits include:
Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend
About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@guidehouse.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.
All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com. Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.
If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact recruiting@guidehouse.com. Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.
Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
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Who's Hiring
- Tetra Tech37
- Amazon Web Services5
- Accenture4
- ServiceNow4
- BDO3
Top Industries Hiring
- Law & Legal Services
- Technology & Software
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in public health consultant jobs.
- Master's degree in public health, epidemiology, health policy, or a closely related field
- Experience designing or evaluating community health programs or public health interventions
- Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative data analysis tools such as SAS, R, Stata, or SPSS
- Familiarity with federal or state public health reporting frameworks and compliance requirements
- Strong written communication skills for policy briefs, grant reports, and stakeholder presentations
- Certified in Public Health credential or eligibility to sit for the CPH examination preferred
Tips for Your Public Health Consultant Job Search
Tailor your resume to program outcomes
Public health consultants are hired to move metrics, so your resume should lead with measurable program results: populations reached, intervention adoption rates, or policy changes you influenced. Vague bullet points about supporting initiatives won't get you to the interview stage.
Get your MPH or relevant certification current
Many postings require or strongly prefer a master's in public health, a Certified in Public Health credential, or both. If yours is pending or in progress, say so explicitly in your resume header so hiring managers don't screen you out before reading further.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists public health consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Read the SOW before you apply
Federal and state agency postings often attach a statement of work or scope document. Reading it before you apply lets you mirror the exact evaluation criteria in your cover letter, which matters more in public sector hiring than in private consulting.
Prepare a case study for the interview
Expect at least one scenario question about designing or evaluating a public health intervention. Walk interviewers through a real project using a structured format: the population, the evidence base you drew on, your methodology, and what changed as a result of your work.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate pay
In consulting roles, your title and billing rate tier affect long-term earnings more than your starting salary. When you get an offer, clarify which project types you'll be staffed on and whether the role carries a path to principal or practice lead levels.
Public Health Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most public health consultants?
The most active employers for public health consultants right now are Tetra Tech, Amazon Web Services, and Accenture, and the most openings are in Florida, Virginia, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Federal contractors and large consulting firms with government health portfolios tend to maintain the most consistent hiring volume in this role.
How many public health consultant jobs are remote?
About 98% of public health consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand from federal agencies and national nonprofits that work across state lines. Health policy analysis, grant writing, and program evaluation roles are the most likely to be posted as fully remote, while community-facing or site-based intervention roles typically require in-person presence.
How do you become a public health consultant?
Start with a master's degree in public health, health policy, or epidemiology, then build applied experience through internships, AmeriCorps service, or entry-level program coordinator roles at health departments or nonprofits. Earning the Certified in Public Health credential strengthens your profile, and developing a specialty in an area like chronic disease, maternal health, or health equity opens doors to both government and private consulting roles.
Can you get a public health consultant job without much experience?
Entry-level public health consultant roles exist, but they almost always require a graduate degree in lieu of field experience. Candidates who come directly from an MPH program should emphasize their practicum project, any thesis or capstone work with a real-world partner, and any data analysis or program evaluation skills they developed during coursework. Contract or project-based roles through consulting firms are often more accessible than full-time positions at the start of your career.
What does the public health consultant interview process look like?
Most employers run a phone or video screen focused on your background and methodology, followed by a skills-based panel interview where you walk through a past project in detail. Some federal contractors and agencies add a written assignment, such as drafting a brief memo or logic model. Final-round interviews often include a presentation to a larger stakeholder group, so practicing how you explain your analytical approach to non-technical audiences is worth your time.
Where can I find and apply to public health consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to public health consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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