Principal Consultant, Impact Fees

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Demonstrated technical proficiency in impact fees and other utility financial and management programs as well as related areas, such as fiscal analysis.
• Strong network of active client contacts and relationships.
• Ability to manage and deliver complex assignments that require the application of broad knowledge with a high degree of initiative and independence.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Teams. Proficiency with Adobe Acrobat Pro and other business systems required.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
• Capable of presenting/sharing analyses in an interactive work setting while being able to adjust in a live setting.
• Self-starter capable of efficiently and proactively working independently as well as with a geographically dispersed team on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to recommend and implement changes to policies and establish procedures. Provides input to the annual performance process and career development goals of team members.
• Strong attention to details, as MTC deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny.
• Experience and ability to work across disciplines.
• Willingness to learn utility-based impact fees (e.g., water and sewer capacity charges) and other miscellaneous fee/cost recovery mechanisms as may be appropriate.

Traits and Attributes of Top Performers

• Advisory business development: Successful candidates will take the initiative to research and approach new clients and markets to drive growth. They will actively participate in and support sales and account management processes for existing and new clients.
• Collaboration and co-creation; Successful candidates will have the ability to work effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, disciplines and abilities in a cooperative and generative manner, to achieve a common goal.
• Organizational analysis mindset: Top performers will understand the client organizational system, present issues and group dynamics, determine requirements, apply digital fluency in the compilation of data and findings, conducting analyses, and make recommendations for initiatives and mandates.
• Strategic and systematic thinking; Top performers will be able to synthesize different sides of an issue by examining a range of options and outcomes, considering the interconnectedness of elements as parts of a whole system, and building intellectual frameworks to guide decisions, solve problems, support innovation and inform analysis and action.
• Consulting and advising: Top performers will have the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough and transformation relevant to the organizational environment.
• Creativity and adaptability; Top performers will have the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough, and transformation.
• Entrepreneurial mindset; Strong candidates will both seek and thrive on all opportunities and risks; Top performers will leverage tenacity and optimism to innovate, effect change, break orthodoxies and create new value for clients.
• Sincere desire to please our clients: Top performers seem to have an innate drive, beyond personal gain, for ensuring that our clients are pleased with our performance and our deliverables, and they realize that providing rigorous, error-free, and unbiased advisory services is a critical step in ensuring the client’s long-term sustainability. Top performers draw on this deeper motivation, as it takes time and effort to drive change with our clients.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, mathematics, finance, economics, statistics, data science, engineering, accounting, planning, or related fields are required. Master’s Degree is a plus.
• 15 plus years professional experience in management consulting and/or with local government agencies related to impact fee calculation and documentation of all types of non-utility facilities (such as transportation, parks, public safety, etc.), with background and familiarity with economics, infrastructure funding, financial analysis, and/or local government planning.

Typical office environment working with computers. Remote office working arrangements may be negotiable. 

Willing to travel as needed; mostly regional. Travel may be up to 25%. Valid driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record are required.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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