Vericol Overview

Founded in 2019, Vericol has built on its founder’s expertise and market familiarity to build a diverse business in the government contracting industry. Vericol’s founder and CEO has held such roles as Chief Growth Officer and Chief Data Scientist for IT contractors serving the federal government. Vericol’s business is in three areas, as described below.

Business Consulting Services

Vericol provides consulting services to government contractors to help them win work with the federal government. This includes organizational design, process improvement, and policy development. Vericol also helps companies with strategic sales efforts on particular contract opportunities, including market research, solution architecture, and proposal writing.

Data Architecture and Strategy

Vericol offers data architecture and data strategy consulting for commercial companies and government customers. Vericol’s work includes data reconciliation of enrollment data discrepancies between the federal government and insurance companies that participate in the Affordable Care Act/Healthcare.gov. Vericol also works directly with commercial clients to identify opportunities to extract hidden value from their operational and transactional data.

Business Applications for Government Contractors and Professional Services Firms

Vericol is developing a suite of software tools for government contractors, beginning with a sales pipeline management application and a staffing assignment system. Vericol has Beta versions of both applications.

Career Opportunity

Vericol is based in Arlington, Virginia, but at least initially, this position is 100% remote. A couple of caveats: this will be one of Vericol’s first dozen employees. That means it won’t be a “normal” onboarding for the successful applicant, and there will likely be some things to figure out together along the way. While this won’t be the company’s first Associate Consultant, this will be the first person in this specific role. This kind of experience may not be for everybody, but for some people, it could be exciting.

If this overview is interesting to you, and if the responsibilities laid out below seem like things you could do, please send a resume and a writing sample to jobs@vericol.com. In your email, if you can also give us a sense of what you’re looking for and what interests you in this role, we’d appreciate it.

Job Responsibilities

Work with clients and internal teams to understand how business processes support organizational goals. Support marketing, sales, organizational improvement, and strategic planning efforts through analysis, documentation, and communication of findings and recommendations. Write and edit various content for internal, client, or marketing purposes. Provide administrative support to the CEO and Principal Consultants. Responsibilities may include:

• Work directly with clients and other stakeholders to understand the organizational goals, business functions and systems, and individual roles and responsibilities
• Perform general market research and analysis for client projects and internal initiatives
• Develop written documents and graphical presentations to explain findings and support decision-making
• Work with others to gather, contextualize, document, and analyze data
• Build data visualization tools, including infographics and charts
• Perform application testing and analysis for product development efforts
• Assist with product implementation projects, working directly with client stakeholders
• Develop marketing and communications plans, and then execute those plans
• Perform graphic design and desktop publishing
• Participate in client meetings, taking meeting minutes, communicating follow-up actions
• Assist company leaders with administrative tasks, including calendar management, travel and expense support, and general correspondence

Required/Desired Skills

• Required: Intellectual curiosity; analytical and problem-solving skills
• Required: Courage and humility: willingness to learn by asking dumb questions
• Required: Ability to form relationships of trust to achieve long-term goals
• Required: Leadership ability, including situational leadership of informal teams to accomplish a complex, short-term set of tasks
• Required: Proficiency with PowerPoint, Word, Excel or similar
• Required: Basic understanding of marketing or business management
• Required: Exceptional writing skills
• Required: Flexibility to perform administrative tasks along with more academic tasks
• Desired: Basic understanding of business operations
• Desired: Experience with Microsoft Outlook
• Bonus: Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite

Education

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree
• Desired: Coursework involving persuasive writing, group projects, and spoken presentations/public speaking