IT Consultant Job Description
Most Recent Research: 21 January, 2012
Job Description
To deliver expert counsel within a given field of specialization. Provide thought leadership by offering authentic and valuable advice to clients.
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Tasks and Activities
- Establish rich and fruitful communications with clients to understand their core business, service requirements and key challenges.
- Deliver fit for purpose solutions that address the client's requirements and key challenges.
- Align solutions to the business strategic plan and technology road maps.
- Facilitate intra-client processes and communications.
- Produce reports, strategy, policy, process or third party agreements.
- Promote and apply formal methodologies across the organization.
- Produce frameworks and standards.
Role at a Glance
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Facilitation and negotiation skills.
- Broad knowledge process improvement techniques and principles.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Project Management methodologies such as PMBOK or Prince2.
- Excellent knowledge of information systems and infrastructure.
- Excellent knowledge of software development methodologies.
Organizational Position
Reporting to the Executive Director this position generally works independently or with a small support crew. Communications with technical, administrative and managerial staff is usually required in order to gather requirements and understand the business.
Qualifications & Certifications
May hold a degree such as a Bachelor of Information Technology, Bachelor of Business or an MBA as well as ITIL certifications. Generally considered an expert in a given field.
Key Competencies
Situational Analysis
Influencing
Strategic Insight
Situational Analysis
Communications
Financial proprietary
Attributes of an excellent Consultant
An excellent consultant has the ability to quickly and accurately establish the client's core business and key challenges. Excellent solutions meet objectives or mitigate the client's key issues over the long term whilst working within business related constraints and restrictions.
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Attraction to the position and job retention strategies for employers
This role is well suited to highly experienced experts who are passionate about their field of choice.
Change and new ideas can be difficult to promote in an organization. For this reason, consultants can find that themselves spending the majority of their time defending solutions rather than designing or implementing them. Employers can help to alleviate this problem by ensuring that there is a stringent process in place to test the quality of the solution, but there is also a clear and decisive decision point where it is accepted and ratified or rejected.
What You Know
Understanding of business process
Expert technical knowledge
Understanding of IT strategy
Understanding of IT expenditure
What You Do
Analyze and write reports
Produce solutions
Document process
Identify efficiencies
Provide technical expertise
What You Are
A process oriented person
Diligent
Attentive
A great communicator
Thoughtful
Expected Pay Rate for an IT Consultant
Salary Range: US$55K - US$170K per year
(significant salary variation found accross different areas of expertise)
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50-79Level 4 =80-99
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