RoDa Business Solutions Strategic Foresight SME Remote · Contractor

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RoDa Business Solution (RoDa) is an award-winning, national, ISO 9001:2015 Certified, women and veteran-owned service provider with more than 40 years of experience in the Federal, Military, and Commercial Marketplaces.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and facilitating strategic foresight activities as part of an organizational strategic planning process.
• Conducting environmental scanning and identifying emerging trends, risks, opportunities, and potential disruptors.
• Supporting development of future scenarios and alternative future-state considerations.
• Translating foresight findings into strategic priorities, goals, decisions, and implementation considerations.
• Integrating quantitative and qualitative research with stakeholder perspectives.
• Facilitating discussions with executives, employees, governing boards, customers, community representatives, and/or other stakeholders.
• Advising the project team on established foresight frameworks, methodologies, and tools.
• Contributing to strategic planning reports, presentations, recommendations, and multi-year implementation roadmaps.
• Collaborating with the broader consulting team throughout research, engagement, strategy development, and implementation planning.

Required Qualifications

• Significant professional experience in strategic foresight, futures thinking, scenario planning, or related future-focused strategy work.
• Experience applying strategic foresight methodologies within an actual organizational, governmental, utility, infrastructure, or corporate setting.
• Experience connecting foresight findings to strategic planning, organizational priorities, or long-range decision-making.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder-engagement skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information and communicate findings to executive and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong written communication and consulting skills.
• Experience working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary consulting team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with a power/electric utility, drinking-water utility, public utility, energy organization, or infrastructure organization.
• Experience supporting public-sector or governing-board strategic planning.
• Experience facilitating scenario-planning or futures workshops with executive leadership.
• Formal education, certification, or professional training in strategic foresight, futures studies, scenario planning, strategic planning, or a related discipline.
• Experience developing multi-year strategic implementation roadmaps.
• Experience incorporating community, customer, employee, and Board perspectives into future-state planning.

Important Resume Requirements

Because resumes may be included in a competitive proposal, applicants should ensure their resume clearly documents the experience described above.

Your resume should include:

• Month and year for relevant positions and consulting engagements.
• Organization/client name and your role.
• Clear descriptions of strategic foresight, futures thinking, scenario planning, environmental scanning, or related work you personally performed.
• Specific examples of strategic plans, foresight initiatives, scenarios, future-state analyses, or implementation roadmaps developed or supported.
• Types of stakeholders engaged or facilitated.
• Any experience with electric utilities, power organizations, drinking-water organizations, energy, infrastructure, or public agencies.
• Education and relevant certifications or specialized training.

In your resume, clearly identify the applicable power, electric, water, energy, or infrastructure organization(s).

Please do not rely solely on broad terms such as “strategy,” “planning,” or “organizational development.” The resume should make your specific strategic foresight experience readily identifiable.