Trainee Consultant

You don’t have consulting experience today, but you’ve been a top performer throughout your academic career and everyone has always remarked on your powers of perception and insight, your intellectual curiosity, and your work ethic. You’re a quick study looking for something that’s worth investing talent and time into.

As a trainee consultant you will learn to:

• Conduct research and deliver data products (analysis, visualization, dynamic tools)
• Manage a variety of projects within a team setting
• Develop and maintain relationships with clients
• Facilitate and present ideas at client meetings
• Come up with creative solutions to help clients solve their most demanding and urgent global health and development challenges, effectively communicate their plans, and implement change
• A master’s degree is preferred, but not required
• Interest in global health and international development is a plus

This position is Seattle- or Washington, D.C.- based with a flexible WFH policy.

Linksbridge actively recruits and seeks candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. All applicants and employees enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to:

• Race or color
• Age
• Religion
• Pregnancy or sex
• Sexual orientation
• Disability
• Gender identity or gender expression
• National origin or genetic information
• Veteran status or marital status
• Prior protected activity

Linksbridge currently pays staff members annual salaries (2025) of:

• $81,034 to consultants
• $95,524 to senior consultants
• $115,763 to associates
• $144,717 to senior associates
• $173,644 to directors
• $202,597 to principals
• $231,525 to partners and our executive director

All permanent team members working at least 20 hours per week receive full benefits from day one of employment, or partial benefits if working fewer qualifying hours. Additional salary and benefits information is available on our website.

Recruitment process details

1. When you apply, you will be asked to offer details about yourself and your right-to-work in the United States. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future
2. Based on your initial application, you may then be asked to complete a global health consulting case study
3. Based on your initial application and case study, we may then invite you to a first round of interviews with team members who will ask you questions about your experience, motivation in applying, and findings from your case study. We're looking for evidence of your intellectual strengths, creativity, leadership qualities, and ability to work in a team
4. Successful applicants will then normally have a second round of interviews (focused on what you can bring to the team and what you would like to work on) before a decision is made about a potential offer

Please bear with us—everyone working on our recruitment is a project team member, so finding availability for the right interview experience can take time, e.g., team members best placed to meet with you and answer your questions.