Senior Consultant

🕒 May 19

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Education First Consulting

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

Education • Consulting

Education First Consulting is a mission-driven strategy and policy organization focused on improving education for all students, particularly those furthest from opportunity. The company is dedicated to helping clients create more equitable, inclusive, and people-focused initiatives and strategies that enhance educational systems, teaching professions, and postsecondary success. With a team of seasoned advisors, Education First partners with education stakeholders, including system leaders, educators, funders, and nonprofits, to navigate the complexities of public education and implement effective solutions that prepare students for success in college, careers, and life. The organization emphasizes the importance of high-quality education as a key factor in improving the prospects of young people.

📋 Description

• Successfully manage complex projects, including building capacity in and advising clients, developing and maintaining project workplans, monitoring team members’ experiences and developing (or co-developing with others) project deliverables that meet the firm’s quality standards • Understand root causes of the problems clients are trying to solve, design with and for people most proximate to those problems and deliver equitable, effective and innovative solutions to clients’ challenges • Develop and execute on project work plans according to client needs and budget constraints • Adapt project plans to reflect changes in project requirements • Coordinate knowledge management across streams of work • Produce client deliverables, including landscape analyses, written reports and memos, and facilitation plans for convening and communities of practice • Develop trusting relationships with high-profile clients in the education field (funders, school districts, nonprofits, SEAs, etc.) and support district, organizational and state teams in ways that lead to repeat business. • Design and facilitate effective client meetings that reflect an understanding of adult learning principles, advance project outcomes and support client decisionmaking • Capture and share project insights for clients and for the firm internally • Design and deploy technical assistance to clients • Collaborate on the development of tools and strategies to assess client needs • Stay up to date on the latest policy trends and research in K12 systems, and lift up relevant insights and emerging best practices for clients • Build and lead inclusive project teams where members experience professional growth and both invite and receive balanced feedback from each other • Develop systems, routines and workplans that support collaboration and trust among team members • Coach and support your colleagues’ professional growth by diagnosing areas for development and providing project-embedded feedback

🎯 Requirements

• You have experience designing and implementing for successful education policies designed to improve P-20 education outcomes for young people, in settings including school districts, education reform organizations, foundations, and state boards/departments of education • You can demonstrate strong, inclusive project management experience, including the ability to juggle several complex projects at once, develop work plans, maintain project budgets, manage risks, and meet deadlines and targets • You have the ability to synthesize complex ideas from technical literature and qualitative research into a clear storyline for reports and presentations; ability to identify the key and relevant “so what” findings and advice for clients from data and research • You have demonstrated experience managing people, especially those at different points in their careers and from diverse backgrounds • You can demonstrate proficiency with AI in your work (e.g., identifying appropriate use cases for AI, apply AI tools to improve efficiency and quality of work product, integrate AI into project workflows, exercise sound judgment about responsible AI use) and can support or coach others to use AI as well • You have a working knowledge about the key trends in public education and AI, the common tools used in school systems, and how AI-generated insights can inform instructional design and professional learning • You possess strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence • You are a strong communicator through verbal and written mediums • You have deep facilitation experience with a range of stakeholder groups and clients • You are skilled at building well-organized and creating compelling client-facing PowerPoint presentations • You can lead through ambiguity to create clear structures that deliver high-quality results to clients • You take initiative to resourcefully solve problems while anticipating and adjusting for the unexpected • You provide and receive feedback with ease • You lead by influence – establishing open lines of communication and understanding and including the perspectives of others

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote, U.S.-based team • Sales bonus opportunities • Firmwide in-person engagements once a year • Telework subsidy • Professional development stipend • Foundational Bonding and Parental Leave • 20 PTO days, 11 holidays and two firmwide shutdown weeks • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance • 401(k) match