Serve as day-to-day engagement lead for designated clients, ensuring strong execution, responsiveness, and relationship quality
Facilitate client meetings, focus groups, and working sessions that produce clarity, alignment, and forward movement
Lead development of workplans, engagement pacing, and client-facing project structure
Develop clear memos, presentations, and decision-support materials that translate analysis into actionable recommendations
Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis with self-direction, including operational, financial, policy, and service design analysis
Scope methodologies for analyses and guide analytical work completed by analysts and other team members
Review analyses completed by others to assess logical, technical, or interpretive choices
Interpret findings, identify the core data story, and shape executive-level implications
Translate client challenges into operationally realistic solution designs
Support effective implementation—and business development—by helping clients move from recommendation to action through practical sequencing, operating models, and decision frameworks
Coordinate across consulting and managed services teams when engagements involve both advisory and operational components
Contribute to proposal development, scope design, and expansion opportunities within existing client relationships
Support development of consulting methods, templates, and repeatable internal practices

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in public policy, education, economics, engineering, business, or related field (Master’s preferred)
Five (5) or more years of relevant experience in consulting, education strategy, operations, analytics, or professional services
Experience managing projects and leading client-facing workstreams
Experience conducting and interpreting quantitative analysis in operational or policy settings
Experience in K–12 education, transportation, logistics, or public sector work preferred
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides
Basic proficiency in Python; strong proficiency in a coding language
Proficiency working with data visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau
Experience structuring analyses across multiple data sources
Ability to review technical analytical outputs for quality and logic
Proficiency using AI tools to improve analytical efficiency, written synthesis, and workflow quality
Experience leading process design and continuous improvement
Familiarity with route design and optimization concepts
Experience integrating SIS platforms with other data systems via SFTP/API preferred
Client leadership: Builds trust quickly and manages client interactions with maturity and clarity.
Problem solving: Able to move beyond producing analysis to defining the right analytical question and interpreting implications. Diagnoses ambiguous problems and develops practical paths forward.
Communication: Simplifies complex findings into compelling executive narratives. Exhibits strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to engage diverse stakeholders clearly and professionally.
Implementation mindset: Designs recommendations that are operationally realistic and actionable. Maintains consistent focus on the overarching purpose of an engagement, ensuring deliverables meet client needs while considering the user experience and perspective.
Judgment: Balances rigor, speed, and practicality across changing client conditions. Takes initiative, working independently with minimal supervision. Effectively manages and prioritizes multiple tasks.

Benefits

401(k)
Dental insurance
Flexible schedule
Health insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Vision insurance

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

quantitative analysisqualitative analysisproject managementdata visualizationPythonMicrosoft ExcelGoogle SheetsMicrosoft PowerPointGoogle SlidesSIS integration

Soft Skills

client leadershipproblem solvingcommunicationimplementation mindsetjudgmentrelationship managementanalytical thinkingteam coordinationdecision-makingadaptability