Education First Consulting

Consultant

• 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

Senior Consultant