Consultant - Education

Description

What you'll be working on

• Performing desk research, data analysis, and stakeholder interviews to understand and document the project context
• Perform research and capacity-building activities focused on improving understanding of the K-12 market (and beyond) for products and services
• Finding and synthesizing relevant research
• Working with a diversity of stakeholders to situate the project context and identify stakeholder needs
• Adapting proprietary and third-party data-gathering instruments to uncover systemic and behavioral challenges in education
• Generating hypotheses and validating them through targeted fieldwork
• Analyzing and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative findings to answer core questions
• Prioritizing findings and distilling key insights by collaborating with other consultants and directors to produce client-facing deliverables
• Creating and delivering workshops and other skill-building activities with stakeholders
• Presenting findings to internal and client stakeholder groups; including funders and project partners,
• Producing reports that highlight key insights in user-friendly ways
• Guiding junior team members, including associates, to support the above activities

What we are looking for

• Experience: 2+ years experience in a role in either the for-profit or non-profit sector working on issues related to education and equity, preferably in the U.S. K-12 education sector. The ideal candidate will have worked on any or all of the above: system-level education issues, K12 market dynamics, and capacity building with actors in the education system.
• Analytic Rigor: You are committed to using rigorous testing to decide what the right course of action is rather than relying on intuition; a good grasp of qualitative and quantitative methods, experimental design, and statistics is a plus, including awareness of the considerations of scaling interventions in education contexts.
• Business Sense: You are a holistic, strategic thinker who constantly connects the dots between ideas, problems, organizations, and how ethical & sustained impact can be achieved; strong verbal & written skills are a must
• Culture: You are an independent thinker comfortable working in an often ambiguous and dynamic environment

About the role

• Type: Permanent position
• Hybrid - 2 days a week in Montreal office
• Seniority level and responsibility for this role scale based on candidate experience, on a case-by-case basis.