Education Strategy Consulting Specialist II chez CannonDesign
CannonDesign · Denver, États-Unis d'Amérique · Onsite
- Professional
- Bureau à Denver
- Contribute to a robust and successful Education Consulting practice, helping to Identify & source strategic consulting opportunities that leverage Blue Cottage and CannonDesign services to bring value and benefit to our clients
- Create meaningful, long-term relationships with education clients and internal partners through excellence, integrity, and reliability
- Support strategy and planning work for both small and large-scale projects across various multi-year and multi-phased efforts.
- Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, the issues they face, and partner with Blue Cottage and CannonDesign leaders to expand services within the Education market. You will wow our clients through fantastic work and continue to differentiate our service offering in the marketplace
- Provide oversight and lead high-performing teams from pre-positioning to pursuit to close
- Develop service capabilities and tools that provide long-term recurring value to our practice and our clients, leveraging research and evidence-driven solutions
- Develop and implement education market initiatives and client development strategies, in collaboration with Blue Cottage and CannonDesign education leaders
- Build on our living-centered design mindset and capabilities as a firm, allowing our approach to problem solving to be deeply embedded in human-centered strategies that reflect community impact, social impact, operational needs and financial parameters
- Support the creation of work plans and project approach for pursuits
- Promote thought leadership, present at national conferences, publish case studies/papers in journals, and develop an admirable network.
- Play a meaningful role in firm leadership by enabling professional development, mentoring, team leadership, and recruiting.
- Travel is required, as necessitated by clients and your role
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in consulting, operations, or leadership applied in the education setting, preferably at the college and university level.
- Experience and demonstrated knowledge of capital planning, project governance structures and funding approaches, and the political nature of high investment projects, especially those that are publicly funded with public bonds, taxpayer revenue, federal or state grants or allocations.
- Acumen and ability to conduct capital project financial feasibility studies for building or campus master planning projects.
- Business Development experience and proven ability to leverage wide professional network of individuals that will help communicate our value and grow our brand and revenue.
- Ability to manage a team and understanding of the business model of consulting including consulting workplans, strategic pursuits, management of consulting P+L, understanding of project margin optimization, quality control of deliverables, etc.
- Must demonstrate creativity in approach, think critically about our approach and our work and demonstrate effective results.
- Must have the ability to work independently, be detail-oriented and to manage multiple projects effectively.
- Commitment to exceptional work in every single interaction, every single day.
- Intense curiosity, systems thinking, and dedication to high impact outcomes.
- We are a start-up culture in an established firm: nimble, energetic, innovative and fun.
- We are relentless in our pursuit of client adoration (not simply satisfaction). Consistent delivery of the best service is what we are about.
- We are committed to ensuring our practice provides equal opportunities for all employees, as we strive to connect with communities around us and focus on the future of design. We support equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts that benefit all employees through the leadership of our DEI Council, our Employee Resource Groups which are open to everyone, and other community initiatives.
- We’re about communication and transparency here. If you want to talk to someone about an idea you have, or a challenge that needs addressing, we’re ready for you.