Education Strategy Consulting Specialist II

If you think your skills, experience and aspirations make you a good match for this position, we encourage you to apply.   ABOUT THE ROLE The Education Strategy Consulting Specialist will partner across consulting and with design teams to pursue and deliver projects to educational organizations, technical/vocational schools, community colleges, and/or universities.    HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL DO

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.

  HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED The salary range for this position to be filled in the Denver, CO area is $159,500 to $199,400 annually. This salary range is the range we believe is the anticipated range of possible base compensation at the timing of the posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the anticipated salary range for the position. Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses. We offer a full benefit package including medical, dental and vision coverage and flexible spending account options and voluntary insurances. We have paid time off, flex-time summer hours, remote work options and a 401k plan and employee perk programs. For a general overview of our benefits, please visit our careers page at https://www.cannondesign.com/careers/benefits. Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level.   ABOUT OUR FIRM Blue Cottage of CannonDesign is an industry-leading consulting firm. Our team works with organizational leaders to define their ideal future and plan processes, organizational strategies, equipment and facilities to create an ideal future, and our projects are anchored by any of the following services: strategic transformation, design thinking, space and functional programming, operational planning, change management, and transition and activation planning.   ABOUT WORKING HERE

• 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.

  Please note that candidates can only apply to our positions on our company Careers site. It's not uncommon for scammers to create positions that look legitimate on other sites; never enter your information or apply for CannonDesign positions on any platform. Should an issue arise that you feel we should be aware of, please contact us. Please provide your resume and portfolio when applying.   As a condition of employment, all employees are expected to complete mandatory training, including compliance training, within required timeframes and adhere to our internal policies and our Code of Conduct.   CannonDesign is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CannonDesign is committed to maintaining a work environment that is free from any and all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment. It is therefore the firm’s policy to prohibit discrimination and harassment against any applicant, CannonDesign employee, vendor, contractor, or client on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. It is also CannonDesign’s policy to prohibit any and all forms of retaliation against any individual who has complained of harassing or discriminatory conduct, or participated in a firm or agency investigation into such complaints.