The Consultant/Senior Consultant provides direct service to a variety of nonprofit clients with critical missions primarily serving the Higher Education, Healthcare, Independent School, and Social & Global Impact Sectors. This position provides strategic advice and hands-on implementation in order to partner with clients to accomplish stated goals and exceed client expectations.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Commitment to the firm’s core values, its “one firm-firm” brand and Our Why
- Serving as a model for Graham-Pelton’s “responsible consulting” approach
- Facilitate key relationships with clients and Graham-Pelton colleagues
- Facilitate key relationships with colleagues assigned to the project
- Demonstrate proficiency in the firm’s technological tools
- Prepare, develop and deliver materials for client engagement
- Provide on-site and off-site service to assigned clients
- Facilitate and lead regular team and client conference calls, meetings and coordinate team’s work
- Attend and participate in key meetings with clients and prospective clients
- Organize and drive work of internal project teams, ensuring progress toward project milestones and completion
- Work with project teams to ensure client-related communication is meeting the firm’s objectives
- Provide strategic counsel to advance the service engagement
- Provide critical support of sales activities
- Spot opportunities for continued service / new engagements, leveraging personal and client referrals
Required Skills:
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written
- Exercises emotional intelligence, sound strategic judgment and a certain amount of “grit” to manage client objectives and deliverables
- Initiative and Ingenuity: leverage resources to solve problems ability to manage multiple competing priorities and employ critical thinking skills
- Operates with high attention to detail and discipline
- Ability to be self-directed and a resourceful learner
- Ability to exert influence over others; commands respect of clients and colleagues
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment and industry
- Ability to thrive on change, innovation, and teamwork
- Driven by quality of work and high achievement
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
- Minimum of 5 years of previous nonprofit fundraising or development experience in one of Graham-Pelton's primary sectors of Healthcare, Higher Education, Independent Schools, or Social & Global Impact
- Willingness to travel (driver’s license required)
- Remote position located in New England