Principal Consultant

Education First is seeking an experienced leader to join the Accelerate Academic Coherence consulting team as a Principal Consultant. The Principal Consultant will shape and set strategy, cultivate strong partnerships, lead individual client engagements and contribute to the firm’s success and sustainability. They will apply their understanding of philanthropy and the current and future issues in the field to craft bodies of work and projects, bring in new relationships with funders and sell projects, lead services and projects that deliver immediate and long-term results, and contribute to thought leadership that extends the firm’s national reputation in these areas.

Requirements

• Extensive experience working within or alongside philanthropy to design, implement and/or advocate for successful education policies and high-value, high-leverage networks or communities of practice designed to improve pre-K-12 education outcomes
• Recent experience as an engaged funder or in AI
• Strong, inclusive project management and system-level strategy and planning experience, including juggling several complex projects at once, developing work plans, strategic plans, maintaining project budgets, managing risks and meeting deadlines and targets

Benefits

• 100% remote, U.S. based team
• Sales bonus opportunities
• Firmwide in-person engagements once a year
• Telework subsidy
• Professional development stipend
• Foundational Bonding and Parental Leave
• 20 PTO days, 11 holidays and two firmwide shutdown weeks
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• 401(k) match