If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. The Lead Insights Consultant is responsible for generating, synthesizing, and translating deep insights on labor markets, workforce transformation, and the lived experiences of students and workers to inform institutional strategy and ventures.
Requirements
- Synthesize diverse data sources—including secondary research, primary studies, qualitative research, and social listening—to develop a comprehensive view of workforce dynamics, mobility, and opportunity.
- Analyze current and emerging career pathways, incorporating demographic, industry, and geographic variation to surface patterns, inequities, and points of intervention.
- Develop insight into task-level impacts of artificial intelligence, including skill erosion and emergence, changes in occupational structure, and patterns of human–machine collaboration.
- Examine how technological, economic, and social forces are reshaping the nature, meaning, and organization of work over time.
- Generate forward-looking perspectives that help the institution understand not just what is changing, but how and why those changes matter for talent and employers.
- Examine employer decision-making at the human level, including hiring, upskilling, and credential valuation practices.
- Partner with leaders within the Strategy & Ventures Group to ensure insights are appropriately applied across development and planning efforts.
- Adapt insights communication for diverse audiences, including senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external stakeholders, balancing rigor with accessibility.
- Translate complex research into compelling frameworks, visuals, and narratives that surface key implications, tensions, and open questions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
- Health savings account and flexible spending account
- Basic and voluntary life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
- Legal and identity theft coverage
- Retirement savings plan
- Wellbeing program
- Discounted WGU tuition
- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
- 11 paid holidays
- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave
