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Principal Consultant

7 hours, 43 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
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Education First

Education First

Education First is a mission-driven education strategy and policy firm that assists leaders in innovating and developing equitable and inclusive initiatives to enhance student outcomes in a rapidly evolving educational landscape.

Professional Services
51-250
Founded 2006
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Description

  • Shape team strategy and contribute to the firm’s success, sustainability, and national thought leadership.
  • Lead individual client engagements as project director and oversee delivery against excellence standards.
  • Advise, coach, and support executives in philanthropy, school systems, state education agencies, and nonprofits.
  • Develop tools and strategies to assess client needs, synthesize research, and solve client problems.
  • Support funders with investment strategies, plans, and grantee communities of practice.
  • Help innovators reimagine organizational and institutional structures through equitable design.
  • Support system leaders in reducing silos and advancing coherence across school systems, regions, states, and organizations.
  • Travel to meet with clients and facilitate engagements that contribute to project deliverables.
  • Manage project operations including budgeting, planning, reporting, and feedback loops.
  • Cultivate client relationships, contribute to proposals, create public-facing content, and support business development.
  • Mentor, guide, and manage team members while supporting inclusive and high-performing project teams.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience working within or alongside philanthropy on education policy, implementation, advocacy, or high-value networks/communities of practice for pre-K-12 outcomes.
  • Recent experience as an engaged funder or in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
  • Ability to convert a strong network of education leaders and content expertise into new work, sales, and field impact.
  • Demonstrated urgency in accomplishing complex work and implementing change across systems, organizations, and institutions.
  • National perspective on the U.S. K-12 education system and how it connects with early education, higher education, and workforce development.
  • Commitment to educational equity, including willingness to examine privilege, structural barriers, and inclusion.
  • Strong inclusive project management and systems-level strategy/planning experience across multiple complex projects.
  • Experience developing work plans, strategic plans, managing budgets, mitigating risks, and meeting deadlines and targets.
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity and create clear structures that deliver high-quality results.
  • Comfort giving and receiving feedback and leading through influence with strong communication skills.
  • Consulting, technical assistance, or strategy development experience preferred.
  • Master’s degree or equivalent experience in public policy, public administration, business, education, Juris Doctor, or a related field preferred.

Benefits

  • 100% remote, U.S.-based team.
  • Sales bonus opportunities, with average annual bonuses of $32,000 for Principal Consultants.
  • Location-based salary supplement of 1-5% for employees in higher cost-of-living cities.
  • 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.

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