Engagement Manager – Consulting, Strategy

Role Overview

• Serve as day-to-day engagement lead for designated clients, ensuring strong execution, responsiveness, and relationship quality
• Facilitate client meetings, focus groups, and working sessions that produce clarity, alignment, and forward movement
• Lead development of workplans, engagement pacing, and client-facing project structure
• Develop clear memos, presentations, and decision-support materials that translate analysis into actionable recommendations
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis with self-direction, including operational, financial, policy, and service design analysis
• Scope methodologies for analyses and guide analytical work completed by analysts and other team members
• Review analyses completed by others to assess logical, technical, or interpretive choices
• Interpret findings, identify the core data story, and shape executive-level implications
• Translate client challenges into operationally realistic solution designs
• Support effective implementation—and business development—by helping clients move from recommendation to action through practical sequencing, operating models, and decision frameworks
• Coordinate across consulting and managed services teams when engagements involve both advisory and operational components
• Contribute to proposal development, scope design, and expansion opportunities within existing client relationships
• Support development of consulting methods, templates, and repeatable internal practices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in public policy, education, economics, engineering, business, or related field (Master’s preferred)
• Five (5) or more years of relevant experience in consulting, education strategy, operations, analytics, or professional services
• Experience managing projects and leading client-facing workstreams
• Experience conducting and interpreting quantitative analysis in operational or policy settings
• Experience in K–12 education, transportation, logistics, or public sector work preferred
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides
• Basic proficiency in Python; strong proficiency in a coding language
• Proficiency working with data visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau
• Experience structuring analyses across multiple data sources
• Ability to review technical analytical outputs for quality and logic
• Proficiency using AI tools to improve analytical efficiency, written synthesis, and workflow quality
• Experience leading process design and continuous improvement
• Familiarity with route design and optimization concepts
• Experience integrating SIS platforms with other data systems via SFTP/API preferred
• Client leadership: Builds trust quickly and manages client interactions with maturity and clarity.
• Problem solving: Able to move beyond producing analysis to defining the right analytical question and interpreting implications. Diagnoses ambiguous problems and develops practical paths forward.
• Communication: Simplifies complex findings into compelling executive narratives. Exhibits strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to engage diverse stakeholders clearly and professionally.
• Implementation mindset: Designs recommendations that are operationally realistic and actionable. Maintains consistent focus on the overarching purpose of an engagement, ensuring deliverables meet client needs while considering the user experience and perspective.
• Judgment: Balances rigor, speed, and practicality across changing client conditions. Takes initiative, working independently with minimal supervision. Effectively manages and prioritizes multiple tasks.

Tech Stack

• Python
• Tableau

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance