at Huron Consulting Group in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
The Opportunity
Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance, and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. Huron’s GG+A global philanthropy business is one of the world’s pre-eminent philanthropic management consultancies. We have worked across the world, providing philanthropic counsel to the higher education, not-for-profit, healthcare, arts and cultural sectors.
Today, we help organizations realize the full potential of their missions through the growth of philanthropic support. Our primary mission is to assist our clients in the substantial improvement and acceleration of their fundraising and engagement programmes, seeking to align those programmes with the institution’s core mission and ensure their sustainability.
You’ll help our clients by providing a robust, data-informed strategy across the donor journey.
Position Summary
GG+A is a full-service philanthropic management consulting firm with 60 years of industry-defining leadership in helping our clients realize the full potential of their missions through the growth of philanthropic support. Our primary mission is to assist our clients in the substantial improvement and acceleration of their fundraising programs. We seek to align those programs with the institution’s core mission and ensure their sustainability.
GG+A is an international resource for data-driven best practices in all areas of advancement, including fundraising, engagement, communications, and advancement services. We provide counsel to a global constituency of nonprofits, specifically in the areas of higher education, academic medicine/healthcare, independent schools, arts, and culture, select humanitarian institutions, and a range of charities and nonprofit organizations.
GG+A embodies a high-performance and entrepreneurial culture. We are client-centric, rigorous, creative, and data-driven in our practices, and committed to responding swiftly and effectively to client needs and requirements. We offer a challenging environment and seek intelligent, energetic, and self-motivated individuals who are achievement-oriented and have high integrity.
Qualifications
Job Description
The Analyst, Project Support you will provide critical structure for and support the overall vision of assigned projects and data-driven studies. You are responsible for overseeing and directing multiple complex projects at a time, ensuring that these studies are delivered in a timely manner while meeting and exceeding Huron| GG+A standards. .The Analyst, Project Support are typically assigned more complex and higher profile projects, often driven by Practice Area Leaders or Executive Leadership. This is an onsite position.
A successful candidate in this role will have the following credentials:
+ Bachelor’s degree required
+ Experience in higher education, nonprofit, or fundraising required
+ Experience and demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint require
+ Key Responsibilities of the Role: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.
+ Demonstrate Huron| GG+A’s mission, vision and values
+ Provide advanced coordination to client team projects under the direction of the lead project Consultant(s); may be asked to manage and oversee the work of Project Managers or Project Associates assigned to the client project team and coordinate the work of other consultants and staff
+ Serve as the primary liaison for the client, providing guidance, responding to client questions and concerns, and flagging issues for project lead(s) as appropriate
+ Provide administrative support on study projects, including drafting request for materials documents; developing study manuals; assisting in the development of questionnaires; coordinating documents; assisting with itineraries, background, and interview materials; and providing overall coordination of tasks for study projects, which may include directing Project Associates in this work
+ Take a leadership role in developing and editing final reports and presentations, assuring the firm’s best-in-class quality standards
+ Take a leadership role in client data compilation projects, including design of survey instruments, data collection, graphic representation, and report design
+ Access appropriate internal and external data via website or other sources in order to create relevant tables and charts
+ Prepare and maintain timelines, organizational charts, and project spreadsheets
+ Oversee the Project Manager or Project Associate in the preparation of correspondence and documents for client projects, including standardization, formatting, production, assembly, and mailing.
+ Collaborate and communicate with team members
+ Discuss project deadlines with other Huron|GG+A colleagues as part of the project team and ensures that work is prioritized appropriately
+ Manage time well to ensure availability to meet project team’s expectations for work assignments
+ Take proactive role in communicating assignment deadlines to team members and ensuring deliverables are prepared and submitted within determined timeframe
+ Include work colleagues in best practice advances
+ Ensure deliverables follow Huron|GG+A style, format, and best practices’ standards.
+ Share knowledge in technical skill areas with work colleagues, making a positive change and measurable difference to GG+A and client projects
+ Participate and lead onboarding for new consulting and Consulting Resources staff, as well as internal professional development sessions
+ Maintain helpful, positive approach; contribute to an efficient, collegial working environment.
+ Flexible hours may be required to accommodate global clients
+ Communication and Relationship Skills
+ Demonstrate the mission, vision, values, and culture principles of HCG|GG+A
+ Ability to establish, cultivate and nurture high value relationships across the organization, and with clients
+ Demonstrate motivated initiative with a “can-do” approach for results-oriented outcomes
+ Demonstrated pride in teamwork and outcomes
+ Demonstrate professional interpersonal skills
+ Ability to provide highly valued client-service and leadership for both internal and external clients, with focus on continual improvement
+ Ability to read and comprehend complex instructions given from written and oral sources
+ Ability to write sophisticated correspondence
+ Ability to effectively present information to top management, clients, employees, the public
+ Demonstrated clear and concise written and verbal communication
+ Demonstrated comfort presenting to internal and external stakeholders
+ Desirable traits: Overachiever, flexible, ability to switch priorities, speed and accuracy
+ Ability to read, write, speak and comprehend English fluently
+ Math and Analytic Skills
+ Data analysis and strong experience developing visual depictions of data trends
+ Ability to understand mathematical relationships and formulas
+ Ability to manage and track budgets
+ Reasoning Ability
+ Ability to work independently and know when to seek guidance from leadership
+ Ability to work under pressure to meet exacting deadlines
+ Demonstrated ability to use diplomacy and tact in all communication, written and verbal
+ Ability to identify problems and determine the best course of action for their resolution, including knowing when to communicate and engage others
+ Ability to think analytically and proactively solve problems
+ Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple projects demo
