Consultant

**_Are you passionate about solving society’s toughest problems?_**
**_Are you attracted to the analytical rigor of strategy consulting?_**
**_Are you looking for a team-based working environment where your colleagues would share your passion for social impact?_**
If you answered “yes” to all of these questions, we invite you to explore the Consultant role with The Bridgespan Group.
**About The Bridgespan Group**
The Bridgespan Group is the leading nonprofit consulting organization serving ambitious nonprofit leaders, philanthropists, and impact investors. We work with social change organizations such as the CAMFED, World Vision, and Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO); philanthropies such as the Ford Foundation; and impact investors. Like our clients, we are passionate about breaking cycles of poverty and ensuring core human and civil rights. We value diversity, passion, respect, candor, and most of all having social impact and working towards societies characterized by equity and justice. If you want to work with the market leader that bridges the worlds of game-changing philanthropists, social change leaders, and impact investors, then Bridgespan is the place for you.
**About the Consultant Position**
Consultants play an important role at Bridgespan, working to provide nonprofit and philanthropy clients with powerful data, analyses, and strategies that allow them to increase their impact. Consultants, as members of case teams, develop independent work plans and take ownership for significant portions of client work. To facilitate the development of strong client relationships, Consultants are often partnered with members of the client team. It is expected that Consultants will quickly assume team and client leadership responsibilities.
**Responsibilities and Duties**
- Plan and manage work modules that address core strategic issues for clients
- Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Gather data through interviews and secondary research
- Generate creative, action-oriented insights and recommendations
- Facilitate joint problem-solving sessions with mid-level and senior-level clients
- Write and deliver high-impact presentations and plans
- Work with clients to implement recommendations
- Contribute to Bridgespan’s knowledge capture, creation and dissemination
- Take on lead roles to support internal office culture and team building activities

The Bridgespan Group invests deeply in the training and development of each Consultant. While most of the training is on the job, Consultants attend formalized training sessions throughout their career at Bridgespan, beginning with an extensive orientation program. As the consultant progresses, there are training programs to develop specific and deeper consulting skills. At critical junctures, Bridgespan consultants attend sessions with Bain staff at Bain & Company training events. Bridgespan is committed to helping each Consultant build the fundamentals of a successful consulting career through thoughtful and continuous training and learning opportunities focused on leadership and analytical skills.
At this time we are unable to provide any visa sponsorship for this position.
**Qualifications**
- Excellent analytical skills, creativity in problem solving, and a keen business sense demonstrated in a professional environment
- Strong communicator—both verbal and written
- Well-rounded interpersonal skills demonstrating the capacity to build strong senior client relationships, work effectively in a team environment, and facilitate joint problem solving with clients and a team
- Self-motivated and willing to proactively take on leadership roles within project teams and the firm
- Demonstrated passion and commitment to working in the social sector and on society’s most important challenges