This is a great time to join McREL International, where we’re blending half a century of global expertise and local knowledge with a work culture that honors creativity and collaboration.

At McREL, we co-develop educational services and solutions with our clients and partners. Using curiosity as our guide, we put our minds to work through research, program evaluation, data analysis, and studying best practices. Our clients are diverse, representing rural, suburban, and urban communities; indigenous, Native American, and First Nation communities; and school systems large and small. We also partner with other education companies and nonprofits, particularly with our research and program evaluation services.

McREL provides competitive compensation, benefits, and a flexible hybrid work environment. The annual full-time salary range for this position is $90,000-100,000.  We are proud to offer our employees a substantial benefits package including health, dental, vision, life and accident insurance, flexible spending accounts, and an employee assistance program. In addition, we offer a retirement savings plan with a significant employer contribution. We strive to support a work-life balance for our employees with a generous time-off policy including vacation, personal time, sick days, and paid holidays.

Equally important, we strive to live by our Core Values: Humble Expertise, Joyful Excellence, Compassionate Courage, Rigorous Ingenuity, and a Macro-Micro Focus. If you’re a curious person who wants to make a difference for educators and the families they serve, we’d like to hear from you!

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Managing Consultant is responsible for initiating, cultivating, and maintaining a portfolio of large-scale projects in the areas of consulting, development, and technical assistance. These activities are focused on the delivery and support of high-quality professional learning and capacity building for education professionals through face-to-face and remote, technology-enhanced means. In addition, the Managing Consultant seeks to proactively grow and cultivate a portfolio that reflects and integrates McREL’s range of services to provide coverage for self and junior staff. This includes responding to RFPs, effectively listening to and understanding client needs and desired outcomes, devising appropriate responses that address those needs and support attainment of those outcomes, and identifying and developing opportunities to offer new services to existing clients.

The Managing Consultant is responsible for mentoring and developing staff and may have direct supervision responsibilities. THIS POSITION REQUIRES FREQUENT NATIONAL TRAVEL AND OCCASIONAL INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL.

As a Managing Consultant, you will make an impact by:

• Managing a client portfolio typically consisting of large-scale projects that offer opportunities for Consulting Associates/Consultants to provide direct service to clients and build staff expertise.
• Maintaining and developing current and potential client relationships.
• Understanding McREL’s competitive value and articulating and discussing the range of McREL services, representing how McREL’s unique capabilities will align with the client’s needs and desired outcomes.
• Identifying opportunities for new business and additional products or services to existing clients, including RFP response and direct client outreach. Increasingly able to contribute to conceptualizing project designs.
• Preparing proposals and developing project work plans, timelines, and staffing resources needed to successfully support proposed projects.
• Leading existing projects to ensure delivery of high-quality results to clients that are on time and on budget.
• Managing project resources and shares progress and performance information with other managers and directors.
• Responding to internal and external requests in a timely matter, including, at times, during non-traditional business hours.
• Using research-based content and resources in consulting, professional learning, and technical assistance work.
• Contributing to activities (writing, speaking, presenting, conducting research) that elevate recognition as a leader in the field.
• Performing quality assurance activities such as reviewing bids and proposals and providing content expertise.
• Encouraging inter-departmental collaboration by being a role model, and leading initiatives to build departmental rapport.
• Proactively mentoring and developing staff.
• Partnering with other leaders to proactively provide and share feedback about staff performance.
• Proactively monitoring their own and others’ coverage, staying within allotted project hours, and alerting management to possible gaps in project coverage.
• Making decisions, performing, and encouraging others to act in a manner which is congruent with organizational goals, strategy, vision, mission, and values.
• Modeling and championing corporate policies, procedures, and processes.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong oral and written communication skills (including technical writing, small-group facilitation, and presentation skills).
• Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of significant issues in education.
• Knowledge of methodologies and methods of inquiry.
• Ability to apply research or evaluation theory.
• General knowledge of instrument design. Ability to create instruments based on extant ones.
• Ability to collect data using various approaches (focus groups, interviews, surveys).
• Ability to prepare complex data sets for analysis, including cleaning, aggregating, disaggregating, and recoding data.
• Advanced skill using SPSS (preferred), SAS, R, or MAXQDA, and online survey software.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• This position requires a minimum of master’s degree or equivalent.
  • Master’s degree with at least five years of relevant work experience in K–12 education as a teacher in a leadership role, administrator, central office staff, or consultant elsewhere.

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• Ph.D. with at least three years of relevant work experience in K–12 education as a teacher in a leadership role, administrator, central office staff, or consultant elsewhere.

• 1+ year of relevant business development experience (competitive grant writing, direct sales, etc.).

• 2+ years of large-scale project management.

PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Ph.D. with at least three years of relevant work experience in K–12 education as a teacher in a leadership role, administrator, central office staff, or consultant elsewhere.
• Supervision or mentorship experience.
• Previous consulting experience.
• Experience with large-scale competitive grant writing and responding to RFPs.

TRAVEL:

Must be willing and able to perform all national and international travel (including overnight and commercial airline travel) that is necessary to accomplish the essential functions of this position. TRAVEL FOR THIS POSITION IS ESTIMATED AT UP TO 60%.

In compliance with the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, staff must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 18, 2022. Proof of vaccination is required. Individuals may seek exemption from the vaccine requirement for medical reasons or sincerely held religious beliefs.

Applicants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with McREL International.

McREL International is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Required Skills Required Experience

REQUIRED EDUCATION

• Master's degree in one of several related degrees listed below.
• Also allowed, a Master's degree in any field, plus 18 graduate credits in one of the related degrees listed below.

RELATED DEGREE/DISCIPLINE: Spanish, or the following with an emphasis in Spanish - Curriculum and Instruction, Linguistics, Education, Languages and Culture degrees, Bilingual Education, Foreign Languages.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

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• Front Range Community College's alcohol and other drug policy
• VAWA policy
• Campus security policies
• Campus/community resources
• Where to find registered sex offender information
• Crime statistics for the previous three calendar years
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