Consulting Director, Higher Education Strategy & Operations, Digital Strategy

The Opportunity

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.

Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.

You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary

At Huron, Directors represent the pinnacle of professionalism and expertise. They effectively collaborate with Huron and client senior leaders to design and implement goal-achieving solutions while delivering remarkable results (ones that meet but usually exceed specified engagement objectives). Throughout the process, they construct enduring relationships that benefit the firm in profound ways including selling additional project work into clients.

Their talents and leadership instill passion and followership in clients, juniors, and management. So if you’re defined by ongoing progress—if you can lead teams, create solutions, and masterfully communicate on every level…If you’re a consummate professional, a prospective champion of Huron's core values, and an inspiration of confidence and trust… then you can and will—leave your mark on the future of consulting.

The Consulting Director, Higher Education -Digital strategy will drive digital strategy initiatives and delivering impactful solutions. This individual should have led relevant work in digital strategy relating to cloud strategy roadmap, data analytics/AI/ML, org restructure, governance etc.

Let’s get to work – together

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience

- Extensive experience driving digital strategy in professional services or higher education

- Leadership experience in driving/creating cloud strategy road maps

-Significant experience with data analytics/AI/ML

- Leadership experience with organization restructures, establishing governance etc.

- Experience with estimating, implementation planning, functional application expertise, and project management

- Excellent communication skills - oral and written - and the interpersonal skills needed quickly to establish relationships of trust and collaboration

- Ability to establish credibility in the eyes of senior-level, financially literate university and hospital executives on the basis of expertise, maturity, and professionalism

- Ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project-management and technical dimensions

- Ability to manage multiple projects of differing scale and duration

- Strong analytical skills used to translate information from meetings into documentation that can be shared with meeting participants and project teams

- Proven thought leadership as indicated by speaking engagements and/or publications a plus

Posting Category

Education

Opportunity Type

Regular

Country

United States of America