Sr. Advisor, Education Technology

Public Consulting Group•Boston, MA

23h•$115,000 - $175,000•Remote

About The Position

The Sr. Advisor provides leadership, vision, and guidance to a PCG team for business growth in technology solution and consulting for the PCG Education practice area. Our Education team offers consulting services and technology solutions to help schools, school districts, and state education agencies/ministries of education promote student success, improve programs and processes, and optimize financial resources. We work with clients to ensure all students have what they need to succeed.

Requirements

Subject matter expertise in public education agency technology arena.
Strong leadership, assertiveness, and interpersonal skills.
Able to lead teams to sell and deliver services and solutions.
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in a cross-functional capacity.
Objective decision-making ability based on strategic priorities, business performance analysis and resource availability.
Self-starter, assertive, enthusiastic and has the political savvy to get things done, yet maintain a likeable presence. Ability to deal with adversity and differing opinions.
Bachelor’s degree required.
15+ years of combined experience in public education agencies and the private sector, with progressively increasing leadership responsibility and demonstrated success in developing, bidding, and winning management consulting engagements.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or professional equivalent highly preferred.
Expertise in government and education technology is preferred.

Responsibilities

Responsible for providing expertise in identification of revenue opportunities in Education agency data ingestion process including reporting and other technology services.
Provides public education agency expertise and knowledge to lead a team and assist in technology and strategic planning towards solutions and business development.
Analyzes existing public education agency technology markets to identify potential areas of opportunity.
Leverages existing client networks and relationships to build future business opportunities and solution offerings.
Establishes good working relationships with federal, state agency as well as private sector solution firms.
Leads conference and speaking engagement strategy.
Other tasks as to be determined by PCG management.