Education Consulting Manager, Risk and Compliance Solutions

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.

Huron’s Education & Research practice is seeking a Manager to join our growing Risk & Compliance solution. This role supports colleges and universities, academic medical centers, health systems, research institutes, and other mission‑driven organizations in navigating complex regulatory, operational, and governance challenges. Managers lead client engagements focused on institutional compliance, governance, enterprise risk management, regulatory investigations, and related compliance functions. Successful candidates bring strong project leadership skills, executive presence, and subject matter expertise in one or more areas of regulatory compliance and organizational risk management.

Managers are responsible for leading project work streams, supervising consulting teams, developing client relationships, and helping institutions design and implement sustainable compliance and governance frameworks.

• Lead consulting projects related to compliance program effectiveness, governance, enterprise risk management, and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with client staff and leadership and implement comprehensive solutions to improve organizational structures, policies, controls, governance models, and operational practices.
• Facilitate executive interviews, stakeholder workshops, and governance discussions with institutional leadership.
• Support institutions in responding to regulatory inquiries, audits, investigations, and emerging compliance requirements.
• Develop actionable recommendations, implementation roadmaps, and future‑state operating models.
• Support project teams in evaluating regulatory, compliance, governance, and operational risks associated with strategic affiliations, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other partnership arrangements.
• Advise institutional leaders on compliance implications associated with emerging strategic initiatives, collaborations, and expansion opportunities.
• Manage project teams, mentor junior staff, and ensure quality delivery of engagement work products.
• Contribute to business development efforts through proposal development, thought leadership, and client relationship management.

• Strong consulting, project leadership, and relationship management skills with the ability to engage effectively with executive leadership, compliance professionals, attorneys, and university and healthcare stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex initiatives or assessments, facilitating stakeholder discussions, and managing multidisciplinary project teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive‑level presentations and…