Associate Consultant (TCCG

TCC Group seeks an energetic self-starter with an analytical mind and a collaborative spirit to join TCC Group as a full-time Associate Consultant in our New York City Office, with flexibility on start-up location due to COVID-19.

As our client engagements are dynamic, diverse skills and tasks are required depending on the nature of the Associate Consultant’s projects. The Associate Consultant will contribute to the initiative design, project management, and execution of services we provide our clients. S/he/they will also support the firm’s Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT) management. Typical duties and responsibilities might include:

• Work closely with Project Lead to define project scope; manage and track scope on a weekly basis.
• Manage project execution through inception, launch, data collection, synthesis and decision-making, implementation, closeout, debrief and periodic follow up with client.
• Manage contracts, expense tracking, and updates to revenue projections throughout project duration.
• Coordinate client relationships and maintain regular communication (i.e., phone, email) with client project liaison.
• Collaboratively identify project needs and/or challenges, and work with TCC Project Lead to resolve them.

Data Collection and Analysis:

• Review and summarize secondary data (e.g., research reports, organizational audits, strategic exploration, and/or program materials, governance and organizational charts, grantee reports, evaluation studies, etc.), highlighting salient components.
• Conduct interviews and focus groups with client stakeholders to understand key themes, opportunities, and challenges facing clients.
• Synthesize and analyze notes from interviews and focus groups, identifying key takeaways and communicating findings to team members.
• Support survey administration, data management, and analysis.
• Conduct qualitative data analysis and quantitative data analysis using Excel, SPSS or other relevant tools, as necessary.
• Support team in identifying emerging themes and developing framework for decision-making for key client retreats

Communications & Deliverable Development:

• Draft, revise, and format client reports, presentations, memos, and correspondence using email, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Produce visual representations of research findings, such as Excel charts, PowerPoint slide decks, Airtable, and infographics.
• Coordinate and facilitate meetings with nonprofit boards, staff, and other stakeholders in person or virtually using tools like Miro interactive whiteboards.

Business Development and Cross-Team Collaboration

• Support/participate in sales meetings for potential clients.
• Draft proposals, scopes and workplans for prospective engagements.
• Represent firm at conferences and events.
• Contribute to team and organization’s growth by innovating our approaches, systems, operations and processes.

Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT) Management

• Manage CCAT administration and cohort communication for a variety of clients.
• Interface with CCAT platform partners to ensure ongoing operations are running smoothly and being administered successfully to clients.
• Oversee CCAT Facilitator Training process twice a year, preparing relevant materials, managing communications, and supporting TCC Training Lead.

Desired Skills and Background

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required; graduate degree in relevant field preferred.
• Deep knowledge of and experience in the social sector. The ideal candidate has philanthropic, nonprofit or consulting experience, and has worked closely with nonprofits in the past.
• Strongly preferred
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant work (i.e., project management, strategy, qualitative research, and organizational development) ideally in a relevant field (philanthropy or nonprofit management).
• History of work with diverse communities and across social, economic and cultural differences.

Qualifications:

• Commitment to firm mission-driven values:
  Commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and progressive social change.
• Project management skills:
  Experience developing work plans and/or tracking systems, monitoring work progress, and producing deliverables on time.
• Analytic…