Consulting Analyst, Global Philanthropy

The Opportunity

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance, and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. Huron’s GG+A global philanthropy business is one of the world’s pre-eminent philanthropic management consultancies. We have worked across the world, providing philanthropic counsel to the higher education, not-for-profit, healthcare, arts and cultural sectors. 

Today, we help organizations realize the full potential of their missions through the growth of philanthropic support. Our primary mission is to assist our clients in the substantial improvement and acceleration of their fundraising and engagement programmes, seeking to align those programmes with the institution’s core mission and ensure their sustainability.

You’ll help our clients by providing a robust, data-informed strategy across the donor journey.

Position Summary

At Huron, you can discover your professional passions by being an integral part of our teams and getting exposure to a variety of projects. Our Analysts join us from a wide range of backgrounds and have immediate access to the training and coaching they need to drive impact and develop into the innovators and leaders of tomorrow. We provide the opportunity to enhance analytical skills while working as part of a team committed to developing creative insights, implementing processes, and driving tangible results.

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance, and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. The Huron | GG+A Global Philanthropy business is one of the world’s pre-eminent philanthropic management consultancies. We have worked across the world, providing philanthropic counsel to the higher education, not-for-profit, healthcare, arts and cultural sectors.

Today, we help organizations realize the full potential of their missions through the growth of philanthropic support. Our primary mission is to assist our clients in the substantial improvement and acceleration of their fundraising and engagement programs, seeking to align those programs with the institution’s core mission and ensure their sustainability. You’ll help our clients by providing thoughtful, insightful, and reliable data-driven advice that has become synonymous with the Huron | GG+A brand. The Analyst role requires extensive people, communication, project management, and organizational skills, and a high level of quality and accuracy.

Huron|GG+A seeks a detail-oriented Consulting Analyst, Study & Report Analyst to work with a team of consultants in developing and delivering high quality presentations, reports, and other materials to our clients.

**This is full-time, hybrid position in our Chicago office (3 days a week onsite)**

Qualifications

Some of your responsibilities may include:

• Demonstrate Huron’s values 
• Under the guidance of the senior study and report editor, project directors, consultants, and other colleagues, the analyst reviews studies and reports to ensure all components are properly included, included data is accurate, and objectives of the study or report are addressed. This will involve working across multiple teams and on multiple report projects concurrently. 
• Participate on client engagements, both in and out of an assigned Practice Area (Higher Education, Arts & Culture, Healthcare/Academic Medicine, Independent Schools) to apply critical thinking and teamwork to enhance the quality of the studies and reports, to ensure data is factually conveyed, supported by data and forms a clear narrative consistent with Huron style requirements.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet exacting deadlines – understanding this may require work outside of standard business hours 
• Perform on- and off-site data collection, project interviews with key client staff and stakeholders, background client research, cohort analysis, comparative data analytics, etc. 
• Analyze collected client data to formulate initial data charts, findings, and recommendations

Travel & Requirements

• Strong professional writing and editing skills, with proficiency in editing complex, specialized, or data-centric content preferred.  
• Interest in working within Global Philanthropy, including Higher Education institutions, Academic Medical Centers/Hospitals, Non-Profits, Arts & Culture, and Independent Schools
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability and willingness and ability to travel occasionally (less than 15% of the time) to client sites 
• Experience with data analysis and strong experience developing visual depictions of data trend
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office products
• Strong performance in your degree of choice with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
• Bachelor’s Degree
• U.S. work authorization required
• Exceptional project management & time management skill, familiarity with project management and collaboration tools. 

Posting Category

Education

Opportunity Type

Regular

Country

United States of America