Consultant - School Improvement
- Job Title
- Consultant - School Improvement
- Job ID
- 27400704
- Description
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About Mass Insight
Mass Insight Education & Research is a growing Boston-based nonprofit serving schools and districts nationwide. Our mission is to provide leadership in closing achievement and opportunity gaps for underserved students by focusing on system transformation and student academic success. Mass Insight is a leader in education reform, providing academic programs, research, and strategic consulting services across the United States. We take a design-based approach to implementing our theory of action by building networks, coherence, and capacity in order to make learning rigorous for all students.
We seek to dramatically improve student achievement at scale by transforming state and local education systems, structures, and policies. We also work directly with schools and districts to develop, implement and assess plans to improve school and district performance. Mi organizes its work around our theory of action for improving schools:
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Consultant Position Summary
Mass Insight is growing and seeking to fill this critical new position on the School Improvement team. A Consultant plays a key role on our team, partnering with a school, district, state department and/or other education organization to assess, plan, implement and evaluate strategies to improve student achievement and school performance. Consultants provide expert support for projects under the direction of a team leader, and are responsible for major elements of projects. This Consultant will support Mass Insight’s network for school improvement.
While the Mass Insight office is in Boston, Mass Insight staff live all over the country. We expect this individual to spend significant time in Massachusetts area schools and prefer candidates within driving distance.
Qualifications
Mass Insight has identified a set of Core Competencies that it expects to see in all staff members. Candidates for the consultant position should demonstrate competence in each of the following areas at the level described:
Core Competencies
Consultant Level Expectations
Champions Our theory of action
- Understands and helps others to understand how our theory of action informs our work
- Organizes work to implement most elements of our theory of action
Believes in and grows people
- Manages staff from an assets-based approach and effectively develops his/her people
- Demonstrates resilience in the face of challenge
- Establishes clear expectations for staff and provides needed support
Promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness
- Seeks out, values, and responds to cultures—including perspectives, experiences different from one’s own
- Understands, anticipates, and plans for the ways that culture impacts our work with both partners and other Mass Insight staff
- Helps build cultural awareness in other staff
- Uses knowledge of staff, including their cultural perspectives, experiences, interests, and concerns, to differentiate management; uses knowledge of self to account for how one’s belief’s, values, biases, and work preferences affect one’s staff
Establishes partner trust
- Builds relationships with key members of partner team to advance the work
- Able to authentically describe the challenges facing partners
- Demonstrates cross-cultural agility by establishing strong relationship and ensuring success in a variety of settings
Manages projects to impact in spite of ambiguity
- Gets the required work done, even when there are grey areas and obstacles
- Supports Mass Insight and partners in maintaining a focus on the work in spite of distractions
- Able to adjust work and project schedule and milestones in response to changing expectations
Effectively Works as a Team Player
- Builds and supports a cohesive team to accomplish project goals
- Operates with self-awareness and maintains perspective to support the team
- Takes responsibility for addressing team challenges
Solves Complex Problems Systematically
- Collect and organize data and other evidence in ways that facilitate problem solving
- Builds strong project plans that meet project needs
- Demonstrate understanding of contextual factors that influence partner success
- Provides strong solutions to discreet problems within a project
Continuously Builds Both Education & Specific Subject Matter Expertise
- Brings and continuously grows both education and specific subject matter expertise within the education field
- Facilitates learning of both partner and Mass Insight staff
Communicates Effectively
- Presents information to partners and Mass Insight colleagues in a clear and concise manner, both written and oral
- Demonstrates active listening skills that demonstrate empathy and understanding
- Matches communication style to the context and need
Facilitates Effectively
- Uses a variety of facilitation tools and protocols to engage groups in learning, problem-solving, decision-making, and action-planning
In addition to demonstrating the core competencies described above, a consultant must have a bachelor’s degree. A master’s degree or comparable past experiences is preferred but not required.