Are you passionate about making an impact on the education sector? Interested in working with companies, non-profits, institutions, and investors across the K-12, postsecondary, and corporate learning markets?
Strategy Consultant Opportunity (project-based role)
Tyton Partners is looking to expand its bench of contractor and project-based resources and is seeking talented individuals to support project execution and fulfillment activities in a contracting/project-based capacity. The firm is looking for individuals who have 2-3 years of strategy consulting experience, are open to project-based work, and have the flexibility to join engagements on short notice when project needs arise. Consultants can expect to work anywhere between 25-45 hours per week and will be staffed based on the firm’s project needs.
Consultants will serve as individual contributors on client engagements helping senior leaders across the education sector solve their most pressing strategic challenges. Working closely with firm Partners, Directors, Principals, and Associates, Consultants will typically be expected to contribute to research, analysis, and recommendations throughout all phases of a typical client engagement including:
- Exploration of a client’s industry niche, including size, growth trends, and competitors
- Framework ideation and refinement, creating structure to help clarify and describe important dynamics
- Primary research, through qualitative interviews and/or an original survey
- Data analysis, combining stakeholder feedback with publicly available sector information to surface the most important and actionable insights
- Client presentations, helping craft and deliver a client-facing story to help clients understand context, recommendations, and business implications
- Working closely with junior and senior team members, both receiving and providing coaching and guidance as necessary
Desired Skills
- Superior analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to exercise mature judgment in dynamic situations
- Outstanding interpersonal and team-building skills, able to manage up, down, and across an organization
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with an ability to work independently
- Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and willingness to take ownership for breakthrough ideas and strategy formulation
- Self-starter who is comfortable working in dynamic and evolving environments
Qualifications
- 2+ years of strategy consulting experience required; experience working on diligence projects is a plus
- Demonstrated interest or experience in the education sector strongly preferred
About Tyton Partners
Tyton Partners is the leading provider of strategy consulting and investment banking services to the global knowledge sector. With years of experience across the education sector, including evaluation of PreK–12, postsecondary, corporate training, and lifelong learning markets, our team leverages its expertise to offer a spectrum of services to our clients:
- Tyton Partners’ consulting practice delivers strategic planning, growth strategy development, portfolio assessment, go-to-market strategy, business partnership strategy and execution, strategic due diligence, and acquisition support
- With an exclusive focus on the most dynamic global sectors, Tyton Partners works at the intersection of market and mission, helping diverse types of organizations make the best decisions to catalyze their growth and investment objectives
- Consulting clients range from for-profit companies and investors operating across the education and workforce sectors, to operating non-profits and foundations
Learn more about Tyton Partners at www.tytonpartners.com
What We Do
Tyton Partners, formerly Education Growth Advisors, is the leading provider of investment banking and strategy consulting services to the global knowledge sector. Built on the tenets of insight, connectivity, and tenacity, the evolved advisory services firm leverages in-depth market knowledge and perspective to help organizations pursue solutions that have lasting impact. Tyton Partners offers a unique spectrum of services that supports companies, organizations, and investors as they navigate the complexities of the education, media, and information markets. Unlike most firms, Tyton Partners understands the intricacies and nuances of these markets and plays an integral role in shaping the efforts that drive change within them. The firm’s expertise is predicated on its principals’ years of experience working across market segments – including preK–12, postsecondary, corporate training, and lifelong learning sectors – and with a diverse array of organizations, from emergent and established private and publicly traded companies, to non-profit organizations, institutions, and foundations, to private equity and venture capital firms and other investors. Tyton Partners leverages its deep foundation of transactional and advisory experience and an extensive global network to make its clients’ aspirations a reality and to catalyze innovation in the sector.
