QS is seeking an enthusiastic, imaginative, and effective consultant to join its established and rapidly growing higher education performance consulting practice.
The practice comprises a vibrant and skilled team of experienced and passionate higher education experts delivering high quality strategic insight and advice to education institutions and policy makers worldwide.
The position will be focused on: taking a proactive role in supporting the practice’s global engagement in terms of development and delivery; contributing effectively to the service offering development in synergy with the different parts of the business; and participating increasingly in executive representation -thought-leadership/ professional commentary- to help universities and their stakeholders best maximise their positive impact.
Consulting Engagement – contributing to international consulting projects including occasionally taking a leading role on some components: planning, managing, and delivering; ensuring high expectations for quality in all assigned projects and deliverables
Business Development – contributing to business development opportunities for prospective clients: scoping and proposal tailoring.
Customer Experience – enhancing the customer experience to convert one-time satisfied customers to long-term partners and champions
Product Development – contribute to channel insights surfaced through close working with the team and QS stakeholders into evidence-based feature recommendations for products and services across the QS portfolio
Sector Expertise –build a sound a working knowledge of international higher education
And any other duties that fall within the scope and purpose of the role.
Requirements
Highly adaptable and quick learner
Strong attention to detail with a commitment to ensuring high quality delivery
Confident approach and creative mindset oriented towards problem-solving and strategic development
Strong commitment to maintaining and surpassing standards
Ability to manage workload and competing deadlines with minimal handholding
Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines
Excellent team-work ethic, able to learn from other team members, to; incorporate constructive feedback autonomously; ready to support the wider team - autonomy and collaboration
Ability to take the initiative and to proactively suggest solutions when problem-solving
Highly effective presentation and communication skills, supported strongly by data where appropriate and backed up by a commitment to excellent customer service (Advanced PowerPoint: mandatory; skills in other design tools a plus)
Robust standards of concise, professional, and insightful report writing
Confidence with data processing and visualisation tools (Advanced Excel, Tableau, R, etc.) is a plus
Professional fluency in English; a fluent command of one or more the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese or French is a plus
Experience in higher education and/or established consulting practice experience is a plus
Legal right to live and work in the job location (no sponsorship)
Benefits
Free subscription to the Calm App – the #1 app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation
A focus on welfare which is led by our global wellness team, with mental health first aiders globally
Access to a variety of diversity and inclusion initiatives and groups
Strong recognition and reward programs – including a peer-to-peer recognition platform, quarterly and annual QS Applaud Awards, Connect with your Career annual PD event
Support for volunteering and study leave
Free subscription to LinkedIn learning – with over 5000 courses and programmes at your fingertips
Options to join our outstanding global Mentorship programme
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