About the role

  • 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

Job title

Consultant

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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