Senior Consultant, Strategic Alignment

Job Description:

• Partner with the Director, Strategic Alignment to extend strategic frameworks, decision-readiness standards, and innovation practices across the institution
• Equip Functional Leaders with strategic thinking tools and approaches
• Build strategic planning and decision-readiness tools and templates
• Partner on active strategic initiatives
• Translate institutional strategy into concrete, actionable functional plans
• Co-develop function-level plans during annual and off-cycle planning cycles
• Identify cross-functional dependencies, overlaps, and gaps
• Manage the innovation lifecycle from idea through validation, pilot, and enterprise adoption
• Screen and triage incoming ideas against defined criteria
• Support submitters in sharpening problem definitions and expected value
• Design pilot structures, including scope, success criteria, timelines, and evaluation approaches
• Track pilot progress, risks, pipeline health, and progression
• Document pilot learnings and route them into enterprise planning
• Prepare structured summaries and materials for Operations Council and related governance forums
• Maintain documentation of strategic decisions, rationale, and follow-up actions
• Partner with Finance, PMO, Operational Excellence, and Enterprise Operations on approved initiative handoffs

Requirements:

• Master's degree in organizational development, business, education, or related field required
• 5 to 7+ years of experience in strategy, organizational planning, innovation, consulting, or institutional effectiveness
• Demonstrated ability to influence leaders without formal authority over them
• Strong facilitation skills; comfortable running working sessions with senior stakeholders
• Working knowledge of business case development, ROI framing, and decision-readiness criteria
• Experience in highly regulated academic or healthcare environments preferred