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Join The Decision Lab, an innovative behavior science firm, and use your education consulting skills to effect real change in education sectors globally.
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Salary
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Location
413-4030 rue Saint-Ambroise, Montreal, QC, H4C 2C7
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Organisation Summary
The Decision Lab is an applied behavioral science firm with clients like the Gates Foundation and the World Bank. Stationed in Montreal, our mission is to convert insights from behavioral science into useful tools to improve people's lives. The working atmosphere encourages intellectual ownership, creativity and is guided by socially conscious, pragmatic, inventive, catalytic, and evidence-based principles.
Role Summary
- Execute desk research, data analysis, and stakeholder interviews to comprehend and document the project context.
- Conduct research to enhance knowledge of the K-12 (and beyond) market.
- Work with diverse stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure project alignment.
- Generate hypotheses and validate them through targeted fieldwork.
- Collaborate with team to deliver reports highlighting key insights.
- Guide junior team members in their roles and responsibilities.
Role Requirements
- 2+ years experience in the educational sector, preferably in the U.S. K-12 education system.
- A commitment to using rigorous testing for decision making; proficiency in both qualitative and quantitative methods, experimental design, and statistics.
- Strong business acumen with an ability to strategically connect ideas and problems to achieve ethical and sustained impact; strong verbal & written skills.
- Independent thinker comfortable working in dynamic and often ambiguous environments.
Consultant - Education
Department: Consulting
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Montreal, Canada - Head Office
Reporting To: Director of Consulting
Description
The Decision Lab is an applied behavioral science consulting firm based in Montréal. Our mission is to democratize the insights generated by behavioral insights to help people live better lives. We’re a young company, but we punch above our weight: in the past, we’ve worked with partners like the Gates Foundation, Capital One, and the World Bank, using scientific thinking to tackle some of the thorniest problems of our day.
Everything we do at TDL is guided by SPICE: Socially conscious, Pragmatic, Inventive, Catalytic, and Evidence-based. You can read more about us and our core values here.
We started The Decision Lab because we saw a fundamental gap between behavioral science theory and application. The Consultant role is at the front line of bridging this gap. This means that we look for bright, capable and curious candidates with a strong grasp of behavioral science concepts (from the point of view of behavioral economics, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, etc.) who have a thirst for translating evidence (be it desk research, experiments or analytics) into practical and valuable solutions and content for private clients or public consumption.
The Decision Lab is a place where you can learn to use evidence-based approaches to solve diverse & complex challenges. You will work alongside intelligent & free-thinking colleagues who lead with optimism, pragmatism and empathy. Rather than reusing the same behavior change frameworks, TDL develops custom solutions – this means that in addition to being evidence-based, your role will be fundamentally creative and you will have the opportunity to evolve and express your thinking in the work you do. Our team members help and empower each other and we have a rich set of tools and frameworks that you will be exposed to, but you will ultimately be responsible for your work – past hires tell us they are surprised to what extent they are able to take intellectual ownership of the projects they work on.
What you'll be working on
- Performing desk research, data analysis, and stakeholder interviews to understand and document the project context
- Perform research and capacity-building activities focused on improving understanding of the K-12 market (and beyond) for products and services
- Finding and synthesizing relevant research
- Working with a diversity of stakeholders to situate the project context and identify stakeholder needs
- Adapting proprietary and third-party data-gathering instruments to uncover systemic and behavioral challenges in education
- Generating hypotheses and validating them through targeted fieldwork
- Analyzing and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative findings to answer core questions
- Prioritizing findings and distilling key insights by collaborating with other consultants and directors to produce client-facing deliverables
- Creating and delivering workshops and other skill-building activities with stakeholders
- Presenting findings to internal and client stakeholder groups; including funders and project partners,
- Producing reports that highlight key insights in user-friendly ways
- Guiding junior team members, including associates, to support the above activities
What we are looking for
We are looking for a candidate with professional experience in and knowledge of the education sector in addition to experience working as a consultant or researcher. Key attributes of the ideal candidate include:
Experience: 2+ years experience in a role in either the for-profit or non-profit sector working on issues related to education and equity, preferably in the U.S. K-12 education sector. The ideal candidate will have worked on any or all of the above: system-level education issues, K12 market dynamics, and capacity building with actors in the education system.
Analytic Rigor: You are committed to using rigorous testing to decide what the right course of action is rather than relying on intuition; a good grasp of qualitative and quantitative methods, experimental design, and statistics is a plus, including awareness of the considerations of scaling interventions in education contexts.
Business Sense: You are a holistic, strategic thinker who constantly connects the dots between ideas, problems, organizations, and how ethical & sustained impact can be achieved; strong verbal & written skills are a must
Culture: You are an independent thinker comfortable working in an often ambiguous and dynamic environment
About the role
- Type: Permanent position
- Hybrid - 2 days a week in Montreal office
- Seniority level and responsibility for this role scale based on candidate experience, on a case-by-case basis.
