Consultant

Consultant

NousCubane is seeking a talented Consultant to drive insights for universities across Australia and New Zealand. If you're passionate about solving complex problems, excel at relationship management, and have a mind for continuous improvement, we want to hear from you!

In this position, you will contribute to the development of UniForum reports, studies and NousCubane projects. Consult with clients directly throughout data collection, report development cycle and develop the annual roundtable events. You will contribute to the development of NousCubane’s intellectual property and support the generation of new business.

About NousCubane

NousCubane is a world-leading provider of data-led solutions, specialising in the higher education sector. We are over 50 people across offices in Australia, London, and Toronto, working with some of the most prestigious universities in the world as members of our collaborative benchmarking and insights program, UniForum. New innovations in our BI and reporting platform will extend the insights already available, grow our portfolio of sophisticated data and decision-support solutions and deliver powerful strategic analytics for our clients.

NousCubane is part of Nous Group, an international management consultancy with more than 750 people working in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, and Canada. Nous is regularly acknowledged as a great place to work as part of competitive workplace reviews. In 2023 Nous was again named one of Australia’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work and was recognized as one of LinkedIn’s best places to grow a career, as a LinkedIn Top Company (Australia), previously named Best Management Consulting Firm by the Australian Financial Review.

As a Consultant, you will: 

• Design and deliver analysis to support NousCubane activities for Australia and New Zealand clients
• Support the data collection process, working with industry experts to align with NousCubane methodology
• Conduct analysis, generate insight and develop client reports including university executive briefings, services reviews, roundtable study reports and steering committees
• Assist in leading the delivery and facilitation of client presentations, workshops and events
• Lead the development of best practice case studies
• Contribute to new applications of UniForum data that generate insight for clients
• Identify opportunities for the continuous improvement
• Develop specialist expertise within areas of NousCubane IP and business processes and contribute to the development of new knowledge that supports the regional and global business
• Contribute to the management of individual client relationships by building productive relationships, including with Program Managers and functional leaders.

 A bit about you: 

• Strong academic background, with a Bachelor’s degree or higher. Preferably with a focus on quantitative analysis
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Relationship builder contributing to new and/or existing client development opportunities and delivering outstanding service
• Experience in corporate services transformations, service improvement programs, back-office process and operating model redesign
• Proficient with using business intelligence tools and data analysis to test hypotheses and identify data quality issues and unexpected changes
• Highly organized, with excellent attention to detail and experience in project coordination
• Experience with large and complete data sets (preferred)
• Familiar with the software development lifecycle (preferred).

We would be interested to hear of any experience you have in Higher Education (not a pre-requisite).

Some benefits of working with us

• Belong to a small, supportive team that cares about your professional development. We offer active career and professional development support, funding professional development activities and reimbursing one professional membership per year.
• Opportunities to grow with us as we expand into new products and sectors.
• Flexible working arrangements, including WFH options. Hybrid working is supported while acknowledging that the fastest learning happens when working face to face. Staff receive a once off payment to set up your WFH office.
• A collaborative bonus that reflects company performance is available to all permanent employees.
• All staff have great flexibility around public holidays. We understand that people of different cultures, religions, and political beliefs may wish to choose to take alternative days of leave from scheduled holidays.
• Celebrating commitment to Nous Group by enabling access to long service leave after 5 years of employment.
• Supporting working parents by providing 18 weeks of paid primary carer parental leave and 10 weeks of paid secondary carer parental leave (access to parental leave is gender neutral).

Finally, some important details…

NousCubane is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and First Nations people.

If you are interested in working on complex problems and want to be part of a dynamic team that puts people at the centre of everything, then we'd love to hear from you! Please click apply below.

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