Intermediate Planning Consultant

6 months ago


Vancouver, Canada BLANKSLATE Partners Full time

**About Us**

Cornerstone Planning Group is growing and adding an Intermediate Planning Consultant to our team We are looking for an experienced consultant who is driven to solve problems, complete quantitative and qualitative analysis, and lead client-facing projects with support from partners and junior staff members.

Cornerstone is a boutique consultancy located on Granville Island (dog friendly office) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Specializing in strategic planning for public sector organizations - typically related to organizational design and infrastructure requirements - our work emphasizes long-term planning and rigorous research into relevant trends and service demand patterns. Our work spans a wide variety of sectors, and facilities can include: hospitals, libraries, community centres, transitional housing, art and culture venues, theatres, schools and universities, clinics, offices, industrial workshops and yards, and more.

Our collaborative team is focused on providing exceptional service and value to our clients, continuously learning while supporting good vibes and overall company health. We provide a flexible and entrepreneurial environment where all team members have the ability to influence long-term, high-value impacts.

**About the Role**

The Intermediate Planning Consultant will play a key role in business development, as well as, lead the development of complex strategic planning reports.

**Responsibilities**

Strategic Planning (80%):

- Understanding the client's key concerns and aspirations and establishing an approach that responds to them.
- Articulating problems and developing comprehensive and effective analytic approaches to solve them, taking into account the quality of available data.
- Recognize errors and outliers in methodology and data sets. Know when something's not right, and work to fix it.
- Plan and conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis on large and sometimes abstract data sets in order to understand current state, project potential future states, and reach reliable conclusions.
- Able to create, justify, and accurately communicate reasonable assumptions.
- Write clear and comprehensive reports to explain situations, process, analytical approach, findings, and conclusions.
- Develop well-founded and useful recommendations based on analysis.
- Develop relevant and beautiful graphics to convey key information in the clearest way possible.
- Project management: manage project time and resources, internally and externally.
- Develop meeting agenda and materials, support and run meetings both internally and externally.
- Consult with clients in a way that is fun, easy, and polite.
- Research best practices through a variety of industries. Keep up to date on innovations in our sectors.
- Manage schedules, budgets, and scopes, internally and externally.

Business Development (20%):

- Clearly comprehend needs as described in public RFP documents.
- Lead proposal development, including development of creative and effective project approach and methodology, team, level of effort (hours), costs and expenses.
- Write proposals to meet RFP requirements, selling our team, experience, and services.
- Support business development via attending and eventually contributing to conferences, talks, articles, informational meetings, supporting external mentorship programs, etc.
- Identify new business opportunities, leverage network, and follow up.
- Initiate new and innovative approaches to project work.
- Maintaining follow up contacts with previous clients on a periodic basis.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor Degree required. Preferred analytical background in engineering, business analytics, or architecture. Will consider non-technical backgrounds with relevant analysis experience.
- 3-5 years work experience in engineering, consulting, business analysis or similar field.
- Experienced in using MS Excel to manipulate and analyze large/complex data sets
- Experience in complex report development & presentation skills
- Positive, team player with strong written and verbal communication skills, and high detail orientation
- Proven ability to make real connections with clients and maintain relationships past the end of projects.

**Benefits**
- Positive work environment
- Competitive benefits
- Ongoing training and development
- Salary Range: 75k - 90k (Dependent on Skills & Experience)


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