YouScience – Empowering Intentional Individualized Success.  

YouScience is a rapidly growing SaaS business focused on solutions in the education and workforce development sectors with nearly a million users in 7k+ schools globally. We combine revolutionary aptitude-based career guidance with industry-recognized certifications that empower students to uncover their natural talent, validate their skills and knowledge, and pursue their best-fit educational pathways and careers.

Our platform uses real measures of aptitudes via psychometrically valid “brain games” to determine a user’s unique set of natural abilities. When combined with interests, the results yield very accurate career recommendations and deep personal insights. Our industry-recognized Career and Technical Education (CTE) certifications help students validate the knowledge and skills they have gained in the classroom and match them to employment opportunities and continuing education. Taken together, our suite of products expands students’ vision of opportunity and equips educators to better guide students in their educational and career decisions.

Note: This is a 1099 independent contractor role. Those hired for this role will not be employed by YouScience, and will need to be available to consult with various school districts and schools during traditional school hours.

The YouScience Professional Services Adjunct Consultant works closely with the Project Client to fulfill the expectations of a specific consulting or professional learning project. 

To be successful in this role you must demonstrate strong capabilities to process new information quickly, think critically, and create learning solutions that help students, schools, and communities thrive.

Project Management

• Maintain timelines and assess for scope creep within plans
• Conduct planning and check-in virtual/phone meetings at regular intervals and as needed.  Conduct occasional on-site meetings with the Client and designated constituents and partners. 
• Provide virtual and on-site presentations, professional development, and facilitation of meetings with the Client and designated constituents and partners.
• Advise the Client in the use of YouScience resources, maintain prompt email correspondence, and provide specialized writing and editorial support, as needed. 
• Conduct a monthly planning and check-in with the local leadership team. This can be a phone call, virtual meeting, or live meeting.  
• Conduct on-site meetings as designated within the Project Management Plan with the local leadership team during each program year. 

Project Deliverables

• Develop and deliver unique solutions and deliverables through the course of a specific project. As often as possible, YouScience will provide standardized project materials for the Consultant to use and build from.  
• Follow the Scope within the Statement of Work. The SOW will explain how much of the project materials are developed by the internal YouScience team and provided to the Consultant, and how much of the work should be done directly by the Consultant.  

Team and Client Collaboration

• Maintain close internal communications with YouScience Professional Services Team, with frequency determined by project load.  
• Report to and receive input from the team members designated to manage the  project.  
• When assigned to a project, will participate in supportive one-on-one check in calls with designated members of YouScience Professional Services Team. 
• Participate in scheduled internal YouScience Professional Services virtual meetings among Consultants and other YouScience Professional Services meetings to which Consultants are invited.  
• Participate in an onboarding training to learn about the YouScience approach to delivering Consulting Services within Pathways, Academies, and Career Connected Learning.
• Develop and maintain a strong familiarity with YouScience technology tools, and the range of YS professional services.  
• On a case-by-case basis and schedule permitting, represent YouScience Professional Services at virtual and in-person conferences and meetings that relate to Career Connected learning. 
• Use YouScience Professional Services internal project and document management tools, Gather and post materials, use Google Drive and the Zoom virtual meeting platforms. Ensure that the project folder is consistently well organized, and that older, out of date versions of documents are archived.

Experience:

• 8+ years of significant professional experience working in education, workforce development, or economic development.
• 5+ years in senior consulting or executive experience in an education, workforce, or economic development setting.  

Travel Requirements:

• Travel varies based on specific projects. Consultants can choose to accept projects where they may travel on-site in one- or two-day increments, as many as four times annually for each local site they coach.

Skills:

• The ability to effectively facilitate group discussions and engage partners around shared values toward a common vision.  
• Excellent public speaking skills and the ability to make effective presentations of YouScience Professional Services-developed materials.  
• Excellent listening skills, expressed by an ability to understand the core concept a speaker is trying to express.  
• The ability to synthesize core concepts from multiple speakers, help resolve disparities of perspective, and reach agreement.  
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with the ability to draft and edit strategic planning, case studies, and documents about best practices in education.  
• Strategic Planning Development. 
• Effective group facilitation techniques.

Company Values

• We empower others 

• We perform as a cohesive championship team  

• We are all leaders

• We never stop growing

• We make a positive impact

• We show respect in word and in deed  

• We remember that life is bigger than our work

YouScience is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or another legally protected status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.