Senior Consultant

About Junxion Strategy

Junxion is a fractional strategy partner for purpose-led boards, CEOs, and their teams. From offices in Vancouver, Toronto, and London we’ve supported over 600 clients on five continents, who tackle everything from AIDS to Net Zero.

Through our integrated suite of services, we help businesses and nonprofits to navigate complexity, deepen resilience, and drive sustainable growth.

About the Role

At Junxion, Senior Consultants are responsible for leading or supporting client projects across our integrated suite of services, supporting our clients’ work to lead their sectors.

Candidates have 7+ years of experience, including expertise in social purpose, strategy and planning, impact measurement, sustainability, and/or related public disclosures and reporting.

We’re currently looking for a Senior Consultant to be based in Vancouver, with experience supporting strategy and planning engagements for social purpose organizations, including social purpose businesses, social ventures, enterprising non-profits, and / or NGOs.

The job is full-time, 37.5 hours a week. It is beginning as a cover for a parental leave, but may be extended if the right candidate fits our culture and contributes well to our clients’ success.

Successful candidates generally hold graduate degrees in business or other fields related to Junxion’s work, and are people who thrive in a semi-remote, purpose-led environment and bring to life our values of courage, generosity, curiosity, and fun in their work.

Key Working Relationships

In Canada, Junxion Senior Consultants report to the Consulting Director, working in collaboration with Junxion colleagues and associates in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada and London, UK. They also work directly with clients, prospects and partners, and engage with external contractors and suppliers.

Key Responsibilities

Consulting Engagements

• Manage client relationships and lead or deliver projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered to the agreed time scale, quality standards and budget
• Keep colleagues and clients informed of developments and resolve issues as they arise, resulting in successful projects and leading to further work
• Contribute to all stages of projects including kick-off meetings, research, strategy and delivery
• Implement business, marketing and CSR strategies and programmes
• Draft and edit sustainability/CSR reports, position papers, and other communications
  Research relevant issues, and analyse, synthesise and present findings in papers and reports
• Apply specialist knowledge to client work, including one or more of sustainability strategy, reporting, impact measurement, branding, and marketing communications
• Work closely with specialist consultants, designers and web developers to present project outputs in print or online

New Business Development

• Develop new business opportunities with existing clients and new prospects that support Junxion’s mission to help leaders build the success stories of the next economy
• Write quality proposals and presentations to pitch for work from prospective clients
• Conduct sector scans and benchmarking, gathering insights to inform proposals and presentations
• Market Junxion to external audiences and contribute to our marketing plan
• Propose, research and write articles for the Junxion website and newsletter
• Represent Junxion at meetings, events and online, including social media.

Project Management

• Working with Junxion’s Project Manager, design and plan projects, including preparing work breakdown structures, proposing how time and resources are allocated and managing relationships with specialist consultants, designers and web developers
• Support planning week-to-week resource allocation of the staff and associates in the Vancouver and/or Toronto office across all projects

Other Responsibilities

• Keep up-to-date with developments and trends in social innovation, social purpose in business, CSR and sustainability, social enterprise, and related communications norms and standards to inform and improve Junxion services and products
• Support and promote existing Junxion services, products and tools, and contribute to developing new ones
• Contribute to developing processes and systems that enhance how Junxion operates and delivers our work
• Support and contribute to development of our values-aligned, anchored in our core values of generosity, courage, curiosity, and fun
• Adhere to Junxion policies and procedures

Skills & Attributes

Overall, you are…

• Values-aligned
• Ambitious for the role of business in meeting sustainability challenges
• Empathetic about the constraints our clients face
• An independent, strategic thinker, able to synthesise information, produce robust analysis and communicate with clarity
• Able to exercise sound judgement in the face of conflicting pressures and deadlines
• Able to work with a high degree of autonomy
• Ready to develop their own client relationships
• Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Flexible about their work environment and being part of an international team

Your Knowledge, Training and Qualifications

• University degree (Masters preferred) with a focus on sustainability, CSR, business or marketing/communications
• Understanding of CSR and/or sustainability issues and/or entrepreneurship and/or intrapreneurship and/or organizational structure and governance models and practices
• Knowledge of the Global Reporting Initiative, B Corp and other impact measurement, corporate disclosure and reporting frameworks
• Awareness and evidence of engagement on issues of social entrepreneurship, CSR, social justice and/or environmental sustainability

Your Experience

• Minimum seven years working in a corporate or consulting firm / agency, social purpose / socially responsible business, NGO, or international development organisation
• Experience managing consulting engagements, including client projects
• Experience working with management in the corporate and / or social sectors
• Experience designing and facilitating workshops and / or meetings
• Experience writing for a range of audiences across a number of platforms
• Experience conducting exploratory/investigative interviews
• Project Management skills and experience are desirable assets

Your Particular Skills and Attributes

• Can communicate confidently and deliver proposals and presentations or speak at public events
• Excellent critical thinking and analysis skills
• Excellent writing and editing skills, specifically the ability to produce clear, well-structured papers, reports and proposals for different audiences and to tight deadlines
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Google Workspace suite and Keynote
• Strong customer service orientation
• Strong existing network and experience with CRMs an asset
• Experience with Appreciative Inquiry or other social research methodologies an asset

Some More Details

We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and lived experiences. If you’re excited by the opportunity to connect strategic consulting, sales, and marketing in service of positive impact, we’d love to hear from you.

English fluency is required. French fluency will be valued highly in this role.

Salaries for Junxion’s Senior Consultants range from CAD $85 – 125K, commensurate with experience and progressing based on a comprehensive assessment of values-aligned performance.

If you meet most, but not all of these criteria, we encourage you to apply. Ultimately, we’re looking for values-aligned people to join our team.

Please send your cover letter, expressing why you’re interested in Junxion Strategy, and your CV to [email protected].