On-Call Educational Consultant, Region 5 | Remote

ICF seeks an Educational Consultant to work within our Youth and Adult Education (YAE) portfolio. The YAE portfolio provides federal, state, and other clients with a wide range of technical assistance, applied research, evaluation, and continuous quality improvement services. Our work focuses on important education policy issues; uses proven and innovative methods for delivering high-quality, timely technical assistance; seeks to inform and support education stakeholders in learning how to implement promising practices; and involves working closely with clients to ensure that services are relevant, responsive, useful, and make a difference. The Educational Consultant will work with clients such as U.S. Department of Education and State and local educational agencies. 

This role will be an On-Call hourly position/Remote for Region 5 ( KY, TN, VA, WV )

Key Responsibilities:

In this role you will be responsible for developing and maintaining strong, collegial relationships with state education agencies (SEAs) and other clients to provide high-quality, relevant, and useful capacity-building technical assistance.  The consultant will conduct needs assessment; develop and deliver technical assistance that clearly addresses client needs; monitor and course correct services; coordinate with project evaluators to curate evidence; and liaise with clients.  In addition, the consultant lead and/or coordinate technical assistance teams to ensure the provision of high-quality services to clients.

Key project tasks may include:

• Serve as key point of contact with clients, internal teams, and leadership
• Nurture ongoing relationships with clients; manage client needs assessment in a systematic and ongoing manner; communicate needs to technical assistance teams and project leadership; develop, provide, and broker services to clients based on needs
• Serve as point of contact with other technical assistance providers, as needed, and manage collaborative work, brokering services as appropriate
• Participate on technical assistance teams providing services to clients, contributing technical and process expertise
• Develop technical assistance plans in collaboration with clients, internal teams, and leadership
• Provide technical assistance plan management of planned activities and staff
• Develop technical assistance resources, such as information briefs, whitepapers, tools, rubrics, processes, etc., according to high standards of quality and in compliance with internal quality control processes
• Develop, deliver, monitor, and course correct ongoing technical assistance services
• Coordinate and collaborate with project evaluators to curate evidence, collect information, and schedule data collection and reporting activities
• Assist in contributing to required formal reports and contribute to internal documentation systems
• Advise leadership about emerging state and federal education policy issues, technical assistance strategies, and new resources
• Participate in team and all-staff meetings to discuss progress of technical assistance initiatives, emerging needs and issues, and challenges to service provision

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate or Master’s degree
• A minimum of 10 years of experience working in Education
• A minimum of 5 years at a state education agency and/or providing TA to a state education agency
• A minimum of 5 years of work experience designing and providing education technical assistance
• A minimum of 5 years working in at least one content area of education expertise (such as accountability systems; assessment; college and career readiness; English learners; equity; literacy; school improvement; social-emotional learning; STEM education; teacher and leader recruitment, development, and retention; etc.)

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Doctorate or Master’s degree in education, social sciences, public administration, or related subjects
• Previous experience providing support to state education agency in Region 5
• Extensive experience developing high quality technical assistance materials, including information briefs, whitepapers, tools, presentations, and processes
• Strong team player with the ability to take initiative and work well independently
• Excellent verbal, oral, interpersonal, and written communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office and other standard office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Teams)
• Knowledge about capacity building, coaching, and other adult learning approaches
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, perspectives, and stakeholder needs
• Recent experience contributing to projects for the US Department of Education’s offices and programs
• Experience working in a consulting e