Principal Strategy & Innovation Consultant

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:  Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization:

Strategy & Innovation

Job Summary:

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Strategy and Innovation Team is looking for its next Principal Consultant who will lead the team’s delivery of client workshops, projects, and training.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

Strategy and Innovation helps the company’s teams make sense of complex situations and design a response that promotes impact and innovation. Our professional services lead teams through assessing complex or complicated situations, developing response plans, generating ideas rapidly, and amplifying or accelerating collaboration in the work. We deliver 2-3 medium-high complexity workshops (or projects) each month, as well as client training and advice in our methods.

Our team are experts on the process of sensemaking and ideation. Other departments provide expertise in market analytics, business development, tech transfer, etc.

Topics for our client work are wide ranging from research portfolios, clinical service enhancements, and medical education innovations to operations improvement, culture change, patient experience, and everything in between.

Our methods draw heavily from anthro-complexity (see The Cynefin Company), with some also from strategic design.

Our workshops are facilitated by crews with different roles, rather than individuals.

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ABOUT THE JOB 

The Principal Consultant leads workshops and projects including project management, activity design and assembly, client correspondence, workshop facilitation as part of the crew, and final documentation. They also translate new methods into department operations and training for generalists and advise clients on how to apply methods on their own.  

Qualified candidates will have: 

• Experience leading planning and delivery of similar workshops and projects with similar methods. 

• Experience leading entrepreneurial projects translating new or nascent methods, frameworks, and practices into operational use. 

• Proficiency in delivering on a portfolio with many client projects with different topics at the same time. 

• Ability to drive their own professional growth in nascent and developing fields and topics. 

• Drive and interest in the professional field of anthro-complexity, strategic design, and collaborative workshop facilitation. 

ADDITIONAL DETAILS: 

• WORKING HOURS: This is a full-time position working daytime hours Monday-Friday, with extended hours for events. Weekend events are rare, but occasionally occur. 

• WORKING LOCATION: Hybrid requiring to be onsite for events at our Collaboration Space in Nashville, TN, near the central medical center. 

• PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: "Light Work" category requiring