Strategy Consultant, Direct Investments

Job Posting Title

Strategy Consultant, Direct Investments

Employee Type

Regular

Recruiting Start Date

10-02-2024

Job Exempt?

Yes

Recruiting End Date

Open Until Filled

Aloha mai!  Mahalo for your interest in Kamehameha Schools.  If you are looking for an opportunity to utilize your skills and talents and grow in your profession, while serving and strengthening our Native Hawaiian community, we would love to have you join our ʻohana!

Kamehameha Schools is hiring for a Strategy Consultant I to support our Sustainable Industry Development division. This position will function similarly to an Investment Analyst by working with KS' Hawaii based investments that support KS’ land portfolio across its agriculture and conservation lands.

This role is a great opportunity for a recent graduate that would like to gain hands-on experience meeting with start-ups and being a key team member on investment due diligence, financial analysis, and investment monitoring & reporting. Graduates with a BA, MA/MBA in Business, Economics, Finance, or Accounting are encouraged to apply.

Job Summary

Proactively contributes and adds value to support organizational goals and strategies through the development/planning, implementation, monitoring and communications of enterprise-level strategy and key initiatives.

Essential Responsibilities

Enterprise-level Strategy Development and Implementation

• Proactively supports and/or manages discreet portions of enterprise-level strategy development and planning.
• Strategic Alignment – Contributes to the development and implementation of KS strategies across multiple business lines (Education, Community Engagement & Support) to ensure the alignment of group/divisional activities with the organization's mission, vision and enterprise-level goals & strategies
• Supports design, selection, management and implementation of KS' enterprise portfolio
• Gathers, interprets, evaluates data, and develops integrated business analyses and projections for incorporation into strategic decision-making.
• Using project management, analysis and business process skills plan and deliver on critical strategic initiatives that have enterprise implications with high quality results and within set parameters.
• Change Management - Supports unit leadership and teams through changes associated with specific organizational initiatives and projects. Adapts well to change and ambiguity and adjusts work as appropriate
• Innovation – Supports design and facilitation of innovative frameworks, approaches and models to assess organization opportunities for transformational change.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Supports short and long range system-wide educational and community engagement planning efforts via facilitation of discussion, statistical, organizational and/or program analyses.
• Supports strategy-level performance measurement, evaluation, monitoring and reporting to update and inform leadership on organization performance, work progress and active/emerging issues or initiatives.

Communications and Collaborations

• Effective listener who can cultivate clear, consistent and open channels of communication and information sharing within S&I and between all organization levels (CEO, Vice Presidents, inter-KS groups and staff).
• Works towards collaborative cross-functional teaming and are responsive and flexible to the variety of KS needs (organization, community, function).
• Sought out to participate on cross-functional project teams and initiatives and demonstrates ability to diffuse conflict and build consensus to achieved shared outcomes.

Leadership and Management

• Serves as a leader by example for peers and others by proactively volunteering and showing initiative in informal and formal settings.
• Able to secure, coordinate, manage and supervise internal and external (contractor) resources to achieve initiative/project objectives.
• Provides clear direction and expectations and timely feedback for team members on projects where you are lead.

Position Requirements

Minimum Qualifications - A combination of education and experience may be substituted for the requirements listed.

• Bachelor's Degree in business, education, social science or related fields.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience and progressive responsibility in management consulting, systems integrat