The Consultant will bring experience in evaluation, capacity building, and strategy, and will manage a portfolio of five to seven consulting engagements.
The Consultant will be responsible for the overall direction and implementation of client-facing engagements in evaluation, strategic program design, evaluation capacity building, and data management. The Consultant will be responsible for serving as client lead for a dedicated portfolio of roughly five to seven clients, holding and executing the overall vision for the engagement, working closely with colleagues to delegate and complete tasks.
Founded in 2007 by Corey Newhouse, Public Profit has evolved greatly from its beginnings working with education and youth development programs and staff training initiatives. Today, with a growing team of 16 staff members, Public Profit supports nonprofits, philanthropies, and municipal entities of all sizes across the country in tackling complex problems. Core services include evaluation, strategic program design, training and capacity building, and data visualization. Increasingly, the firm’s portfolio has included more developmental, emergent, and strategy-focused work, meaning project teams collaborate more closely with both a broad range of project stakeholders and key decision-makers of client organizations. This also means the work has broadened, expanding into philanthropic strategy and performance, public health and health equity, workforce development, and other human services.
The team operates in a matrixed fashion, with individual staff working on several projects at once in different team configurations. Projects are assigned in a range of ways, balancing overall team bandwidth.
The successful candidate will have high standards for their work, align with Public Profit’s culture of openness and collaboration, and be committed to advancing social equity through community capacity building and learning.
● Lead and work on multiple complex client-facing evaluation, strategy, and learning projects.
● Design and implement data collection through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and other methods.
● Lead qualitative and guide quantitative analysis.
● Lead the production of high-quality deliverables, including written reports, data profiles, and presentations.
● Manage small collaborative project teams, delegate effectively.
● Work with other Consultants to build innovative approaches to the work.
● Engage in continuous self-reflection and learning.
● Three to five years of experience in a similar professional capacity. We encourage candidates who have worked in the social sector in a strategy, capacity-building and/or evaluation role, as well as those with more formal applied research experience.
● A passion for helping mission-driven organizations use data to measure and improve the quality of their work.
● Proven experience analyzing complex qualitative or quantitative data; ability to guide others to do so.
● Comfort facilitating meetings and trainings, generally including between 5-30 participants.
● Demonstrated ability to lead a project team of 2-3 staff, including developing workplans, delegating tasks, coordinating staff.
● Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to meet established deadlines.
● Strong attention to detail; excellent communication skills; a self-driven yet collaborative working style; voracious curiosity.
● Strong familiarity with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the ability to work for extended periods while sitting at a computer.
● Ability to work occasional evening hours and travel in the US.
The salary for this position is $110,000. Fitting with its commitment to equity and a team culture that values each member as a key contributor, Public Profit also provides annual revenue sharing to every employee. We are committed to supporting our team’s work-life balance. Benefits include, but are not limited to:
● Health insurance for employee through Kaiser;
● 401(k) with 4% employer match;
● $2,000 annual professional development budget;
● Full office closure the last week of the calendar year;
● 11 company holidays, 15 days paid time off to start.
Public Profit full-time staff are located throughout California. Public Profit has a hybrid model in which team members work from our office in downtown Oakland at least two days per week (Tuesday and Wednesday).
All Public Profit staff are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to beginning employment.
● Submit a current resume and cover letter specific to this position via email at [email protected]. Include your first and last name in the file name of both documents (e.g. “Amira Shah Resume 2026” and “Amira Shah CL 2026”).
● If you use AI for your application, please do so with intention and care.
● We will review applications beginning March 31st. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
● We will do our best to respond to all applicants within two weeks, including applicants that will not be invited for an interview.
