Job description

POSITION: Strategic Advisor
LOCATION: Remote (Eastern Time Working Hours preferred)

Great Place to Work® is a global people analytics and consulting firm that helps companies of all sizes produce better business results by focusing on the work experience for every employee—our research shows there’s a clear and direct relationship between employee engagement and financial performance. Over the past 25 years, we have captured the views of more than 100 million employees globally, helping organizations around the world identify and build high-trust, high-performance cultures.?Powered by decades of research, Emprising®, our Software-as-a-Service survey and analytics platform, empowers companies with access to the assessments, data, and real-time reporting needed?to help them create a meaningful impact on their business, their people, and their culture.?Through our certification programs, we recognize outstanding workplaces and produce?Fortune’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For®, as well as a variety of other Best Workplaces™ rankings in the United States and in more than 60 other countries. Everything we do is driven by our mission: to help every place become a great place to work For All. Great Place to Work is proud to be Certified™ as a Great Place to Work by our employees!
In 2021, Great Place to Work® was acquired by UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group). As a leading global provider of HCM, payroll, HR service delivery, and workforce management solutions, UKG believes organizations succeed when they focus on their people. UKG has more than 14,000 employees around the globe and is known for its inclusive and supportive workplace culture, and best-in-class rewards and benefits.
Position Summary:
We are looking for someone who is passionate about Great Place to Work® and our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) mission, who has experience creating high-quality customer deliverables in a very face-paced and highly agile environment, and who has a track record of building and sustaining strong relationships with customers and colleagues at all levels. This person will be a crucial member of the team, responsible for designing, developing, and delivering key deliverables for Great Place to Work’s most complex and influential accounts.
The goal of this position is to support the success of The Great Transformation research project by owning or contributing to the design, development, and execution of short- and medium-term projects and activities that contribute to the success of priority workstreams and key milestones of The Great Transformation research project.
The ideal candidate has a background in Organizational Development, Industrial Psychology, and/or DEIB in the workplace and has a strong track record of anticipating current and future needs, working with minimal direction in an unstructured and ever-evolving environment, and has a high comfort level toggling between the roles of leader, follower, and doer without ego. A passion for proofreading is a strong plus! “Perfection may not be possible, but excellence certainly is” will resonate with our ideal candidate.
This person will work on The Great Transformation (TGT) core team as part of the Global Strategic Accounts business unit and will report to the Senior Strategic Advisor. As with all team members, this person will role model our Great Place to Work values and will develop and thrive around the “10 Ways to Build your Success” at Great Place to Work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own specific activities and deliverables as work plan and customer needs determine
• Write and edit reports, including making recommendations for change
• Facilitate focus groups and discovery sessions and write reports capturing results and recommendations
• Capture notes from key meetings - identifying and reporting on key quotes, trends, and themes
• Participate in roundtables and learning events as needed, including contributing to design, crafting customer communications, and ensuring a seamless customer experience, which may include technical support as needed
• Support colleagues in meeting project timelines and deliverables
• Anticipate current and future customer needs and provide insights and recommendations that support colleagues to best advise customers
• Review customer deliverables to ensure high quality and consistency with Great Place to Work® Methodologies, tone, and style and in alignment with bespoke customer requirements
• Ensure presentations and reports are polished, professional, and adhere to Brand Standards and Intellectual Property Guidelines
• Facilitate after-action reviews to debrief what worked and what needs to improve to provide greater value; document and share all information gathered

Skills and Abilities Required for Success:

• Demonstrated commitment to Great Place to Work Values, behaviors, and Mission
• Aptitude and interest in the creative “mess” that accompanies designing and building a new job function within an existing organization
• Excellence in building relationships – both with team members and with customers
• Ability to comfortably interact and build relationships with Director-level and above
• Ability to uncover and be responsive to customer need with a high comfort level pivoting approach accordingly
• Demonstrated teamwork and client-management skills; must be a team player who can effectively toggle between leader and follower, between owner and contributor, and between mainstage and backstage
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong attention to detail is a must; strong proofreading skills are a plus
• High level of self-initiative, excellent follow-through, and problem-solving skills
• Articulate, clear and genuine communication style, excellent listening skills
• Potential to develop into a strong facilitator and public speaker
• Self-starter with a “can-do” attitude and responsible mindset
• Proven organizational skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple and sometimes competing tasks
• Desire and willingness to test and learn with a growth mindset
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience, 5-7 years of experience preferred

An ownership/responsible mindset is critical to the success of the Strategic Advisor, and includes the following:

• Proactively asking questions when things might seem unclear or might warrant more attention
• Proactively raising concerns or possible risks so that we can consider the impact and course correct when needed
• Proactively offering up ideas when you think there might be a better or different way of doing something
• Proactively offering support to help bring things over the finish line
• Proactively rolling up our sleeves to take on more if we foresee that we might be getting behind
• Proactively identifying when our approach might need to evolve to meet the unique needs of a particular customer

The preceding functions may not be comprehensive in scope regarding work performed by an employee assigned to this position classification.? Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind the work assignments of this position.? Management also reserves the right to make reasonable accommodations so that a qualified employee(s) can perform the essential functions of the position.

Job Type: Full-time

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