BCG’s global Education, Employment & Welfare (EEW) sector is growing and aggressively building our capabilities and impact by adding talented people to our ranks. In this position, you will assume an important role among a dynamic team that is seeking to deliver impact with our clients and in the world, while contributing to the growth of BCG and affiliation of our staff to our particular sector. Key qualifications will be an ability to handle detail with efficiency and accuracy and an ability to juggle more balls than possible. You won’t be doing just one job or task but plugging in where it’s most needed on any given day or project.
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
Support research requests for EEW project teams
Conduct basic desktop research to fulfill requests from consulting staff (both from "off-the-shelf" materials and external sources)
Conduct background research on education and employment policy topics to support publications and thought leadership development
Assist with the accumulation and sharing of EEW-related knowledge, both internally and externally
Support with preparing content for BCG events, panels, and conferences
Support with knowledge management efforts (e.g., refreshing documents, codifying and publishing them on internal database, collecting project vignettes)
Work with our curation teams to sanitize proposal and project output and publish on internal database
Team with EEW sector colleagues on business development activity, particularly for the U.S. market
Support proposal writing and development, including compiling BCG credentials and project vignettes and writing staff bios
Research what Request for Proposals (RFPs) exist within our target markets
Assist with EEW sector marketing and communications efforts
Help draft internal emails, newsletters, and staff communications
Write external blogs, memos, and articles on EEW topics
- Working with a global team
- Working in a fast-paced environment
- Managing several requests and prioritizing effectively
- Building knowledge on new topics quickly
- Writing – in particular, short-form articles, blogs and memos would be preferred
- Desktop research using peer-reviewed articles and databases
- Translating large volumes of information into digestible and consumable formats
- Must be enrolled in Northeastern University and eligible to participate in the Co-op program.
- Strong self-organization skills and acute attention to detail
- At least some PowerPoint experience
- Some knowledge of (or interest in learning about) the EEW fields, particularly U.S. education, employment and skilling, workforce development, and public policy
- Research skills such as finding and extracting data from news sources and databases and translating them into easy-to-understand formats such as slides, memos, etc.
- Experience in Slack preferred, but not required
- Experience in at least one prior co-op
- At least one year of college/university