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Senior Consultant - Strategic Planning Analyst

NYSTEC
United States, New York, Albany
Apr 01, 2025
Description About Us: NYSTEC is a nonprofit technology consulting company, advising agencies, organizations, institutions, and businesses since 1996. We're independent and vendor-neutral, so we have our clients' best interests at heart. At NYSTEC, we know that we succeed when individuals and teams flourish personally and professionally, so our benefits and perks support that mindset. About the Role: As a strategic planning analyst in the Planning and Design Practice, you will collaborate with team members to conceptualize, deliver, and support our clients through today's ever-changing public health landscape. NYSTEC is a trusted program advisor, providing subject matter expertise and connecting the dots for our clients. You should have a diversity of strengths relating to public health, healthcare, and strategic planning. You should be able to document discussions of leaders across a large organization, identify themes to understand their priorities and needs, and facilitate team sessions to collaboratively develop solutions to address client needs (e.g., develop strategic recommendations). You should also be able to conduct external landscape analyses to identify themes among the findings and propose recommendations to address public health needs in New York State. Additionally, you will need to anticipate and communicate issues/risks, estimate their task duration, and present their findings. You will need to exhibit excellent writing, organizational, communication, and analytical skills to meet project goals. Serving as a strategic planning analyst, your day-to-day work as a consultant work will include planning tasks, proactively communicating when need assistance, documenting client feedback and decisions, and creating presentations and documentation to elicit the client's input and to address the client's needs. You will need to problem solve and take the first step on complex assignments, identify risks and issues, and present information clearly and concisely to inform team and client decisions. Key Responsibilities Conduct current-state analyses to understand and document the clients' current needs in various capacities. Perform external analyses in the public health/healthcare space to ensure that the solutions proposed to the client are informed by practices of comparable, high-performing entities within NYS or in other states. Develop recommendations for clients that are informed by the findings from the current state and external analyses. Document and support preparations for focus groups/interviews to collect input and feedback. Facilitate team brainstorming and working sessions to inform project strategy and to develop solutions to address client needs. Understand what needs to be done and work as a team player to accomplish that - jumping in where needed. Write clear, concise, and effective reports to help clients understand best practices and recommendations. About you: Required Qualifications Excellent writing, documentation, communication, and analytical skills to meet project goals. Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite of products. Organization and planning skills. Ability to develop relationships with stakeholders and to understand their needs through excellent listening and effective written and verbal communication. Experience with strategic planning/business analysis in a public health, social services, or healthcare field. Preferred/Desired Qualifications Experience/expertise in public health strategic planning projects strongly preferred. Experience working with public health, social services, or healthcare-related projects. Education and Experience A bachelor's degree (preferably in health/healthcare) and five years of related experience. An equivalent combination of advanced education, training, and experience will be considered. It is NYSTEC's policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all individuals, regardless of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, sex, or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, military service and veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws and ordinances. NYSTEC is strongly committed to this policy and believes in the concept and spirit of the law. Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact recruitment@nystec.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for or to perform this job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future. Learn more about NYSTEC by visiting www.nystec.com. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. 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