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Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. From strategy to execution, this team delivers integrated, end-to-end support and advisory services covering valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, government operations modernization, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. Work alongside clients every step of the way, helping them navigate new challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and provide practical solutions at every stage of their journey-before, during, and after any major transformational projects or transactions.

Work you'll do

• Leading workstreams across strategy, growth, operating model, and transformation engagements from problem definition through implementation planning
• Managing day-to-day engagement activities, project plans, risks, deliverables, and stakeholder communications across cross-functional teams
• Facilitating workshops and meetings with client stakeholders to align on priorities, decisions, and next steps
• Coaching junior practitioners, reviewing work product, and maintaining quality across deliverables

The team
Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Strategy offering architects bold strategies to achieve business and mission goals, enabling growth, competitive advantage, technology modernization, and continuous digital and AI transformation.

Qualifications
Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of relevant experience in higher education setting, either in the higher education consulting industry or in strategic, operational, and/or managerial roles as an employee of a higher education institution or institutions
• 3+ years of experience leading project teams or workstreams
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

•  Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams, hit deadlines, and deliver client-ready work with limited supervision.
•  Proficiency with standard analytical and productivity tools (Excel, PowerPoint); hands-on experience with AI tools, prompting, or data analysis tools is strongly preferred.
• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and structuring open-ended questions into analyzable components.
• Demonstrated ability to translate analysis into defensible, realistic, and actionable recommendations, both strategic and operational, to improve our clients' performance.

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. From strategy to execution, this team delivers integrated, end-to-end support and advisory services covering valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, government operations modernization, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. Work alongside clients every step of the way, helping them navigate new challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and provide practical solutions at every stage of their journey-before, during, and after any major transformational projects or transactions.

Work you'll do

• Leading workstreams across strategy, growth, operating model, and transformation engagements from problem definition through implementation planning
• Managing day-to-day engagement activities, project plans, risks, deliverables, and stakeholder communications across cross-functional teams
• Facilitating workshops and meetings with client stakeholders to align on priorities, decisions, and next steps
• Coaching junior practitioners, reviewing work product, and maintaining quality across deliverables

The team
Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Strategy offering architects bold strategies to achieve business and mission goals, enabling growth, competitive advantage, technology modernization, and continuous digital and AI transformation.

Qualifications
Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of relevant experience in higher education setting, either in the higher education consulting industry or in strategic, operational, and/or managerial roles as an employee of a higher education institution or institutions
• 3+ years of experience leading project teams or workstreams
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

•  Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams, hit deadlines, and deliver client-ready work with limited supervision.
•  Proficiency with standard analytical and productivity tools (Excel, PowerPoint); hands-on experience with AI tools, prompting, or data analysis tools is strongly preferred.
• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and structuring open-ended questions into analyzable components.
• Demonstrated ability to translate analysis into defensible, realistic, and actionable recommendations, both strategic and operational, to improve our clients' performance.