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Scope Consultant
Consultant Job Description

It is often helpful to recruit a subject matter expert to assess your organizational needs and identify the particular pro bono project types that are suited to address those challenges. Consider an outside perspective to provide this expertise and test your assumptions. Look for thought partners with significant experience like an executive staff member, board member, or community volunteer. The role description below can assist you in finding a skilled volunteer to serve in this position.

Role Description

Project Scope Consultant

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Position Summary

The Project Scope Consultant will work closely with the organization and its management to conduct an assessment of its needs in a particular business function (e.g. finance, marketing, technology, HR) and apply subject matter expertise to structure a viable skills-based volunteering project that addresses the root organizational needs, positively impacts the organization’s infrastructure, and is feasible within a predetermined scope of time and resources.

Responsibilities

  • Apply expertise in a core business domain to help the organization assess its needs and scope suitable project types
  • Define the overall project objectives as well as the potential final deliverable and possible timeframe for the project to be completed
  • Work with the organization to determine defined expectations for the short-term and long-term projected results and impacts
  • Establish pre-requirements in terms of equipment, budget, etc. that the organization may need to have or be willing to find before starting the project
  • Describe the skills and the competencies the future volunteer(s) will need in order to successfully tackle the project

Qualifications and Skills Needed

  • Five to seven years of business experience in relevant core business function(s): Marketing, Finance, HR, Strategy, Operations, IT/Technology, Client Relations, Data and Analytics
  • Project management and definition experience
  • Excellent communication and listening skills

Skills and Competencies the Consultant Will Develop

  • Knowledge of the social sector and its constraints, challenges, and opportunities
  • Knowledge of volunteer management
  • Ability to develop feasible skills-based volunteering projects with part-time availability
  • Experience sharing expertise and teaching business notions and methodology
  • Leadership

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