Senior Consultant, Strategic Alignment
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Senior Strategic Alignment Consultant helping OSC Utah leaders operationalize institutional strategy. Managing innovation pilots, governance materials, and enterprise alignment across functions.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the Director, Strategic Alignment to extend strategic frameworks, decision-readiness standards, and innovation practices across the institution
- Equip Functional Leaders with strategic thinking tools and approaches
- Build strategic planning and decision-readiness tools and templates
- Partner on active strategic initiatives
- Translate institutional strategy into concrete, actionable functional plans
- Co-develop function-level plans during annual and off-cycle planning cycles
- Identify cross-functional dependencies, overlaps, and gaps
- Manage the innovation lifecycle from idea through validation, pilot, and enterprise adoption
- Screen and triage incoming ideas against defined criteria
- Support submitters in sharpening problem definitions and expected value
- Design pilot structures, including scope, success criteria, timelines, and evaluation approaches
- Track pilot progress, risks, pipeline health, and progression
- Document pilot learnings and route them into enterprise planning
- Prepare structured summaries and materials for Operations Council and related governance forums
- Maintain documentation of strategic decisions, rationale, and follow-up actions
- Partner with Finance, PMO, Operational Excellence, and Enterprise Operations on approved initiative handoffs
Requirements:
- Master's degree in organizational development, business, education, or related field required
- 5 to 7+ years of experience in strategy, organizational planning, innovation, consulting, or institutional effectiveness
- Demonstrated ability to influence leaders without formal authority over them
- Strong facilitation skills; comfortable running working sessions with senior stakeholders
- Working knowledge of business case development, ROI framing, and decision-readiness criteria
- Experience in highly regulated academic or healthcare environments preferred




















