Manager

Role Overview

• Manage the day-to-day execution of multiple client engagements simultaneously, ensuring quality, timeliness, and attention to detail across all workstreams
• Analyze qualitative and quantitative data—including interview findings, financial trends, survey results, and organizational dynamics—and synthesize insights into clear, compelling recommendations
• Lead and facilitate client work sessions, interviews, and presentations, as appropriate to the project and in collaboration with senior team members
• Prepare client-facing materials including reports, slide decks, and memos that translate complex analysis into clear narrative
• Work closely with Principals, Senior Consultants, and Analysts in small, integrated project teams
• Contribute to internal knowledge development, firm-building activities, and the ongoing refinement of CFAR's tools and methods
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through day-to-day project work
• Begin developing familiarity with CFAR's business development approach in preparation for expanded responsibilities over time

Requirements

• A minimum of five years of professional experience
• Advanced degree in an area such as business, organizational psychology, public health, anthropology, healthcare administration, public administration, economics, or other social sciences
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-workstream projects with rigor and attention to detail
• Strong analytical skills, including experience with qualitative data synthesis; comfort with quantitative and financial analysis preferred
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present findings clearly to senior client audiences
• The ability to read both what is explicitly stated and what is tacitly at play in organizational settings—and to bring that insight to bear in service of the client
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to operate effectively across multiple projects and competing priorities
• A collaborative working style and genuine curiosity about how organizations and the people within them work
• Experience within management consulting, organizational advisory work, or a closely related client-facing field preferred
• Demonstrated ability to write and speak to both client and broader professional audiences preferred
• Familiarity with the types of organizations CFAR serves: healthcare, higher education, family enterprises, owner-led businesses, foundations, and other mission-driven entities preferred
• Experience with survey design and statistical analysis preferred
• Experience with financial analysis preferred

Benefits

• robust medical, dental, life, disability, and vision coverage
• parental leave
• generous paid vacation
• numerous paid holidays
• company-wide breaks around Thanksgiving and the December holidays
• tax-advantaged retirement savings plans with voluntary contribution options
• range of investment choices
• professional development through dedicated supervisors
• annual feedback opportunities
• personalized development goals
• company retreats