Consulting Services Associate

Partners for Sacred Places is seeking a Chicago-based, full-time Consulting Services Associate to support our Executive Vice President and our Senior Director of Consulting Services. You’ll join a creative, national nonprofit dedicated to preserving historic sacred places and keeping them in active community use. The associate will receive training in Partners’ consulting work and help with feasibility studies and capital campaigns.

Our Consulting Services include feasibility studies ahead of capital campaigns, capital campaign management, community engagement, economic impact studies, and building planning around space use and design.

Responsibilities

• Support the Executive Vice President and Senior Director of Consulting Services with project planning, scheduling, and communication with staff and clients
• Manage the Executive Vice President’s calendar, meetings, and travel arrangements
• Anticipate needs and prepare meeting materials and reports
• Follow up with prospective clients
• Maintain client records in Excel and Asana
• Help prepare presentations, webinars, proposals, contracts, and reports
• Attend client meetings and events as needed
• Support special projects and other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Self-starter with initiative, curiosity, and creativity
• Strong organizational, research, and written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in, or ability to quickly learn, Google Workspace, Asana, Calendly, Zoom, PowerPoint/Canva/Google Slides, and CRM software such as eTapestry
• Works well as part of a team with both staff and clients
• Comfortable representing a secular organization with clients from a range of religious traditions
• Ability to travel
• Experience or interest in development or fundraising
• An appreciation of architecture and historic preservation is a plus
• Project management experience

Benefits: Paid time off, company-paid health insurance, 403(b) retirement plan

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