ERS Careers
Available positions:
Associate
Communications Campaign Manager
Contractor
Data Analyst
Principal Associate
Education Resource Strategies is a non-profit strategy consulting firm that works with large urban public school systems. We are transforming education by helping leaders strategically use resources to improve student learning. Today’s schools face the unprecedented challenge of dramatically raising their performance while weathering the most severe economic downturn in generations. Districts have two choices: do less with less, or take dramatic steps to create a transformed system that generates better results. We are the only organization in the country with over 10 years of experience collaborating with the largest urban districts in this important area of strategic resource allocation.
What makes ERS unique?
- Our analytical approach: The core of our practice is to provide in-depth strategic and analytic support to leaders of large urban school systems. We do this by combining extensive knowledge of school systems and educational theory and practice with intensive, quantitative financial and data analysis. To support this work, we have developed analytic techniques, methodologies for mapping resources, and metrics for gauging performance that provide our clients with a unique perspective on how they deploy resources to support their priorities. This unique perspective, combined with ERS developed web and excel based decision support tools, provides district and school leaders clear and actionable information to develop solutions to resource allocation issues.
- Our collaborative client engagements: ERS’ client engagements are partnerships. We view it as part of our explicit mission to build client capacity to understand and implement effective resource practices. Successful engagements result in clients internalizing our methodology and approach into the way they do business. To accomplish that goal, our approach is very different from the typical grab data, crunch numbers, deliver a report model. Our client engagements frequently last over extended periods with significant contact, including working sessions where we collaboratively grapple over analysis to develop solutions and customized training.
- Our contribution to the national conversation: One of ERS’ primary missions is to influence the national conversation on district and school resource issues. Our working partnerships with school systems form the bridge between practice and research. Our relationship with clients provides us with access to a wealth of information not otherwise publicly available and an unrivaled knowledge of the resource issues facing districts. This experience and the extensive comparative database of resource information and metrics for all of the districts in which we have worked form the foundation of our research and support tool development.
Our headquarters are in Watertown, MA, along the beautiful Charles River and conveniently located to Harvard Square and the Mass Pike. We have a unique work environment; we are committed to high quality in our work and committed to achieving that quality through a flexible environment that values work/life balance.
ERS is actively hiring for Associates and Principal Associates. We are looking for people who are passionate about education reform, rigorous analytic thinkers with a track record of accomplishment.
Please email resumes to:
Julie Derderian
jderderian@erstrategies.org
