About ECOnorthwest

ECOnorthwest is experiencing rapid growth and we are seeking a curious and collaborative person to join our team. If you seek to make an impact through social, economic, or urban policy, this is your place! Our interdisciplinary team provides rigorous data analysis and content expertise to guide policymakers, practitioners, and business and community leaders toward innovative policy solutions. We explain the evidence, give our clients fresh ways to understand enduring challenges, and suggest options to improve policymaking in an era of high need, finite resources, and tough politics.

Our work and clients address some of the most important questions of our time: How can schools educate all students effectively? Which housing and social services programs or services work and for whom? How do we raise incomes and lower housing costs? What policies drive economic mobility, and how do communities promote more equitable growth? How can we close the racial wealth gap? How can governments and communities deliver services efficiently and direct resources to those in most need, in a time of economic and fiscal uncertainty?

Our team’s recent projects include:

● Identifying workforce gaps in Denver’s natural resource management sector and equity-centered opportunities to fill identified gaps for the city’s Office of Climate Action Sustainability and Resiliency.

● Making recommendations to the State of Washington on creating an equity assessment tool for use in reviewing legislative bills

● Making policy recommendations for reducing racial disparities in homeownership in Washington

● Understanding the amount of wealth lost because of redlining and racially restrictive covenants in King County

● Identifying strategies to help create an inclusive downtown, welcoming to BIPOC-owned businesses, in downtown Beaverton

● Developing scenario models and data visualization tools that estimate and display national and state-level postsecondary outcomes through 2040 and support strategic planning for the Lumina Foundation.

● Modeling the cost and workforce implications of expanding Washington’s subsidized childcare system.

Job Description

A driving force behind ECOnorthwest’s success is the presence of skilled and dedicated Project Managers. Under the guidance of senior staff, ECOnorthwest Project Managers are responsible for implementing and managing project work, including delegation to Research Analysts and Associates. Project Managers interface with clients, manage deliverables and budgets, track and focus on profitable project delivery. Project Managers manage upwards to senior team members and are involved in business development. They may manage multiple projects and proposal efforts simultaneously, balancing time and resources across projects.

We are seeking a project manager who can provide leadership in implementing ECOnorthwest’s equity framework on client projects. Our dream candidate will provide guidance and support to clients and internal staff in identifying policies, practices, and other factors that result in inequitable outcomes, and how to remedy those inequities. The project manager will explore and recommend evidence-based practices, policy ideas, and interventions that achieve employment equity, close the racial wealth gap, and foster equitable economic growth.

Essential Responsibilities

● Lead projects from proposal through completion, creating schedules, scopes, budget estimates, project implementation plans, and final deliverables.

● Coordinate internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and budget.

● Establish and maintain relationships with clients, providing regular contact on project status and changes.

● Ensure that the research process aligns with ECOnorthwest’s mission and statement of research integrity.

● Support the implementation of ECOnorthwest’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Framework throughout every phase of each project.

● In collaboration with a Project Director or independently as appropriate, facilitates client and stakeholder meetings and presents findings and conclusions.

Required Skills and Qualifications

● Undergraduate degree

● Minimum of five years relevant professional experience (Master’s degree may substitute for two years of experience), including experience with:

● Managing the production of written deliverables

● Working with clients

● Developing scopes and budgets

● Demonstrated excellent written and oral presentation skills

● Ability to understand and communicate the strategic and political implications and consequences of work in written deliverables and presentations

● Ability to communicate complex technical findings in written deliverables and presentations

● Experience interpreting research

● Data analysis (qualitative and/or quantitative)

● Proactively contributes to a collegial and inclusive work environment

● Intellectual curiosity and the desire to seek out new ideas and solutions

● Ability to manage competing priorities effectively

Preferred Qualifications

● Master’s Degree

● Experience in equity analysis or in programs or policies that promote equity

● Expertise in qualitative data collection and analysis

● Knowledgeable of equity-related issues, legislation, and best practices and continually pursuing knowledge of effective diversity, equity and inclusion practices

Location

ECOnorthwest offers a hybrid work schedule. To ensure opportunities for collaboration and teamwork, employees are expected to prioritize in-office work Tuesday through Thursday.

Salary and Benefits

The salary for this full-time exempt position will be commensurate with experience and market rates, roughly ranging from $83,000 to $97,000. This position is eligible for full company benefits including medical/dental/life/disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, 401(k), and paid holidays. The position is also eligible for quarterly production bonuses and year-end profit sharing.

Deadline

Open until filled.

DEI Statement

ECONorthwest is committed to the work of improving its diversity and inclusiveness as a workplace. Our best work draws on teams within and beyond ECONorthwest who have diverse backgrounds and experiences that reflect the communities we work with. Thus, we actively seek applicants who would expand the diversity of lived experiences within our team.

Required Application Materials

Please submit a cover letter and resume in PDF format. Please address in the cover letter the ways in which you meet the requirements for the position you are applying for, and how your lived and professional experiences can help ECOnorthwest deliver high-quality products to our clients.

Established in 1974, ECOnorthwest has over three decades of experience helping clients make sound decisions based on rigorous economic, planning, and financial analysis. ECOnorthwest provides professional economics, planning, and financial consulting services and expert testimony for a wide variety of private and public sector clients throughout the United States and worldwide.

For more information visit: http://www.econw.com

ECOnorthwest is not a sponsoring organization.

ECOnorthwest requires employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

ECOnorthwest is an Equal Opportunity Employer

ECOnorthwest is committed to the work of improving its diversity and inclusiveness as a workplace. Our best work draws on teams within and beyond ECOnorthwest who have diverse backgrounds and experiences that reflect the multifaceted communities we work in. Thus, we encourage applicants who would expand the diversity of lived experiences within our team and who share our values and commitments to advancing equity through research and data justice.