Senior Consultant

About DRG

DRG serves purpose-driven organizations that care for, inspire, and enrich the lives of people all over the world. Our team shares a commitment to the values that matter to our clients, bringing more than 30 years of experience serving the nonprofit community.

DRG partners with nonprofit, foundation, and social sector organizations to address complex organizational challenges related to strategy, teams, and partnerships. Our mission is to support organizations in bringing together the right leadership, talent, culture, and structure – so people and organizations can thrive together.

The Role

DRG seeks a Senior Consultant to lead a varied portfolio of client engagements across four service areas: Executive Search and Transition, Strategy and Growth, Team Culture and Organizational Design, and Collaborations and Partnerships. This person will bring deep knowledge of the Jewish communal landscape—its institutions and networks, and the executives, professionals, lay leaders, and funders who shape it—and translate that expertise into thoughtful analysis, practical recommendations, strong client relationships, and effective implementation support.

The Senior Consultant will serve as a trusted advisor to boards and senior leaders, directing project teams and managing engagements from discovery and scoping through analysis, recommendations, and implementation. Depending on client needs and their expertise, they may lead or contribute to leadership searches and succession planning; strategic, business model, and sustainability planning; organizational design, HR, culture, leadership development, and compensation consulting; and board development, governance, mergers, partnerships, and collaborative initiatives.

What You’ll Do

Lead Client Engagements

Lead multiple consulting engagements, managing scope, timelines, project teams, deliverables, budgets, and client communication to provide a rigorous process and a high-quality client experience.
Partner with boards, senior leaders, and project teams to understand organizational mission, culture, strategy, and operational needs; facilitate stakeholder conversations and translate findings into clear project priorities.
Design engagement approaches that combine research, qualitative and quantitative analysis, stakeholder input, and practical implementation planning.
Conduct interviews, facilitate meetings, analyze information, and develop clear recommendations, reports, presentations, and decision-making tools.
Guide clients through complex decisions, build alignment among stakeholders, and support successful implementation and organizational change.
Maintain accurate project records and timely follow-up, protect confidential information, and integrate diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging throughout the work.

Bring Jewish Communal Expertise and Relationships

Apply deep knowledge of the Jewish communal ecosystem, including federations, community centers, foundations, human service agencies, educational and cultural institutions, religious organizations, and advocacy organizations.
Build and maintain trusted relationships with Jewish communal executives, emerging leaders, lay leaders, funders, and other connectors; draw on these relationships to understand organizational needs, gather perspectives, and develop relevant solutions.
Advise clients on sector trends, talent and leadership pipelines, governance dynamics, compensation practices, and organizational challenges.
Navigate the range of religious, cultural, ideological, and organizational perspectives across Jewish communal life with discretion, curiosity, and respect.

Deliver Consulting Across Service Areas

Executive search and transition: Lead executive and interim leadership searches, transition and succession planning, and leadership onboarding engagements. Guide organizational discovery, position development, candidate research and outreach, assessment, selection, reference checking, and offer discussions; advise clients and candidates throughout the process and ensure a thoughtful leadership transition.
Strategy and growth: Lead strategic planning, business model and sustainability planning, implementation and change management, and evaluation and impact assessment engagements. Design engagement approaches, guide research and stakeholder participation, synthesize findings, facilitate decision-making, and develop actionable recommendations, priorities, goals, measures, and implementation plans.
Team culture and organizational design: Lead engagements involving organizational design and restructuring, HR consulting and embedded HR support, culture assessment and change, HR policy and practice reviews, performance assessments and 360s, competency frameworks and role clarity, staff learning and leadership development, executive coaching, and compensation strategy and analysis. Direct project teams, guide assessment and analysis, facilitate sensitive conversations, and advise clients on practical approaches that align people, culture, and organizational strategy.
Collaborations and partnerships: Lead board development and governance consulting, board retreats, mergers, acquisitions, organizational spinoffs, partnership assessment and negotiation, and collaborative or multi-organization initiatives. Design and facilitate engagement processes, assess opportunities and organizational readiness, guide stakeholder alignment and decision-making, and develop recommendations and implementation plans that advance shared goals.

Build Relationships and Strengthen the Practice

Develop and implement a business development plan; cultivate prospective clients, maintain relationships with past clients and candidates, and identify opportunities across DRG’s services.
Contribute to proposals, pitches, engagement design, and sector-facing content; represent DRG through professional networks, events, and thought leadership.
Collaborate across executive search and organizational consulting, share sector knowledge, and help improve tools, methodologies, and service offerings.
Mentor colleagues and provide coaching, feedback, and project leadership; supervise team members when assigned.
Participate in firm meetings, internal learning, professional development, and staff gatherings.

Qualifications & Expertise

The ideal candidate brings substantial experience leading complex consulting engagements in areas such as executive search, strategic planning, compensation analysis, organizational design, nonprofit leadership, or related advisory work, together with deep knowledge of Jewish communal organizations and an established network within the field. We welcome candidates whose experience combines organizational leadership, analytical rigor, facilitation, and client advisory work.

Core Qualifications

At least 10 years of relevant professional experience in the social sector, including consulting, nonprofit leadership, executive search, client services, human resources, finance, or organizational development.
A master’s degree in business, nonprofit management, human resources, public administration, organizational development, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Deep understanding of Jewish communal organizations, their leadership and governance structures, and the relationships and networks that shape the sector.
Demonstrated ability to build trust with senior executives, boards, lay leaders, staff, and other stakeholders, and to handle sensitive relationships and confidential information with sound judgment.
Experience leading complex client engagements in one or more relevant areas, such as executive search, strategic planning, compensation analysis, organizational design, governance, succession, or team effectiveness.
Strong interviewing, listening, research, assessment, and analytical skills, including the ability to work with qualitative and quantitative information and communicate clear recommendations.
Excellent writing and presentation skills, including the ability to produce compelling proposals, analyses, reports, frameworks, and client deliverables.
Effective facilitation, project management, and client relationship skills; the ability to manage multiple engagements independently while collaborating across teams.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel; comfort using research, data, project management, and collaboration tools and applying AI thoughtfully to improve efficiency and quality.
A collaborative spirit, a sense of humor, and curiosity about how organizations and leaders can increase their impact.

Preferred Experience

Experience advising or working with Jewish communal organizations and leading significant organizational initiatives or consulting engagements.
Experience in two or more of the following areas: executive search, strategic planning, compensation analysis, organizational design, succession planning, leadership development, governance, or culture and team effectiveness.
Experience developing client relationships and contributing to business development.

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary for this position is $120,000–$135,000, depending on experience, with the opportunity to earn substantially more through DRG’s bonus, commission, and incentive programs. DRG also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

Health, dental, and vision insurance (DRG covers 100% of the base rate for all employees), plus complimentary access to supplemental health programs like Talkspace, Kindbody and One Medical
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Account options
Generous PTO policy (20 days) and expanded holiday/office closure calendar (27 days in 2026) for a total of 47 paid days away from the office annually
Early Friday office closures
401k with matching (after one year of employment)
Wellness stipend
Expanded Parental Leave
Home office set-up stipend
Professional development opportunities and annual company retreat
Sabbatical opportunities

Work Environment

This is a full-time, exempt position. Location is flexible; our staff work from home offices or shared workspaces near where they live. Travel at least once per year is expected for staff gatherings, and additional travel will be required depending on client needs. While most of our work happens within standard business hours, many of our clients are volunteers and some client meetings may occur during the evening or weekend hours.

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