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Organization

Founded in 2000 and incubated at Bain & Company, the Bridgespan Group is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization bringing leading-edge strategies and tools to the challenges and opportunities facing nonprofit organizations and foundations. While the tools and frameworks used in the for-profit world provide a powerful starting point for creating this critical impact, the nonprofit sector requires different and distinctive strategies to produce the desired results. Bridgespan exists to apply the best thinking to the task of building stronger and more effective nonprofit organizations.

In addition to consulting, Bridgespan pursues its mission through two initiatives:

* Knowledge sharing-codifying and disseminating insights from consulting engagements, tools and frameworks to help improve the practice and performance of nonprofits and foundations.
* Bridgestar- talent matching services, content and tools to help organizations build strong leadership teams and individuals pursue career paths as nonprofit leaders.

For more information, please visit http://www.bridgespan.org.

Position
Associate Consultants (ACs) are a vital part of the Bridgespan Group's core consulting strength, working as members of case teams to provide nonprofit clients with powerful data and analyses that identify solutions to their greatest challenges - thus enhancing organizations' abilities to drive social change.

Organization

Founded in 2000 and incubated at Bain & Company, the Bridgespan Group is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization bringing leading-edge strategies and tools to the challenges and opportunities facing nonprofit organizations and foundations. While the tools and frameworks used in the for-profit world provide a powerful starting point for creating this critical impact, the nonprofit sector requires different and distinctive strategies to produce the desired results. Bridgespan exists to apply the best thinking to the task of building stronger and more effective nonprofit organizations.

In addition to consulting, Bridgespan pursues its mission through two initiatives:

* Knowledge sharing-codifying and disseminating insights from consulting engagements, tools and frameworks to help improve the practice and performance of nonprofits and foundations.
* Bridgestar- talent matching services, content and tools to help organizations build strong leadership teams and individuals pursue career paths as nonprofit leaders.

For more information, please visit http://www.bridgespan.org.

Position

Consultants work as members of case teams, developing high-impact strategies and implementation plans for our nonprofit clients. Consultants typically develop independent work plans, perform data-driven analysis and take ownership for significant portions of client work. They are often assigned to members of the client team, which facilitates the development of strong client relationships. Consultants are expected to quickly take on team and client leadership responsibilities.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT to assist the Administration for Children’s Services in conducting research into practices of policies and procedures and to write and update documents based on any changes in practices. The selected consultant will work closely with other divisions’ staff to gather pertinent information and will work independently to update the changes in procedural documents. The updated documents will be used by Children’s Services staff as well as the staff of the provider agencies.

For this assignment, the Division of Policy and Planning is requesting one experienced consultant with knowledge of Child Welfare systems and who has excellent research and writing skills.