30 Sep
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Junxion
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Toronto
Junxion is currently looking for a Senior Consultant to be based in Toronto, with experience supporting businesses to achieve the B Corp Certification.
About Junxion Strategy Junxion is a fractional strategy partner for purpose-led boards, CEOs, and their teams. From offices in Vancouver, Toronto, and London we’ve supported over 600 clients on five continents, who tackle everything from AIDS to Net Zero.
Through our integrated suite of services, we help businesses and nonprofits to navigate complexity, deepen resilience, and drive sustainable growth.
About the Role At Junxion, Senior Consultants are responsible for leading or supporting client projects across our integrated suite of services, supporting our clients’ work to lead their sectors. Candidates have 7+ years of experience, including expertise in social purpose, strategy and planning, impact measurement, sustainability, and/or related public disclosures and reporting.
We’re currently looking for a Senior Consultant to be based in Toronto, with experience supporting businesses to achieve the B Corp Certification—ideally through the new standards, and who has achieved the B Consultant certification (or is working towards it).
The job is full-time, 37.5 hours a week. It is beginning as a cover for a parental leave, but may be extended if the right candidate fits our culture and contributes well to our clients’ success.
Successful candidates generally hold graduate degrees in business or other fields related to Junxion’s work, and are people who thrive in a semi-remote, purpose-led environment and bring to life our values of courage, generosity, curiosity, and fun in their work.
Key Working Relationships In Canada, Junxion Senior Consultants report to the Consulting Director, working in collaboration with Junxion colleagues and associates in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada and London, UK. They also work directly with clients, prospects and partners, and engage with external contractors and suppliers.
Key Responsibilities Consulting Engagements
Manage client relationships and lead or deliver projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered to the agreed time scale, quality standards and budget
Keep colleagues and clients informed of developments and resolve issues as they arise, resulting in successful projects and leading to further work
Contribute to all stages of projects including kick-off meetings, research, strategy and delivery
Implement business, marketing and CSR strategies and programmes
Draft and edit sustainability/CSR reports, position papers, and other communications
Research relevant issues, and analyse, synthesise and present findings in papers and reports
Apply specialist knowledge to client work, including one or more of sustainability strategy, reporting, impact measurement, branding, and marketing communications
Work closely with specialist consultants, designers and web developers to present project outputs in print or online
New Business Development
Develop new business opportunities with existing clients and new prospects that support
Junxion’s mission to help leaders build the success stories of the next economy
Write quality proposals and presentations to pitch for work from prospective clients
Conduct sector scans and benchmarking, gathering insights to inform proposals and presentations
Market Junxion to external audiences and contribute to our marketing plan
Propose, research and write articles for the Junxion website and newsletter
Represent Junxion at meetings, events and online, including social media.
Project Management
Working with Junxion’s Project Manager, design and plan projects, including preparing work breakdown structures, proposing how time and resources are allocated and managing relationships with specialist consultants, designers and web developers
Support planning week-to-week resource allocation of the staff and associates in the Vancouver and/or Toronto office across all projects
Other Responsibilities
Keep up-to-date with developments and trends in social innovation, social purpose in business, CSR and sustainability, social enterprise, and related communications norms and standards to inform and improve Junxion services and products
Support and promote existing Junxion services, products and tools, and contribute to developing new ones
Contribute to developing processes and systems that enhance how Junxion operates and delivers our work
Support and contribute to development of our values-aligned, anchored in our core values of generosity, courage, curiosity, and fun
Adhere to Junxion policies and procedures
Skills & Attributes Overall, you are…
Values-aligned
Ambitious for the role of business in meeting sustainability challenges
Empathetic about the constraints our clients face An independent, strategic thinker, able to synthesise information, produce robust analysis and communicate with clarity
Able to exercise sound judgement in the face of conflicting pressures and deadlines
Able to work with a high degree of autonomy
Ready to develop your own client relationships
Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Flexible about your work workplace and being part of an international team
Your Knowledge, Training and Qualifications
University degree (Masters preferred) with a focus on sustainability, CSR, business or marketing/communications
Understanding of CSR and/or sustainability issues and/or entrepreneurship and/or intrapreneurship and/or organizational structure and governance models and practices
Knowledge of the Global Reporting Initiative, B Corp and other impact measurement, corporate disclosure and reporting frameworks
Awareness and evidence of engagement on issues of social entrepreneurship, CSR, social justice and/or environmental sustainability
Your Experience
Minimum seven years working in a corporate or consulting firm / agency, social purpose / socially responsible business, NGO, or international development organisation
Experience managing consulting engagements, including client projects
Experience working with management in the corporate and / or social sectors
Experience designing and facilitating workshops and / or meetings
Experience writing for a range of audiences across a number of platforms
Experience conducting exploratory/investigative interviews
Project Management skills and experience are desirable assets
Your Particular Skills and Attributes
Can communicate confidently and deliver proposals and presentations or speak at public events
Excellent critical thinking and analysis skills
Excellent writing and editing skills, specifically the ability to produce clear, well-structured papers, reports and proposals for different audiences and to tight deadlines
Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Google Workspace suite and Keynote
Strong existing network and experience with CRMs an asset
Experience with Appreciative Inquiry or other social research methodologies an asset
Some More Details We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and lived experiences. If you’re excited by the opportunity to connect strategic consulting, sales, and marketing in service of positive impact, we’d love to hear from you.
English fluency is required. French fluency will be valued highly in this role.
Salaries for Junxion’s Senior Consultants range from CAD $85 – 125K, commensurate with experience and progressing based on a comprehensive assessment of values-aligned performance.
If you meet most, but not all of these criteria, we encourage you to apply. Ultimately, we’re looking for values-aligned people to join our team.
📌 Senior Consultant, Toronto
🏢 Junxion
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