Are you passionate about bringing people together to collaborate to innovate, drive organizational change, and build successful strategic initiatives? Do you believe that meeetings, working sessions or client engagements don't have to be dull, but can be opportunities to bring people together to connect, create, and share? Are you seeking a role where you will build your design thinking skills and capabilities as session designer and facilitator? And are you motivated to have impact beyond yourself -- for your team, for clients, and for the world?

If yes, you may be the right person to join RTI Innovation Advisors (RTI IA). Our team has been helping global corporate, federal, and foundation clients solve their toughest technology and innovation challenges for more than 50 years. As a consulting group within a mission-driven organization, we share your drive to make the world better and your desire for work with purpose: to solve challenges facing science and society, and to learn and grow in a diverse and inclusive global environment. We make that happen by investing in you-dynamic professional development, employee wellness, and world-class benefits which include paid parental leave and childcare subsidies. We empower you to accomplish our shared mission.

Our clients seek support with a broad range of innovation initiatives that are enabled by science and technology. Collaboration is imperative for innovation, but successful collaboration requires intentional planning and facilitation to navigate busy calendars, varied stakeholders, and hybrid work environments. We support our clients by designing and facilitating collaborative meetings and workshops that vary from one-hour touchpoints to multi-day facilitated sessions with dozens of stakeholders. All these engagements are delivered through human-centered design techniques which promote a focus on end-user need and balancing of diverse perspectives. We are looking for an Innovation Analyst who understands the value of collaboration, is creative and enthusiastic, and has the attention to detail needed to plan and prepare for and support facilitation of multi-stakeholder events.

We see our work as an act of service, and service as an opportunity to lead our clients along a journey to greater impact and our colleagues along a journey of professional growth. As a business unit of RTI International-an independent nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition-RTI IA provides an environment that promotes our values of quiet confidence, learning, collaborating, empowered by a culture of trust and respect, responsibility, and accountability. We are a collaborative, growing team, working in a matrixed way, where diverse perspectives are valued and professional growth opportunities abound.

Who You Are

Because you'll guide our clients through their strategic initiatives and transformations, you'll bring a solid background in innovation and business management. In addition, you

• Have an emergent ability to facilitate groups of stakeholders through group discussion and collaborative exercises, especially for group decision making or experiential learning; value the ability to ask good questions.
• Are comfortable speaking up in group settings and maintain composure in high-stakes or high-stress conversations, keeping the discussion on target and working through complexity and ambiguity to help your team move forward.
• Possess strong oral and written capabilities, English fluency, and an ability to distill key messages from group discussions; must have strong MS PowerPoint skills.
• Approach your work with a spirit of experimentation and learning, demonstrating a commitment to productive teamwork through giving and receiving feedback, engaging in personal growth and professional development.
• Have a perspective on meetings and work that aligns with the principles of design thinking or human-centered design techniques and creative problem solving.
• Possess strong organizational skills that enable you to work well under the pressure of supporting multiple clients, projects, and deadlines.

What You'll Do

We are seeking candidates with skills and experience to

• Work with our internal experts in human-centered design and facilitation to design workshops, set agendas, and plan client engagements.
• Create exercise materials based on the workshop design, including PowerPoint slides, poll questions, printed worksheets and posters, and virtual collaboration spaces designed and facilitated in MURAL.
• Manage logistics for virtual, hybrid, or in-person workshops and conference sessions ranging from 8 to 100+ participants, including participant invites, material printing and production, and logistics planning for facility or virtual platform access and refreshments for in-person sessions.
• Create client deliverables (e.g., reports and presentations), including writing summaries or workshops or recommendations informed by analysis completed by the RTI research team.

What You'll Bring

We recognize the value of your education and experience, which includes or is equivalent to

• Associate's degree with at least 6 years of experience (or equivalent education and experience, for example a bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience)
• Experience participating in or managing at least 5 different multi-stakeholder collaborative sessions in a virtual or hybrid setting us a videoconference platform and virtual whiteboard (MURAL or similar).
• A willingness to travel to headquarters in Research Triangle Park, N.C. and to client sites 8-12 times each year
• Authorization to work in the United States

Ideal candidates will also have:

• Certification as a practitioner of human-centered design from the LUMA Institute
• Education or experience in a design field; an eye for creating fresh and visually engaging PowerPoint slides and other workshop materials
• A desire to locate near our Research Triangle Park, N.C. headquarters as a hybrid employee working from the office 8 or more times per month
• Ability to work a flexible schedule; workshops with international participants may occur outside of standard U.S. working hours and in-person sessions that include social, team-building components in the evening may require a longer than 8-hour work day
• United States citizenship

For San Francisco, CA USA Job Postings Only: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Further information is available .

The anticipated pay range for this role is listed below. Our pay ranges represent national averages and may vary by location as a geographic differential may be applied to some locations within the United States.

RTI considers multiple factors when making an offer including, for example: established salary range, internal budget, business needs, and education and years of work experience possessed by the applicant. Further, salary is merely one element to our offer.

At RTI, we demonstrate our commitment to rewarding individual and team achievement through a total rewards package. This package includes (among other things) a competitive base salary, a generous paid time off policy, merit based annual increases, bonus opportunities and a robust recognition program. Other benefits include a competitive range of insurance plans (including health, dental, life, and short-term and long-term disability), access to a retirement savings program such as a 401(k) plan, paid parental leave for all parents, financial assistance with adoption expenses or infertility treatments, financial reimbursement for education and developmental opportunities, an employee assistance program, and numerous other offerings to support a healthy work-life balance.