Job Description

Job Description

Co-Creation Facilitator

Organization: Corporate Function/Marketing + Communications
Location: Atlanta, NY, Chicago, Austin and San Francisco

Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions underpinned by the worlds largest delivery network Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With over 500,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Corporate Functions Marketing + Communications

As part of this team, youll play a key role in helping Accenture execute its strategy. Youll work with a diverse team of innovative marketing experts who focus on the following areas: global brand management and advertising; global events and sponsorships; internal communications; marketing research; media and industry analyst relations; corporate and financial communications; internet marketing; recruitment marketing; client-centric marketing; and industry, service line and geographic marketing campaigns.

YOUR ROLE: Co-Creation Facilitator

Were Brand Co-Creation a swat team of heroic problem-solvers on Accentures Global Brand team.

What is Co-Creation, you ask? You might know it as Design Thinking, creative facilitation, planning or running workshops. Its all about creating and leading teams through highly facilitated activities that help solve problems by moving along a journey from discovery and ideation to creating testable solutions all in a fast-paced, highly interactive environment.

Were looking for a Co-Creation Facilitator to join our team someone who gets butterflies when theyre given a problem their peers dread a problem that can only be solved by Co-Creation processes and activities.

Is this you?

As our new Co-Creation Facilitator, youll get support and coaching from our Leads as you host initial conversations [with internal and external clients] to draw out the problem then youll take a first pass at designing a program [run-of-show] to rapidly ideate and validate high quality ideas. After coaching from a Lead, youll facilitate the session with their support over time, becoming front-and-center as you help groups get to a set of recommendations. Youll also get to work with fascinating experts from all over the world AI-wizards, culture-shapers and CEO-whisperers in every industry from biotech to automotive.

If this is you, it means your facilitation skills are developing. You confidently lead small groups and youre eager to lead larger, more senior programs. You ask insightful questions that get to the root of a nuanced problem without jumping to an answer. You have a point-of-view on how to turn big business problems into bite-sized group exercises leading to clear, actionable outcomes. You see through the noise and actively listen to understand the real problem, making the complex simple, in real time.

Like us, youre an optimistic-strategist you can be a dreamer, a realist and a critic all in the same day. Youre genuinely curious about how businesses run and operate the new business models, products, systems and technology that change the way people work and live. You think like an entrepreneur, finding needs and filling needs and looking for ways to de-risk projects through experimentation.

Youre highly attuned to the needs of others and even in a room of dominant personalities you help everyone feel comfortable and safe to share especially in high pressure situations. You support and challenge others to think critically while keeping an open mind and removing your own ego.

For being such a big thinker, youre also surprisingly rigorous about the details youre very Steve Jobs-y in that way. In a workshop you have backup plans for each exercise and each potential tech fail and know the agenda minute-by-minute. We welcome your ambition!

Do you secretly wish you had your own TED Talk or helped other people create theirs? Thats a good sign. We need our Facilitators to be actively developing their communication skills crafting strategy decks that tell a powerful written and visual story and finding the most unique messages in a sea of content. Youll create a point-of-view on each readout and seek coaching from a Lead before delivering to clients.

If this sounds like you, wed love for you to apply

Our Co-Creation people come from many different backgrounds. You might be a strategist or consultant at a Design Thinking agency like Frog, Ideo, Fjord or ?WhatIf!. You might be an entrepreneur freelancing or running your own agency or startup. You might have certifications or a masters degree in Design Thinking or you might be self-taught, going to conferences and geeking out on business books.

If youre ready to bring your authentic self to work, pay attention to including others especially where it is challenging, embrace positive conflict as a way of building trust, listen to understand , challenge your own biases and treat yourself and others with kindness this is the place for you.

If youre up for the challenge, wed love to meet you!

Qualifications

Qualifications - External

YOUR EXPERIENCE: Basic Qualifications

* Minimum of 4+ years of overall work experience
* Minimum of 2+ years of experience working on co-creation-based programs.

Professional Skills

* Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian
* Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU

* Your entrepreneurial spirit and vision will be rewarded, and your success will fuel opportunities for career advancement.
* Youll make a difference for some pretty impressive clients. Accenture serves many of the Fortune Global 100 on high-profile projects.
* Opportunities to learn daily through training, assignments, and collaborating with experts across the company.
* Access to leading-edge technology.
* Along with a competitive salary, Accenture offers a comprehensive package including generous paid time off, an employee healthcare plan and a competitive 401K program. Learn more about our extensive rewards and benefits here.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

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Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

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Other Employment Statements

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture.
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information.

Unless expressly indicated, this role is not open in the state of Colorado.

Locations

CA - San Francisco,GA - Atlanta,IL - Chicago,NY - New York,TX - Austin

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