Emerging Policy & Facilitation Consultant

Blackbird Strategies; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental benefits

Paid time off

Professional development opportunities

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Blackbird Strategies is seeking a Consultant who can fluidly move between facilitation and research. This early-career role lets you run client sessions, synthesize information for engagements, and act as a knowledge worker within our facilitation practice.

You will design agendas, capture decisions, and turn room outputs into client-ready materials while building government relations and policy analysis skills in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of relevant experience (internships, co-ops, or academic research count).
• Strong writing and synthesis skills; you can turn a messy pile of information into a clear brief.
• Comfort in a room: note-taking, gentle facilitation support, or co-leading sessions.
• Curiosity about government relations, public policy, and Indigenous affairs.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-directed.
• A degree in political science, public policy, communications, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Facilitation: Support client workshops, stakeholder sessions, and internal strategy discussions.
• Facilitation: Help design agendas, discussion guides, and engagement materials.
• Facilitation: Capture key takeaways, decisions, and action items from sessions.
• Facilitation: Organize session outputs, precedents, and templates for future files.
• Research: Prepare briefing notes, environmental scans, and issue backgrounders.
• Research: Scan for social licence and political risks that shape client realities.
• Research: Track legislative, regulatory, and political developments relevant to client files.

Skills

Writing & synthesis

Facilitation

Note-taking

Policy curiosity

Education

Degree in political science/public policy/communications

Job description

Blackbird Strategies is seeking a Consultant who can fluidly move between facilitation and research. This early-career role lets you run client sessions, synthesize information for engagements, and act as a knowledge worker within our facilitation practice.

You will design agendas, capture decisions, and turn room outputs into client-ready materials while building government relations and policy analysis skills in a collaborative environment.