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Ellucian is hiring an Advancement Functional Consultant to guide higher education institutions through fundraising, alumni engagement, and advancement operations projects. Working within Ellucian's Professional Services team, this consultant partners with customers through discovery, configuration, training, and deployment of Ellucian Advancement solutions. The role serves as a trusted functional advisor, translating complex advancement needs into practical, adoptable solutions.

Highlights

Run discovery sessions and functional workshops to define business requirements and future-state solutions
Translate customer requirements into Ellucian Advancement configurations and functional solution designs
Advise customers on process improvements that strengthen data quality, reporting readiness, and user adoption
Configure, validate, and demonstrate Ellucian Advancement functionality for customer teams
Deliver instructor-led and virtual training to functional, administrative, and technical audiences
Troubleshoot complex functional and integration issues by evaluating processes, configuration, and data
Contribute to data mapping, conversion, and migration validation for customer implementations

Advancement Functional Consultant Full Description

About Ellucian

Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff.

About the Opportunity

Join Ellucian's Professional Services team as an Advancement Functional Consultant, partnering with higher education institutions to transform how they manage fundraising, constituent relationships, alumni engagement, and advancement operations. In this customer-facing role, you will guide institutions through discovery, solution design, configuration, testing, training, and deployment of Ellucian Advancement solutions.

This is a consulting role for a professional who can independently lead functional conversations, translate complex advancement needs into practical solutions, and serve as a trusted functional advisor. You will collaborate with project managers, technical consultants, product teams, and other cross-functional partners.

Where You Will Make an Impact

Serve as a trusted functional advisor to higher education customers across fundraising, philanthropy, alumni relations and engagement, constituent management, communications, and related operations
Lead discovery sessions and functional workshops to understand current-state processes and define future-state solutions
Translate customer requirements into effective Ellucian Advancement configurations and functional solution designs
Advise customers on process improvements that strengthen operational efficiency, data quality, and solution adoption
Configure, validate, and demonstrate Ellucian Advancement functionality; guide customers through design decisions
Deliver engaging instructor-led and virtual training for functional, administrative, and technical audiences
Troubleshoot complex functional and integration-related issues, identifying root causes and recommending solutions
Lead or contribute to data mapping, conversion and migration validation, functional testing, and go-live activities
Manage assigned consulting deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and risks using Smartsheet or similar tools
Document functional requirements, solution decisions, configurations, and customer-facing recommendations

What You Will Bring

Experience in advancement or related functions, with expertise across fundraising, alumni relations, advancement services, constituent management, or reporting
Strong understanding of advancement business processes and the ability to connect institutional goals with technology solutions
Ability to translate complex business requirements into functional configurations and clearly documented solution decisions
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills across business processes, configuration, data, and integrations
Strong facilitation, presentation, and consultative communication skills for functional, administrative, executive, and technical audiences
Experience delivering training, demonstrations, or knowledge-transfer sessions in instructor-led or virtual environments
Strong organizational and consulting delivery skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and operate with a high degree of autonomy
Experience working collaboratively across functional and technical teams in a primarily remote environment
Willingness to travel up to 25% to support customer implementations, workshops, and training

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated experience leading discovery, requirements-gathering, or solution-design discussions
Experience with CRM Advance or other advancement products and solutions
Experience implementing, administering, or consulting on advancement CRM or constituent relationship management platforms
Experience with data conversion, migration validation, functional testing, and user acceptance testing

Benefits

Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
Flexible time off and a Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account
401k with match, parental leave, and charitable days
Wellness programs including Headspace Care and Wellbeats
Diversity and inclusion programs and employee referral bonuses
Education Assistance Program, professional development, and LinkedIn Learning

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