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Advancement Functional Consultant - United States Remote

Ellucian · United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteInformation TechnologyFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the posting. First, "About Ellucian" is company description; not needed as a heading? The instruction: Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should have sections like About the role (maybe summarizing the opportunity), Responsibilities (the bullet list of duties), Requirements (maybe "What You Will Bring"), Qualifications (maybe "Preferred Qualifications"), Skills (maybe combine?), Benefits (the list under "What makes #Ellucianlife"), Pay (not present), Schedule (not present). We should not create Pay or Schedule sections if not present. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. There's none. We need to avoid repeating the job title as heading. The job title is "Advancement Functional Consultant". Not to be used as heading. We need to include a section only when posting has real specific content. Let's extract: About the role: The "About The Opportunity" paragraph(s). Could be considered About the role. We'll put that as

About the role

with paragraphs. Responsibilities: The list under "Where You Will Make an Impact" (starting with Serve as a trusted functional advisor...). Those are responsibilities. We'll put each bullet as
  • . Requirements: The "What You Will Bring" list (experience in advancement...). Those are requirements. Qualifications: The "Preferred Qualifications" list. Skills: Might be overlapping; but we could combine some skill items from Requirements and Qualifications? However we need a Skills section only if there is specific content. The posting includes many skill-like items within those lists. Could we create a Skills section pulling out skill-related items? But we must not invent or summarize away detail; we could just not include Skills if not explicitly separated. The instruction says use headings like Skills if there is content. Since there is no separate "Skills" heading, we might omit Skills section. Benefits: The list under "What makes #Ellucianlife". That's benefits. Pay: Not present. Schedule: Not present (though mentions willingness to travel up to 25% - that's not schedule). So omit. We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers. We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Let's craft. We need to preserve all substantive information: So we need to include all paragraphs and bullet points exactly as given, but we can wrap in

    or

  • . Ensure we don't lose any detail. Let's extract text. About Ellucian description: Might be considered company overview; not required as a heading but could be part of About the role? The instruction says use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, etc. The company description is not requested; but we must preserve ALL substantive information. However we are not to invent sections; we could include it as a

    before any heading? The instruction says output ONLY the HTML fragment; we can include

    elements outside headings. It didn't forbid extra paragraphs. So we can include the Ellucian overview as a

    before the About the role heading. But we need to check if that is considered boilerplate? It's company description, not boilerplate. So keep. Let's copy the Ellucian paragraph exactly: "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, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes." We'll put that in a

    . Then About the role heading: The "About The Opportunity" paragraph(s). Let's capture: "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, helping customers adopt effective practices and realize lasting value from their technology investment. This is a consulting role for a professional who can independently lead functional conversations, translate complex advancement needs into practical solutions, and you will serve as a trusted functional advisor, guiding institutions through discovery. You will collaborate with project managers, technical consultants, product teams, and other cross-functional partners to deliver successful implementations and strengthen Ellucian's advancement consulting practices." We'll put that in

    under

    About the role

    . Responsibilities: The bullet list under "Where You Will Make an Impact". Let's extract each bullet: - Serve as a trusted functional advisor to higher education customers, helping them align advancement strategy, business processes, and technology across fundraising, philanthropy, alumni relations and engagement, constituent management, communications, and related operations. - Lead discovery sessions and functional workshops to understand current-state processes, identify business requirements, uncover opportunities for improvement, and define future-state solutions. - Translate customer requirements into effective Ellucian Advancement configurations and functional solution designs that reflect product capabilities, implementation scope, and recommended practices. - Advise customers on process improvements that strengthen operational efficiency, data quality, user experience, reporting readiness, and solution adoption. - Configure, validate, and demonstrate Ellucian Advancement functionality; guide customers through design decisions and clearly communicate options, tradeoffs, and recommendations. - Deliver engaging instructor-led and virtual training for functional, administrative, and technical audiences, enabling customers to confidently use and administer their solution. - Troubleshoot complex functional and integration-related issues by evaluating business processes, system configuration, data, and system behavior; identify root causes and recommend appropriate solutions. - Lead or contribute to data mapping, conversion and migration validation, functional testing, user acceptance testing, deployment, go-live, and post-deployment stabilization activities. - Manage assigned consulting deliverables, milestones, dependencies, risks, and status using Smartsheet or similar project management tools, proactively communicating issues that may affect scope, schedule, or customer outcomes. - Collaborate with project managers, technical consultants, product teams, and other cross-functional partners to coordinate delivery and resolve implementation challenges. - Document functional requirements, solution decisions, configurations, testing outcomes, and customer-facing recommendations in a clear and reusable manner. - Contribute customer feedback, lessons learned, reusable assets, and recommended practices that improve Professional Services delivery, team capability, and the overall customer experience. - Mentor or provide functional guidance to less-experienced team members when appropriate, sharing advancement domain knowledge and consulting practices across the team. We'll wrap each in
  • inside a
      under

      Responsibilities

      . Requirements: The "What You Will Bring" list. Let's extract: - Experience in advancement or related functions, with demonstrated expertise across multiple areas such as fundraising, alumni relations, advancement services, constituent management, gift and pledge processing, campaigns and appeals, prospect or moves management, alumni engagement, constituent data management, communications, or reporting. - Strong understanding of advancement business processes and the ability to connect institutional goals with functional technology solutions. - Ability to translate complex business requirements into functional configurations, workflows, recommendations, and clearly documented solution decisions. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience diagnosing functional issues across business processes, configuration, data, and integrations. - Strong facilitation, presentation, and consultative communication skills, with the ability to guide discussions, manage differing perspectives, and explain complex concepts to functional, administrative, executive, and technical audiences. - Experience delivering training, demonstrations, workshops, or knowledge-transfer sessions in instructor-led or virtual environments. - Strong organizational and consulting delivery skills, including the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliverables, prioritize competing deadlines, identify risks, and operate effectively with a high degree of autonomy. - Ability to build credibility and strong customer relationships while balancing customer needs, product capabilities, implementation scope, and project objectives. - 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. We'll put under

      Requirements

      with
        . Qualifications: The "Preferred Qualifications" list: - Demonstrated experience leading discovery, requirements-gathering, process-design, or solution-design discussions and translating outcomes into actionable recommendations. - 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, reconciliation, functional testing, and user acceptance testing. - Experience with Smartsheet, Microsoft Excel, or comparable project tracking, analysis, and documentation tools. - Experience mentoring colleagues, developing reusable consulting assets, or contributing to implementation methodology and delivery practice improvements. We'll put under

        Qualifications

        with
          . Skills: Not present as separate; we could omit. Benefits: The list under "What makes #Ellucianlife". Let's extract each bullet (they are separated by line breaks). The text: "Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision Flexible time off Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future Parental Leave 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us Telemedicine Wellness Headspace Care (mental health) Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes) RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team We Foster a learning culture with: Education Assistance Program Professional development opportunities LinkedIn Learning" We need to preserve all. We'll put each as
        • under

          Benefits

          . Note that some lines have colons etc. Keep as is. We should not include Pay or Schedule. Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The Ellucian overview paragraph we included. Also maybe there is a sentence about "Where You Will Make an Impact" heading; we used that as responsibilities. Good. Check for any other paragraphs: After "What You Will Bring" there is a line "Preferred Qualifications". Already captured. After that there is "What makes #Ellucianlife". Already captured. After that there is maybe nothing else. Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning". Not present. Now output HTML fragment. We need to use

          for section headings. Use
          • for lists. Use

            for prose. We'll structure:

            Ellucian powers innovation...

            About the role

            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, helping customers adopt effective practices and realize lasting value from their technology investment. This is a consulting role for a professional who can independently lead functional conversations

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