IT & Software

Salesforce Education Cloud Consultant

PA Consulting

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As a Salesforce Education Cloud Consultant, you will shape a growing Higher Education practice by delivering Education Cloud solutions for universities. You will combine Salesforce expertise with consulting know-how to help institutions recruit, enroll and engage students while driving digital transformation. You’ll work with cross-functional teams on multi-phase programmes and contribute to reusable assets and narratives that strengthen client outcomes. The role offers a collaborative, learning-focused environment with opportunities to grow your technical and leadership capabilities.

Pay / Benefits
  • private healthcare for you and family
  • 25 days annual leave
  • bonus opportunity
  • generous pension scheme
  • PA share ownership
  • cycle to work / tax efficient benefits
Responsibilities
  • Lead requirements gathering, workshops, and stakeholder engagement for Higher Education transformation programmes
  • Design and deliver Education Cloud solutions supporting recruitment, admissions, enrolment, student success, wellbeing and alumni engagement
  • Challenge client processes, identify improvements, and define future-state operating models
  • Configure and implement Salesforce solutions with architects and delivery teams
  • Support programmes leveraging Experience Cloud, Service Cloud and other Salesforce capabilities
  • Facilitate integration with Student Records, LMS, identity management, and enterprise apps
  • Assist data migration, data quality, and governance for sustained value
  • Build trusted client relationships and provide expert Salesforce guidance and platform strategy
  • Contribute to bids, demonstrations, and client presentations; grow the Salesforce Higher Education practice
  • Develop reusable assets and deliver accelerators; mentor junior team members
Key requirements
  • Salesforce Certified Education Cloud Consultant
  • Salesforce Administrator certification
  • Experience delivering Salesforce implementations in a consultant, business analyst, or functional capacity
  • Strong hands-on Experience with Salesforce Education Cloud
  • Experience with Higher Education institutions or education-focused transformations
  • Understanding of the student lifecycle (recruitment, admissions, enrolment, retention, student support, alumni engagement)
  • Facilitation of workshops and translating business needs into Salesforce solutions
  • Experience with stakeholders at multiple organisational levels
  • Experience supporting data migration, integration, and change adoption
  • Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD with tools like Git, Azure DevOps, Copado or Gearset
  • Strong communication, stakeholder management and consulting skills
  • Outcome-focused, pragmatic problem-solver
  • strong communication
  • stakeholder management
  • collaborative
  • Salesforce Education Cloud
  • Experience Cloud
  • Service Cloud

Reference: WJ-747_30221584

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