Salesforce Education Cloud Consultant
PA Consulting
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
- 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
- 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