Principal Grants Management Implementation Consultant, Higher Education

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We’re looking for an experienced Grants Management Consultant to support Higher Education implementations. In this role, you will partner with mission-driven organizations to design, configure, and deploy Workday Grants Management solutions built for accuracy and long-term success.

You’ll bring Workday product and implementation expertise to client engagements, helping customers translate business requirements into practical solutions. You’ll work closely with clients, project teammates, and Engagement Managers to move implementations forward with clarity, quality, and strong partnership. You’ll have meaningful ownership over the Grants workstream, with the autonomy to recommend design approaches that set customers up for long-term success.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, building trust with stakeholders, and helping customers navigate key implementation milestones with confidence. You’ll both learn from experienced teammates and contribute your own ideas and patterns to help evolve how we implement Workday Grants Management in Higher Education.

• →Design and configure Workday Grants Management solutions
  • →Apply deep expertise in the Workday Grants Management product across customer engagements
  • →Partner with customers to elicit, clarify, and document business requirements
  • →Configure Workday Grants Management to align with customer needs and operational realities
  • →Document solution decisions clearly so customers can support and sustain their environment after go-live

• →Support data conversion, integrations, and testing
  • →Partner with client and data conversion teams to support legacy grants/financial data conversion into Workday
  • →Partner with integration teams to support the configuration and testing of integrations between Workday and third-party or custom solutions, as applicable.
  • →Support customers through testing cycles, including issue triage and resolution
  • →Transfer system knowledge to customer teams to support adoption, confidence, and long-term success in production

• →Drive project execution and stakeholder alignment
  • →Communicate regularly with the Engagement Manager on project status, hours forecasting, time reporting, risks, and mitigation plans
  • →Help customers prepare for and navigate key implementation milestones, from design through testing and deployment

• →Contribute to the practice and mentor others
  • →Mentor consultants who are newer to Grants Management
  • →Participate in updating training and knowledge-sharing opportunities that strengthen team capability
  • →Contribute to the Higher Education consulting practice by identifying opportunities for improvement and leading or participating in internal initiatives

You bring strong Workday Grants Management expertise, sound judgment, and a collaborative approach to delivery. You know how to balance customer needs, project realities, and solution quality. You communicate clearly, build trust quickly, and work well across teams and workstreams.

We’re open to hiring at the Senior Consultant or Principal Consultant level depending on your experience, scope of expertise, and track record of leading complex client engagements.

• 4+ years of Grants or Financial consulting experience OR 4+ years of Grants operational experience in Higher Education institutions
• Experience with Workday, Lawson, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or similar applications
• Experience with Grants Management solutions along with one or more of the following: Accounts Receivable, Projects, Endowments, Fund or Nonprofit Accounting

• 6+ years of Grants and Financial consulting experience OR 6+ years of Grants operational experience in Higher Education institutions.
• 6+ years of experience in a consulting, software, or internal Workday environment with hands-on responsibility for payroll configuration, testing, and partnering with stakeholders
• Experience with Workday Grants (6+ years)

• Experience working with Higher Education and/or Nonprofit organizations
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience - preferably in Finance or Accounting
• At least 2 full-cycle software implementations in the Higher Education industry
• Understand the reporting and compliance requirement for government funded grants
• Working knowledge of research or clinical trial solutions
• Relationship Management: Proven ability to build trusted, long-term relationships with payroll, HR, and/or finance stakeholders in Higher Education and/or Nonprofit environments, including navigating complex governance structures (e.g., committees, unions, shared governance)
• Task Management: Ability to manage multiple customers in parallel, estimate effort accurately, surface risks early, and coordinate with Engagement Managers and project teams to keep scope, schedule, and quality on track
• Ability to travel up to 50% based on client and project needs, particularly for key implementation milestones such as design sessions and major testing events

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We’re especially interested in people who bring strong judgment, learning agility, and a collaborative approach to solving complex customer problems.

Applications are accepted for this position on an ongoing basis through 11/30/26.

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

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