Workday Student Advising and Curriculum Management Consultant

Help universities in Australia and New Zealand design and implement student system solutions for curriculum management, academic planning, and advising. You’ll work with institutional leaders and delivery teams to translate academic policies and operating needs into practical system configurations that support students throughout their studies.

• Lead discovery and design workshops covering curriculum, advising, academic planning, and related student processes.
• Configure course catalogues, offerings, prerequisites, advising models, academic requirements, and student progress monitoring.
• Align curriculum, enrolment, progression, and completion processes with student records and institutional policies.
• Identify data, security, reporting, and integration needs, and document requirements, configuration decisions, and designs.
• Prepare and run unit tests, support end-to-end testing and defect resolution, and assist with data validation, cutover, training, and go-live readiness.
• Advise stakeholders on system practices while accounting for local academic structures, regulations, and institutional context.

• Experience in an Australian or New Zealand university in academic administration, curriculum management, registrar services, advising, student success, or a related function.
• Understanding of academic programs, courses, curriculum approvals, progression, degree requirements, and advising practices.
• Familiarity with relevant local regulatory and policy contexts, such as Australian higher education and student support requirements or New Zealand programme approval and pastoral care requirements.
• Experience guiding stakeholders through operational or policy decisions, explaining options and trade-offs, and securing agreement.
• Experience implementing, supporting, or acting as a super-user for a student information system.
• Ability to translate academic policy and operational needs into structured system designs.

• Experience facilitating workshops, documenting decisions, testing, validating data, training users, or preparing for deployment.