Education Software Scoping Consultant

IRIS; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

IRIS Education is looking for a Solutions Consultant to join IRIS Education's Professional Services team in the UK. You’ll translate customer objectives into clear scope and deliverables, shaping how software implementations are scoped and handed over to delivery teams.

You’ll work across sales, pre-sales and delivery, asking focused discovery questions and drafting Statements of Work that set out responsibilities, milestones and exclusions. Candidates with education tech experience are welcome.

Qualifications

• Experience gathering and challenging business requirements, then translating them into clear scope and deliverables.
• Experience writing Statements of Work, proposals, scoping documents or comparable contractual documentation.
• Clear, precise writing and a careful eye for assumptions, dependencies and exclusions.
• Commercial awareness of how scope, effort and risk affect cost, timescales and deliverability.
• Experience within, or alongside, software sales and implementation or consulting delivery teams.
• Confidence working with customers and senior stakeholders, including when expectations need to be reset.

Responsibilities

• Get involved when customers buy new software or expand their use of IRIS Education products.
• Ask the questions that matter: challenge unclear requirements and identify gaps, risks and dependencies with Sales and Pre-Sales.
• Explore customers' objectives, operations, data and constraints through focused discovery conversations.
• Create clear Statements of Work covering deliverables, milestones, assumptions, responsibilities and exclusions.
• Balance ambition with practicality, clarifying effort, sequencing and risk before scope is finalised.
• Give project teams a well-structured handover, so they can start delivery without repeating discovery.
• Develop knowledge across our education software portfolio and help build reusable scoping templates and guidance.

Skills

Requirements gathering

SOW writing

Stakeholder engagement

Business awareness

Software sales experience

Project delivery collaboration

Job description

IRIS Education is looking for a Solutions Consultant to join IRIS Education's Professional Services team in the UK. You’ll translate customer objectives into clear scope and deliverables, shaping how software implementations are scoped and handed over to delivery teams.

You’ll work across sales, pre-sales and delivery, asking focused discovery questions and drafting Statements of Work that set out responsibilities, milestones and exclusions. Candidates with education tech experience are welcome.