Remote Workday Student Advisor & Curriculum Consultant

Cognizant; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Entrepreneurial environment

Opportunity to do great work

Outreach programs

Learning opportunities

Global operations

Affinity groups

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Workday Student consultant to help Australian and New Zealand universities transform curriculum management and student advising. You’ll lead design, configuration, and testing across advising models, course catalogue, and progression rules, tailoring Workday Student to local policies.

You will work with academic leaders, registrars and advisors, applying your higher education experience to real-world system design and delivery while supporting end-to-end deployment

Qualifications

• Experience in academic administration, curriculum management, registrar services or student advising in an Australian or New Zealand university.
• Understanding of academic programs, courses and degree requirements.
• Familiarity with regulatory context for curriculum and student progression in AU/NZ (HES Framework, AQF, ESOS, CUAP, Pastoral Care Code).
• Proven experience guiding stakeholders through key policy decisions and trade-offs.
• Experience implementing or supporting student information systems (SIS).
• Ability to translate policy into structured system design.
• Experience facilitating workshops and documenting decisions.
• Experience with testing, data validation, training or deployment readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and design sessions for academic advising, planning, curriculum management.
• Configure course catalogue, offerings and prerequisite rules; support integration with the institution’s curriculum system.
• Design advising models: assignments, caseloads, cohorts, notes and communications.
• Configure academic requirements, student planning and progress monitoring.
• Collaborate with Student Records to align curriculum, enrolment and progression outcomes.
• Document requirements, decisions and configuration.
• Apply higher education experience to shape future-state processes.
• Design discussions with AU/NZ universities to reflect local policy settings.
• Identify data, security, reporting and integration needs for advising and curriculum.
• Prepare and execute unit testing; support end to end testing and defects.

Skills

Workday Student

Higher education domain

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Testing & data validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Workday

SIS

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Workday Student consultant to help Australian and New Zealand universities transform curriculum management and student advising. You’ll lead design, configuration, and testing across advising models, course catalogue, and progression rules, tailoring Workday Student to local policies.

You will work with academic leaders, registrars and advisors, applying your higher education experience to real-world system design and delivery while supporting end-to-end deployment