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We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.
About the Team
The Higher Ed/Nonprofit Functional Consulting team partners with colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations to design and deliver Workday Payroll, Absence, & Time Tracking solutions that help them pay their people accurately and on time, so they can stay focused on their missions. We lead implementations end-to-end, balancing scope, milestones, and quality across a steady pipeline of projects.Many of us previously worked in higher education or nonprofit organizations, and we understand the realities of shared governance, academic calendars, and public or public-adjacent organizations. We also value creating sustainable ways of working that fit those environments. Our team is highly educated, curious, and always looking for ways to improve how we work. We actively utilize Workday’s AI tools to make our implementations high-quality and efficient, and we share what we learn so the entire practice benefits.
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence Consultant to support higher education and nonprofit implementations. In this role, you will partner with mission-driven organizations to design, configure, and deploy Workday 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 the Engagement Manager to move implementations forward with clarity, quality, and strong partnership. You’ll have meaningful ownership over the Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence workstreams, 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 in higher education and nonprofit organizations.
Key Responsibilities
You will:
- Design and configure Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence solutions
- Apply deep expertise in the product across customer engagements
- Partner with customers to elicit, clarify, and document business requirements
- Configure Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence to align with customer needs and operational realities Document solution decisions clearly so customers can support and sustain their environment after go-live
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- Support data conversion, integrations, and testing
- Partner with client and data conversion teams to support legacy Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence data conversion into Workday
- Partner with integration teams to support the configuration and testing of integrations between Workday and third-party or custom solutions
- 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
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- Drive project execution and stakeholder alignment
- Communicate regularly with the Engagement Manager on project status, hours forecasting, time reporting, risks, and mitigation plans
- Partner with Delivery Assurance to support compliance with agreed checkpoints and quality standards Help customers prepare for and navigate key implementation milestones, from design through testing and deployment
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- Contribute to the practice and mentor others
- Mentor consultants who are newer to Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence
- Participate in update training and knowledge-sharing opportunities that strengthen team capability
- Contribute to the Higher Education/Nonprofit consulting practice by identifying opportunities for improvement and leading or participating in internal initiatives
About You
You bring strong Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence 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 or Principal level depending on your experience, scope of expertise, and track record of leading complex client engagements.
Basic Qualifications: Senior Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence Consultant (P4)
- 4+ years of experience implementing and/or configuring Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence 4+ years of experience in a consulting, software, or internal Workday environment with hands-on responsibility for Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence configuration, testing, and partnering with stakeholders
Basic Qualifications: Principal Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence Consultant (P5)
- 6+ years of experience implementing and/or configuring Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence 6+ years of experience in a consulting, software, or internal Workday environment leading complex Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence initiatives that require cross-workstream coordination, stakeholder alignment, and structured testing
Other Qualifications (preferred):
- Experience working with higher education or nonprofit organizations
- Experience with multiple Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence applications
- Relationship Management: Proven ability to build trusted, long-term relationships with Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence, 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
Encouragement to Apply
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.
Posting End Date : 11/30/26
The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated.
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
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 .
Primary Location: USA.GA.AtlantaPrimary Location Base Pay Range: $140,300 USD - $210,500 USD
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $133,300 USD - $236,900 USD
Additional Considerations:
The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodations, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. Any employee who retaliates against a candidate or employee for doing so may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, to the fullest extent allowable under applicable law.
If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.com , as far in advance as possible.
Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers.
Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.
In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.
Your work days are brighter here.
We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.
About the Team
The Higher Ed/Nonprofit Functional Consulting team partners with colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations to design and deliver Workday Payroll, Absence, & Time Tracking solutions that help them pay their people accurately and on time, so they can stay focused on their missions. We lead implementations end-to-end, balancing scope, milestones, and quality across a steady pipeline of projects.Many of us previously worked in higher education or nonprofit organizations, and we understand the realities of shared governance, academic calendars, and public or public-adjacent organizations. We also value creating sustainable ways of working that fit those environments. Our team is highly educated, curious, and always looking for ways to improve how we work. We actively utilize Workday’s AI tools to make our implementations high-quality and efficient, and we share what we learn so the entire practice benefits.
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence Consultant to support higher education and nonprofit implementations. In this role, you will partner with mission-driven organizations to design, configure, and deploy Workday 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 the Engagement Manager to move implementations forward with clarity, quality, and strong partnership. You’ll have meaningful ownership over the Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence workstreams, 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 in higher education and nonprofit organizations.
Key Responsibilities
You will:
- Design and configure Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence solutions
- Apply deep expertise in the product across customer engagements
- Partner with customers to elicit, clarify, and document business requirements
- Configure Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence 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 Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence data conversion into Workday
- Partner with integration teams to support the configuration and testing of integrations between Workday and third-party or custom solutions
- 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
- Partner with Delivery Assurance to support compliance with agreed checkpoints and quality standards 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 Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence
- Participate in update training and knowledge-sharing opportunities that strengthen team capability
- Contribute to the Higher Education/Nonprofit consulting practice by identifying opportunities for improvement and leading or participating in internal initiatives
About You
You bring strong Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence 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 or Principal level depending on your experience, scope of expertise, and track record of leading complex client engagements.
Basic Qualifications: Senior Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence Consultant (P4)
- 4+ years of experience implementing and/or configuring Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence 4+ years of experience in a consulting, software, or internal Workday environment with hands-on responsibility for Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence configuration, testing, and partnering with stakeholders
Basic Qualifications: Principal Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence Consultant (P5)
- 6+ years of experience implementing and/or configuring Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence 6+ years of experience in a consulting, software, or internal Workday environment leading complex Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence initiatives that require cross-workstream coordination, stakeholder alignment, and structured testing
Other Qualifications (preferred):
- Experience working with higher education or nonprofit organizations
- Experience with multiple Payroll, Time Tracking, & Absence applications
- Relationship Management: Proven ability to build trusted, long-term relationships with Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence, 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
Encouragement to Apply
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.
Posting End Date : 11/30/26
The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated.
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
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 .
Primary Location: USA.GA.AtlantaPrimary Location Base Pay Range: $140,300 USD - $210,500 USD
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $133,300 USD - $236,900 USD
Additional Considerations:
The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodations, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. Any employee who retaliates against a candidate or employee for doing so may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, to the fullest extent allowable under applicable law.
If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.com , as far in advance as possible.
Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers.
Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.
In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.
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Who's Hiring
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in nonprofit consultant jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in nonprofit management, public administration, or a related field
- Experience conducting program evaluations or organizational assessments for nonprofit clients
- Proficiency in grant writing, fundraising strategy, or donor relations
- Familiarity with nonprofit financial management, budgeting, and compliance requirements
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills across diverse community groups
- Experience with logic model development or strategic planning frameworks
Tips for Your Nonprofit Consultant Job Search
Tailor your resume to mission outcomes
Nonprofits hire consultants to move the needle on programs, not just manage processes. Rewrite your bullets to show measurable outcomes tied to mission, like funds raised, program reach expanded, or operational costs reduced for a client organization.
Highlight your sector-specific client history
Hiring managers in this space want to see which types of nonprofits you've served. Name the subsectors explicitly, whether education equity, environmental advocacy, or workforce development, so decision-makers can immediately see relevant experience without reading between the lines.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists nonprofit consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter by engagement model before applying
Some postings are for embedded consulting roles inside a single nonprofit, others for multi-client advisory work at a consulting firm. Knowing which model you're applying for shapes every answer you give in interviews, so clarify this in the job description before you submit.
Prepare a case study for the interview
Most nonprofit consultant interviews ask you to walk through a past engagement end to end. Have one ready that shows your diagnostic process, how you built stakeholder buy-in, and the specific change that resulted, ideally for an organization comparable in size or subsector.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Nonprofit consultant offers often carry narrower salary bands, but deliverable scope is frequently negotiable. Before accepting, clarify travel expectations, number of client engagements, and reporting requirements, since these directly affect the real value of the role.
Nonprofit Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most nonprofit consultants?
The companies hiring the most nonprofit consultants right now include Aprio, Workday, and United Way, with the largest share of openings in Illinois, Virginia, and Michigan, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand tends to concentrate at management consulting firms with dedicated social sector practices and at larger foundations that staff internal advisory teams.
How many nonprofit consultant jobs are remote?
About 50% of nonprofit consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the sector's growing comfort with distributed advisory work. Strategy and capacity-building roles tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions requiring on-site facilitation, community engagement, or fieldwork are more likely to require a physical presence.
How do you become a nonprofit consultant?
Start by building direct experience inside the sector, either working for a nonprofit or in a government or philanthropy role that intersects with it. Develop a defined specialty, such as fundraising, program design, or board governance, so you can be hired for a specific problem rather than general advisory work. Building a portfolio of completed engagements with documented outcomes is essential before you pitch to new clients or employers independently.
Can you get hired as a nonprofit consultant with little experience?
Entry-level nonprofit consultant roles do exist, particularly at consulting firms that work across the social sector and hire associates to support senior consultants. Your best path in without direct consulting experience is a combination of nonprofit staff experience, demonstrated analytical skills, and at least one project, even unpaid, where you helped an organization solve a real operational or strategic problem. Volunteer board service or pro bono consulting work can substitute for paid engagement history early in your career.
What does the nonprofit consultant interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four rounds. An initial screening call focuses on your background and sector knowledge, followed by a competency interview where you walk through past engagements using structured examples. Many firms include a case exercise or written deliverable that simulates a real consulting task, such as diagnosing an organizational challenge or drafting a recommendations memo. Final rounds typically involve meeting senior staff or clients and discussing how you'd approach the organization's specific work.
Where can I find and apply to nonprofit consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to nonprofit consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing without leaving the platform.
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