Stellic Implementation Business Lead

Stellic Implementation Business Lead

Location: Remote, any where in US but need to work EST hours

Contract length: 12 months

Pay: 55-60/hr

Top 3 technical or soft skills:

• Ideally, we're looking for someone who has direct experience with the Stellic product or, at minimum, is familiar with leading degree audit or academic advising technology implementations within higher education institutions.
• The role is primarily focused on the business and functional side of implementation, rather than the technical side. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working with stakeholders, understanding business requirements, and translating institutional needs into effective system solutions.

Overview

Northeastern University is entering Phase 2 of its Stellic implementation -- a unified student-centered platform for degree audit, academic planning, advising, and registration. This role will serve as the business lead connecting a decentralized set of colleges, the Registrar's Office, and advising units with the technical implementation team, ensuring decisions reflect real stakeholder needs as new colleges onboard and new functionality goes live.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as primary business liaison between the IT project team and functional stakeholders across college advising office, the Registrar, and other key stakeholders

• Assess business impact of technical decisions and translate stakeholder needs into implementation requirements

• Lead onboarding of new colleges into Stellic -- stakeholder engagement, training coordination, change management

• Partner with business and technical teams to define rollout planning for registration functionality and other new features while incorporating resource dependencies, sequencing, risk identification, as well as change management & documentation needs

• Advocate for Registrar's Office resourcing needs and collaborate with the IT PMO to ensure project timelines are realistic given available staff and system resources

• Design and run post-launch feedback loops; translate user feedback into prioritized improvement requests

• Maintain stakeholder communications through the facilitation and participation in governance groups (e.g., Stellic Student Support Advisory Group, Stellic Steering Committee) and by identifying other communication paths

• Identify and escalate cross-office conflicts or competing priorities for resolution

• Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in higher education administration or academic technology, with hands-on implementation experience in degree audit and/or academic advising & planning technologies

• Demonstrated experience translating between technical teams and academic/administrative stakeholders

• Familiarity with registration, degree audit, or advising operations in a higher ed setting

• Strong stakeholder management and written communication skills

• Experience with change management in a decentralized organizational structure

• Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with Stellic implementations

• Experience implementing change within a highly decentralized university or institution

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