Careers

• Have a minimum of 10 years plus experience managing and operating Blackbaud SIS Educational Edge.
• Proven experience working in a higher educational environment.
• Detailed knowledge of Blackbaud Educational Edge Business process improvement experience in higher educational establishments.
• Knowledge, familiarity/experience of Blackbaud Educational Edge interface into Blackbaud Financial Edge

Responsibilities

•  Overall responsibility for safeguarding the ongoing operation of the Blackbaud Educational Edge System
• Responsible for stabilizing the current system, ensuring the system is air gaped and able to implement workarounds to the system as functionality support is switched off
• Responsible for redesigning and implementing business process improvements in the Registrar / SIS area
• Joint responsibility with the Registrar for the overall budget, plans and deliverables
• Understand in minute detail the Registrar / SIS environment's current state and lead the business process, redesign to create a future state and create a migration plan in conjunction with a new SIS to achieve on-time successful delivery
• Ensure that the Registrar workstream design is documented and signed off by all stakeholders, particularly registration/admissions staff and the Director of Registrar
• Ensure that full and continuous communication occurs with all stakeholders
• Manage the Registrars testing environment to ensure successful transfer of data
• Ensure minimum fortnightly formal joint review meetings with the Director of Registrar and Project lead
• Work closely with all other workstreams to identify complicated multi-departmental areas and ensure efficient design, sign off and implementation of multi-departmental processes (E.g., student billing with Finance and Financial Aid with Student Life)
• Ensure sufficient Registrar’s training and documentation to ensure the Registrars department has resilience in maintaining operations after the migration is complete
• Manage the Registrars training program to ensure all registration/admissions personnel are suitably trained in the new product.
• Assess in detail after discussing with all stakeholders and make recommendations of cost-benefit analysis of system rationalizations
• Responsible for ensuring the creation and ongoing integration / smooth operation of all Registrar interfaces into and out of the SIS system, including defining and documenting what data flows and when
• Manage grandfathering of current Blackbaud / other system operations to ensure all necessary arrangements are in place to ensure continuity of operation of ceased support Blackbaud until the migration
• Ensure all historical Registrars data on Blackbaud / other systems is considered and arrangements made for necessary data storage/transfer
• Take the current basic alumni workarounds and build out full Alumni functionality using the new SIS
• Become a new SIS champion / functional expert and leverage our investment by exploring all opportunities for transitioning off-system solutions into the core new system

Compensation

• KYD $89,000 - $120,000.00  per annum. 
• Medical, pension and annual leave (5 weeks)

How to apply

Please include a cover letter and CV to hr@ucci.edu.ky with a list of existing courses the candidate can teach, develop and propose new courses along with three (3) professional references.

Deadline: September 29th 2022

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted