Barnard College

Manage department assistants and student workers while overseeing budget and financial management. Collaborate with chairs for curricular planning and departmental assessments, ensuring effective operations within the academic departments.

If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Workday Analyst, People Systems This position is a highly skilled, process-oriented Workday People System Analyst reporting directly to the Senior Associate Director, Workday People Systems & Service Delivery. This individual contributor role focuses on the technical execution and daily support of our HR systems. The ideal candidate is a systems-level thinker who executes processes with strong attention to detail in a fast-paced environment. As an integral part of the team, you will support the day-to-day operations of Workday modules, including HCM, Talent, People Experience, Total Rewards, and cross-functional Payroll-related activities. This job is primarily performed remotely and is part of a remote team. Job Description: DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - System Administration & Configuration: Administer the College’s Workday HCM platform by executing system configuration and Business Process (BP) administration. Ensure smooth daily operations and continuous data integrity across the entire Workday HCM and cross-functional aspects of Payroll. - Troubleshooting & Support: Serve as the primary point of contact for identifying and troubleshooting Human Resource staff members' questions or issues related to transactional workflows. Escalate complex troubleshooting issues to the Senior Associate Director for coordination with a cross-functional group of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). - Upgrades & Innovation: Conduct system updates and support the review and testing of HCM and Total Rewards upgrades and feature releases. Assist in exploring and testing emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning features. - Data & Integrations: Support the testing and deployment of system integrations to ensure data flows correctly between platforms. Execute tasks through EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder) uploads, while upholding established data governance standards for privacy compliance and accuracy. - Reporting & Analytics: Provide data analysis and reporting on HR-related metrics to inform decision-making. Support user questions and fulfill requests for functional reports. - Process Improvement: Partner with HR, IT, and other departments to identify continued opportunities to streamline business processes. Assist with testing, implementation, rollout, and knowledge transfer for system enhancements and new initiatives. - Compliance & Security: Consistently maintain and safeguard confidential information, exercising discretion to ensure HRIS compliance with institutional policies, federal regulations, and data privacy standards. - Training: Maintain Workday Pro certification in areas of HCM, Time and Absence, Performance Management, and Reporting. - Community: Represent the College in peer groups, user conferences, and other events to maintain a network of informal resources. Skills, Qualifications & Requirements: KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES - Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement. - Advanced analytical and problem-solving abilities with attention to detail. - Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing business needs. - Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, pivot tables, formulas) for supplemental reporting. QUALIFICATIONS - Education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience. - Experience: Proven 3+ years (post go-live) experience in Workday HCM systems analysis, daily operations, and technical support. - Technical Knowledge: Comprehensive knowledge of business and technical requirements analysis as it relates to human resource systems integration, HRIS data configuration, workflow management, and business processes. - System Proficiency: Strong hands-on experience with Workday ERP. Working knowledge of payroll systems such as Workday, OSV, and Accu-time is highly preferred. - Software Skills: Proficient in office productivity software (Office, G.Suite, etc.). - Attributes: Strong systems-level thinking, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to interact positively and appropriately with a wide variety of users PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Workday Pro certification(s) preferred, or willingness to attain certification. WORK CONDITIONS: - This position is a full-time remote position, with the possibility of occasional requirements to come onsite for planning or strategic meetings. - Requires the ability to perform customary office tasks such as sitting, walking, standing, computing, and participation in video meetings for moderate to prolonged periods of time. |SALARY RANGE: $80,000 - $85,000 annually The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the College's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting. Company: Barnard College Time Type: Full time

Title: Change Management Specialist Location: New York City, NY Job Description: Full time job requisition id JR5526 If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Change Management Specialist The Change Management Specialist will be a driving force in advancing organizational change initiatives across Barnard College, with a focus on systems, processes, and people. This role is ideal for a proactive, resourceful professional who thrives in a dynamic, highly collaborative, and politically nuanced environment. Success requires more than technical expertise—it calls for resilience, cultural intelligence, and the ability to listen, learn, and tailor strategies to the unique character of the Barnard community. The Specialist will design and execute change management strategies, lead stakeholder engagement, and deliver training and communication plans that help staff and faculty embrace new systems, processes, and ways of working. This individual will act as a connector across departments, translating complex change into clear, practical actions and ensuring initiatives land successfully. Job Description: Duties & Responsibilities: - Develop and execute tailored comprehensive change management strategies to support adoption of new systems and processes across the College, with sensitivity to community dynamics. - Lead communications planning for major initiatives, including creating messaging, FAQs, guides, presentations, and digital content with diverse audiences. - Partner with Barnard College departments including, for example, Finance, BCIT, Communications, Inclusion & Belonging, and academic departments on project rollouts such as Workday Student, ensuring smooth transitions and broad stakeholder readiness. - Design, deliver, and assess training and facilitation programs (live and digital) that prepare staff and faculty to succeed with new systems and processes. - Collaborate with the rest of the People Experience team to develop and host training resources in the College’s learning management system (LMS), BCLearn, for scalable, ongoing learning. - Build and sustain a change champion network to encourage adoption, collect real-time feedback, and foster engagement across departments. - Conduct stakeholder assessments, readiness checks, and feedback sessions to identify readiness and critical gaps, address concerns, and guide continuous improvement. - Partner with leaders to develop clear operational communications and contingency plans for system and process changes across the College. - Leverage technology to deliver effective communications, training, and adopting tracking. - Serve as a bridge builder and connector across project teams, ensuring alignment between technology, operations, and people experience goals. - Perform other duties as assigned. Skills, Qualifications & Requirements: Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: - Demonstrated ability to thrive in complex, nuanced, and evolving environments; resilient and solutions-oriented. - Strong expertise in change management methodologies (communications, stakeholder engagement, readiness, adoption). - Proven ability to design and deliver training, both in-person and virtually, with strong facilitation skills. - Experience developing and maintaining training resources in an LMS. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to simplify complex topics for diverse audiences. - Demonstrated skills in influence and curiosity. - Strong collaboration skills and ability to work in a matrixed environment across multiple functions. - Highly organized, able to manage multiple projects and competing deadlines. - Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities. - Technically adept, with experience supporting change in Workday or other enterprise systems a plus. - Organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines. Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree - Minimum 5 years’ experience in change management, organizational development, or a related field - Demonstrated experience in system-related change initiatives, including training and communications components - Proficiency with productivity and collaboration tools (e.g., G Suite, MS Office, project management software) Preferred Qualifications: - Experience supporting Workday projects, particularly in higher education - Change management certification (e.g., Prosci, ACMP) - Experience in designing and delivering training programs, both live and through LMS platforms - Prior experience in higher education or complex organizational environments This job is currently a hybrid position, but may require a presence in the office up to five times a week depending on operational needs. Salary Range: $115,000 - $120,000 annually The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the College's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting. Company: Barnard College Time Type: Full time

If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Workday Optimization Manager (Technical Lead) As the Workday Optimization Manager, you play a critical, hands-on role in supporting the technical design, configuration, and continuous improvement of our enterprise-wide Workday platform. This position combines deep, expert-level technical proficiency in Workday with a strategic approach to cross-functional business process redesign. Unlike traditional program management roles, this is fundamentally a technical builder’s position. You will serve as the primary driver of Workday optimization by transforming complex business requirements into impactful solutions. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker and a Workday configuration expert who thrives at the intersection of technology, process, and people. You will work collaboratively with departments across the organization to proactively identify efficiency opportunities and independently configure the system to meet those needs. Job Description: Expert-Level Configuration & Technical Design: - Serve as the primary hands-on technical expert for Workday configuration, testing, and functionality deployment across the platform (HCM, Finance, Payroll, etc.). - Develop, test, and maintain complex Workday reports, dashboards, and advanced business processes. - Analyze Workday help desk trends and ticket data to identify recurring issues, troubleshooting, and directly remediating problems through system configuration. Community Engagement: - Serve as a bridge between technical solutions and community adoption — building trust, addressing concerns, and providing training. - Communicate complex technical changes in accessible and empathetic ways. - Help develop a culture of continuous improvement. Platform Optimization & Business Process Engineering: - Direct the tenant strategy and stay continuously updated on Workday’s product roadmap and bi-annual releases. - Translate new features and Workday community best practices into actionable system enhancements, and configure and test them in sandbox environments before deployment. - Monitor overall system performance, data integrity, and cross-functional impacts to ensure updates are leveraged to their full potential without duplicating effort. - Proactively engage with functional leaders and subject matter experts to understand workflows, pain points, and business practices. - Apply methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean, Agile) to rethink and redesign business processes, subsequently building those optimized workflows directly within Workday. - Simplify complex technical changes for non-technical users and champion documenting new workflows to ensure sustainable adoption. Keeping yourself up to date: - Training: Maintain Workday Pro certifications in areas of Functional Core Area, Integration Administration, Security, and Reporting. - Community: Represent the College in peer groups, user conferences, and other events to maintain a network of informal resources. - Partnership: Maintain productive working relationships with functional areas, serve as a liaison as needed between functional areas, and end-user support themes. - Other duties & responsibilities as assigned. Skills, Qualifications & Requirements: Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: - Expert knowledge one or more of the following: Workday Recruiting, Time & Absence, Benefits, and Payroll, Finance, or Student. - Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing and new emerging technologies to support the evolving HR, Finance, and Payroll functions. - Highly organized and capable of prioritizing tasks under tight deadlines - Ability to present and guide conversations regarding technical features to non-technical staff. - Eagerness to explore new technology and processes. - Communication and Collaboration: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Collaborative in nature across diverse teams and comfortable guiding a mission-driven community through system changes, even when that community might be resistant or have varying levels of "change readiness." - Ability to communicate business needs to technical people and to communicate and simplify complex technical information for non-technical users Qualifications: - Education: Bachelor's degree in a related field (Information Technology, Human Resources, Finance, Business Administration, etc.). - Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Workday system analysis, design, development, and support, with a strong preference for enterprise-wide platform exposure. - Technical Expertise: 5+ years of deep, hands-on Workday configuration experience. (Must be able to pass a technical configuration assessment). - Process Improvement: Demonstrated ability to lead process improvement projects, ideally backed by certification or strong experience in Six Sigma, Lean, or Agile methodologies. - Communication: Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to seamlessly translate between strategic business needs and highly technical system configurations. Preferred Qualifications: - Workday Pro Certification in one or more core modules. Work Conditions: - This position is a full-time remote position, with the possibility of occasional requirements to come onsite for planning or strategic meetings. - Requires the ability to perform customary office tasks such as sitting, walking, standing, computing, and participation in video meetings for moderate to prolonged periods of time. | Salary Range: $120,000 - $130,000 annually The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the College's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting. Company: Barnard College Time Type: Full time

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description As the Workday Optimization Manager, you play a critical, hands-on role in supporting the technical design, configuration, and continuous improvement of our enterprise-wide Workday platform. This position combines deep, expert-level technical proficiency in Workday with a strategic approach to cross-functional business process redesign. - Serve as the primary hands-on technical expert for Workday configuration, testing, and functionality deployment across the platform (HCM, Finance, Payroll, etc.). - Develop, test, and maintain complex Workday reports, dashboards, and advanced business processes. - Analyze Workday help desk trends and ticket data to identify recurring issues, troubleshooting, and directly remediating problems through system configuration. - Serve as a bridge between technical solutions and community adoption — building trust, addressing concerns, and providing training. - Communicate complex technical changes in accessible and empathetic ways. - Help develop a culture of continuous improvement. - Direct the tenant strategy and stay continuously updated on Workday’s product roadmap and bi-annual releases. - Translate new features and Workday community best practices into actionable system enhancements, and configure and test them in sandbox environments before deployment. - Monitor overall system performance, data integrity, and cross-functional impacts to ensure updates are leveraged to their full potential without duplicating effort. - Proactively engage with functional leaders and subject matter experts to understand workflows, pain points, and business practices. - Apply methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean, Agile) to rethink and redesign business processes, subsequently building those optimized workflows directly within Workday. - Simplify complex technical changes for non-technical users and champion documenting new workflows to ensure sustainable adoption. - Maintain Workday Pro certifications in areas of Functional Core Area, Integration Administration, Security, and Reporting. - Represent the College in peer groups, user conferences, and other events to maintain a network of informal resources. - Maintain productive working relationships with functional areas, serve as a liaison as needed between functional areas, and end-user support themes. - Other duties & responsibilities as assigned. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in a related field (Information Technology, Human Resources, Finance, Business Administration, etc.). - Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Workday system analysis, design, development, and support, with a strong preference for enterprise-wide platform exposure. - 5+ years of deep, hands-on Workday configuration experience. (Must be able to pass a technical configuration assessment). - Demonstrated ability to lead process improvement projects, ideally backed by certification or strong experience in Six Sigma, Lean, or Agile methodologies. - Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to seamlessly translate between strategic business needs and highly technical system configurations. Requirements - Expert knowledge one or more of the following: Workday Recruiting, Time & Absence, Benefits, Payroll, Finance, or Student. - Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing and new emerging technologies to support the evolving HR, Finance, and Payroll functions. - Highly organized and capable of prioritizing tasks under tight deadlines. - Ability to present and guide conversations regarding technical features to non-technical staff. - Eagerness to explore new technology and processes. - Collaborative in nature across diverse teams and comfortable guiding a mission-driven community through system changes, even when that community might be resistant or have varying levels of "change readiness." - Ability to communicate business needs to technical people and to communicate and simplify complex technical information for non-technical users. Benefits - This position is a full-time remote position, with the possibility of occasional requirements to come onsite for planning or strategic meetings. - Requires the ability to perform customary office tasks such as sitting, walking, standing, computing, and participation in video meetings for moderate to prolonged periods of time. Company Description Barnard College is dedicated to empowering women through education and leadership opportunities.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description As the College’s Workday expert-in-residence for security administration, you make sure that the College gets the most value from its use of the Workday platform: - Lead security work during version upgrades and feature rollouts - Coordinate daily issue resolution - Apply configuration changes - Ensure data integrity and security compliance - Serve as a point of contact for security-related inquiries from users across the College This job is performed remotely. Due to the sensitive nature of this role, a private, distraction-free work environment is required. Duties & Responsibilities / What you’ll own - User Access Management: Manage user roles and permissions to ensure appropriate access to Workday features based on job responsibilities. - Regular Security Audits: Conduct audits of user access and security configurations to identify discrepancies or vulnerabilities. - Configuration Updates: Stay current on Workday updates and implement new security features. - Data Integrity: Validate security settings and conduct checks for data integrity. - Training and Support: Provide training for end-users and departmental stakeholders on security protocols and best practices. - Platform Configuration: Perform system setup and user security provisioning; advise on security impacts of changes. - Project Management: Adhere to departmental methodology for change control and process documentation. - Adapting to Regulatory Changes: Stay informed about changes in data privacy laws and regulations. - Strategy: Assist in establishing the College's Workday security strategy. - Leadership: Provide direction to team members and develop internal security controls and processes. - Prioritization: Provide input to prioritize the College’s Workday initiatives. - Liaison with IT: Develop awareness of Workday security capabilities and contribute to IT architecture discussions. - Liaison with Data Management: Assist in understanding the Workday security model. - Feedback Loop with Stakeholders: Gather feedback from users and departmental leaders about security concerns. - Vendors: Manage consultant engagements for larger Workday initiatives. - Training: Maintain Workday Pro certification in Security and Reporting. - Community: Represent the College in peer groups and user conferences. - Other duties & responsibilities as assigned. Qualifications - 3-5 years of related experience and expert knowledge of Workday security framework - Eagerness to explore new technology and processes - Excellent verbal & written communication skills - Ability to interact positively and appropriately with a wide variety of users - Ability to communicate business needs to technical people and simplify complex technical information for non-technical users Requirements - Workday Security, Finance, and/or HCM experience is required; Workday Student experience is preferred - Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience - Proficient office productivity software skills (Office, G.Suite, etc.) Preferred Qualifications - Workday Pro certification(s) preferred, or must be willing to attain certification Salary Range $87,000 - $97,000 annually To be eligible, applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. Company Description Barnard College Time Type: Full time