Lead Functional Consultant – Not for Profit Sector

Lead Functional Consultant – Not for Profit Sector

Learn more about the general tasks related to this opportunity below, as well as required skills.
Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits
Where the job is based: Hybrid (home-based, working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ
Who we are:
Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv Digital, we\’re not just another tech company. We’re the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients driving extreme value!
With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we\’re a proud member of the Kerv Group – a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders.
People come first always we are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our \”Great Place to Work\” certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Dive into an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry\’s most forward-thinking architects.
Non-Profit and Membership are a key sector for Kerv Digital and core to our organisational mission. A key driving principle behind Kerv Digital’s ‘Build Future’ mission statement is to ‘do well by doing good’. We continually strive to deliver meaningful social impact through the work we do and believe that this contributes to our commercial success as a business. Since its inception, Kerv Digital has been a business with a strong moral compass and clear social mission. Non-Profit and Membership organisations account for approximately 50% of our business.
Required Skills:
* Experience of the Non-profit and Membership sector essential
* In-depth knowledge of D365 Customer Engagement first-party applications and the Power Platform.
* Capable of leading a team of functional consultants, collaborating with clients to design and build Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform Solutions
* Proficiency in several of the following products: Sales, Customer Service, Customer insights, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio and Power Bi
* End to End Implementation Experience essential especially in larger/more complex projects of Multiple Dynamics 365 CE or Power Platform end to end implementation including requirements analysis, design, configuration, testing, training, data migration and integrations, cutover and reporting
* Solution Design influence to provide ability to create and influence solution designs with a configuration first approach and only using customisation where essential to implementation and maintenance risks and costs
* Supporting and guiding the team in delivering workshops, creating functional designs, configuring solutions, supporting testing, assisting with data migration and integration needs, delivering training and supporting implementation
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills to understand and playback requirements and convey solution design concepts to customers and peers.
* A strong desire to help customers realise the benefit of their investment and understand the art of the possible.
* Be an awesome team player as the conduit between the customer, business analysts, solution architects, developers and quality assurance.
* Hands-on Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement customisation and configuration
* Understand which technology to use, and why, including when to use Pro-Code vs Low Code/No Code solutions.
* Microsoft certifications, e.g. multiple MCPs or an MCSE
* Understanding the Microsoft Dynamics product portfolio and its licensing
Responsibilities:
You’ll probably need to demonstrate at least some experience with;
* Understanding the Out of the Box capabilities (and limitations) provided by Dynamics 365CE and the Power Platform, from form design to solution management to connectors to integrations.
* Demonstrate Out of the Box functionality to business and technical stakeholders illustrating how the product supports core business processes
* Requirements gathering, writing and evolution through business process identification, analysis and re-engineering
* Learn and become an expert in the in the Kerv Digital accelerators to solve common business scenarios faster. Become a design influencer into the future roadmap of the accelerators
* Crafting user stories, features and epics to be used across the presales, design, development and delivery lifecycles.
* Building Proof of Concepts to demonstrate and articulate solution designs.
* Implementing business and technical environment change safely and effectively, with the support of the Solution Architects and the Project Office
* Pre-sales engagement including technology evangelism, demonstration, adoption and other early opportunity activities such as bid-response writing
* Creating clear and effective documentation across multiple channels
* Using a proactive approach to ensure timescales are met, balancing a hands-on approach vs delegating to developers or other team members.
* Training end users and admins in the use of Dynamics 365 CE and the Power Platform
* Environment setup, configuration and Application Lifecycle Management
* Supporting, leading and coaching more junior project team members fostering a culture of wellbeing, inclusion and ensuring balanced workload levels
* Prioritise and assign tasks and make best use of available resource and skill levels in the team contributing to the project success
* Build relationships with other stakeholders in other disciplines across the project including within the client team and contribute to the successful management of dependencies between disciplines
* Other tasks as reasonably requested
Desirable Skills:
Candidates are expected to have some of the following skills;
• Lead by example through sharing from previous experiences and providing implementation plans that mitigate risks to deliver a positive outcome
• Remain calm and professional in fast paced environments and feel comfortable calling out concerns and seeking advice when needed
• Embrace personal growth to yourself and others through learning, achievement and satisfaction
• Be approachable to provide help, guidance and actively support junior colleagues helping them to uphold standards, manage their workload, ensure quality and cope with challenging situations
• Embrace a culture of knowledge sharing so that we grow
We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;
• happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed
• an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• prepared to travel to client site if required
• ability to identify and pick up new processes and software platforms quickly
• ability to work effectively with remote teams in both in the UK and India
• ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales
What we can do for you:
We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employee’s:
Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
Awesome Environment – all of our employee’s will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on – and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.
Great Benefits – all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies (we’re a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t get trained on anywhere else and private healthcare. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation.
Recognition & Growth – Recognized as a \’Great Place to Work\’ in both the UK and India, our commitment to excellence goes beyond our products and services. Our culture is a testament to the dedicated technologists who work tirelessly to drive our vision forward. Being a part of Kerv Digital means embracing a culture of innovation, collaboration, and mutual respect. Our teams in the UK and India thrive in an atmosphere that promotes continuous learning and growth.
Join us at Kerv Digital, where we don’t just build ground breaking technology – we build future.
Don’t take our word for it though, check out our impartial Glass Door reviews
More on equality:
At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together