(1099 Contract) Nonprofit Salesforce Consultant: Business Analyst
Company: Idealist Consulting
Location: Chicago, IL (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-04-11
About this role
*Tenacious, pragmatic, with a keen sense of humor? You just might be an Idealist!*
At Idealist Consulting, we are innovators and problem-solvers committed to global progressive action. We help organizations grow through Salesforce implementation, marketing automation, and custom application development.
As a Salesforce for Nonprofits: Business Analyst you’ll work closely with clients to provide post implementation support, system optimization, and/or ongoing administration as contracted.
This is a 1099 contract part-time position.
### How You’ll Contribute:
- Provide system administration, design, and optimization services inline with Managed Service contract engagement standards & SLA’s
- Educate, guide, and empower clients in the Idealist Way
- Balance response times and approvals across multiple assignments
- Plan activities from requirements to solution design using prescribed project management tools and delivery methodologies to ensure continuity in communication and project quality
- Escalate client or consultant capacity concerns to Client Success for resolution support
- Design and implement Salesforce solutions, to meet client needs, identify opportunities for business process and system alignment and optimization
- Facilitate client need assessment, through user story collection, grooming, and prioritization
- Favor declarative configuration with custom fields, objects, layouts, views, reports, dashboards, and automation
- Support validation and user acceptance testing
- Ensure data integrity, hygiene, and security
- Provide documentation to empower client understanding and ownership of their system
- Facilitate the selection and implement third-party solutions and applications as needed
- Translate client business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the platforms, products, and applications
- Lead data mapping efforts during solution design and implementation phases, ensuring ...