Project Manager, Talent Projects

Compensation Type: SalariedCompensation: $68,227.00

The Project Manager, Talent Projects serves as the functional program manager, providing day-to-day leadership for regional strategic priorities and projects aligned to technician-level training. The Project Manager engages with stakeholders both internally and within the servicing area. In a highly dynamic environment, this position oversees significant coordination required between community-based workforce partners, faculty and academic programs, student services, and other departments, as identified.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Project Management & Leadership

• Manages projects with specific deliverables focused on addressing the demand for new and diverse instructors and expansion of established programmatic best practices that support strategic priorities for the regional technician workforce.
• Ensures projects are within budget and at a standard of quality throughout the project lifecycle that positively reflects the college.
• Actively participates as part of the project team to assess deliverables and complete project activities and tasks, as needed.
• Serves as liaison to college partners, educational partners, and industry experts. Identifies and organizes project teams around activities in collaboration with the internal and external partners, as identified.
• Schedules and manages project team meetings, and assigns activities to project team members.
• Establishes agreement with team members on due dates, cost, and quality expectations.
• Monitors team member performance and activity completion.
• Develops charter and work plan in consultation with project teams.

Building Partnerships

• Co-leads in creating and fostering relationships with educational and industry partners.
• Engages partners directly to promote programs and practices and ensure project needs are aligned and expectations are being met.
• Identifies best practices from peer institutions, industry partners, and communities of interest that support the overall project scope and quality.
• Identifies project issues that require resolution and creates an issue list.
• Escalates issues for resolution when appropriate.

Fiscal & Administrative

• Supports the completion of associated reports and creates project management documentation that follows project management lifecycles.
• Works with internal stakeholders to ensure all requirements are abided by.
• Works with the project team to refine project quality metrics and expected outcomes (i.e. required completion dates, budget limits, and quality standards).
• Analyzes and controls project expenses throughout the life of projects. Inspects deliverables to confirm they meet the requirements.
• Presents deliverables to customers and identifies deficiencies.
• Amends project planning documents (schedule, budget, etc.) to allow for correction.
• Confirms or creates change management processes.

Culture of Respect

• Fosters and maintains a safe environment of respect and inclusion for faculty, staff, students, and members of the community. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• Three (3) years' experience managing high-level projects.

Additional Information

• State Motor Vehicle Operator's License or demonstrable ability to gain access to work site(s).
• An appropriate combination of education, training, coursework, and experience may qualify a candidate.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Normal office working conditions. Regular exposure to moderate noise typical to business offices.

CSCC has the right to revise this position description at any time. This position description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.

Full time

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