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Southern New Hampshire University · 4 hours ago

Academic Program Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$69K/yr - $110K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead and motivate the team to ensure project goals align with our university goals.

Establish relationships with all project personnel, including partners, sponsors, and executives. Be a trusted advisor for us.

Analyze communication needs and determine communication channels, frequency, and level of detail for all audiences. Ensure quality, accuracy, and integrity of project information and that feedback is received/acted upon.

Ensure the relevant business, operational, technical, and financial ramifications of the project are well understood and communicated. Engage appropriate SMEs, partners, and sponsors to maximize value, minimize risks, and costs, and achieve expected benefits realization and successful organizational change following established success metrics.

Use the most appropriate project management practices to improve delivery, ensuring that team members are enabled to use the chosen approach, methods, tools, and techniques.

Establish work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations, or phases. Assign responsibilities, and scope of authority to project personnel. Function as coach to other program managers, partners, and team members who need assistance regarding project management practices.

Identity, scope, and schedule project deliverables, resources, milestones, and required activities and tasks. With a comprehensive approach, monitor all project activities, communicate and remedy trouble spots, examine the value, and benchmark performance to identify improvements and achieve higher capability. Evaluate and deliver project benefits and value; support organizational change.

Qualification

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Master's degreePMP certificationAgile certificationProject management methodologiesMS ProjectAzure DevOpsJIRASoftware Development Life CycleOrganizational Change ManagementMicrosoft TeamsSharePointExcelVisioPower BISmartsheetConcept DrawWorkfrontITILITSMDevOpsEnterprise ArchitectureQuality AssuranceService ManagementSecurityData GovernanceComplianceLearning ManagementAcademic SystemsStudent AdministrationFinance

Required

Master’s degree required

5+ years of related experience

Strong knowledge and practical application of project management methodologies (predictive, agile) and software (e.g., MS Project, Azure DevOps, JIRA)

Microsoft tools: Teams, SharePoint, Office, Excel (can perform complex functions), Visio, Power BI

Project Management tools: Smartsheet, Concept Draw, MS Project, JIRA, Workfront, Azure DevOps

Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Integration

Organizational Change Management and Value Management methods

ITIL, ITSM, DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, Quality Assurance

Analytics, Service Management, Security and Privacy, Data Governance, Compliance

Learning Management, Academic Systems, Student Administration, Finance, HR, CRM/Student Engagement

Accessibility, Design Thinking, User Experience/Client Experience, Value Management

Preferred

Professional Certification(s) desired: PMP, PMI/Agile/Scrum certifications such as PMI-ACP, CSM, A-CSM, CSPO, A-CSPO, PSM

Benefits

High-quality, low-deductible medical insurance

Low to no-cost dental and vision plans

5 weeks of paid time off (plus almost a dozen paid holidays)

Employer-funded retirement

Free tuition program

Parental leave

Mental health and wellbeing resources

Company

Southern New Hampshire University

Glassdoor

4.0

At SNHU, we believe education is a basic human right and that we must serve learners for whom college is not a guarantee.

Founded in 1932

Manchester, NH

10,001+ employees

http://www.snhu.edu

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