Belmont University · 4 days ago
Project Manager
Nashville, TN
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expBelmont University is seeking a qualified Project Manager to join their Office of Strategy & Innovation. The Project Manager will manage a diverse portfolio of initiatives, ensuring effective project planning, coordination, and communication to advance the university's strategic goals.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Manage multiple projects simultaneously, varying in scope, duration, and complexity
Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, milestones, workplans, and task management systems from discover through deployment
Build and steward the digital operating space for each project, including file structures, shared workspaces, documentation, and communication tools
Track and manage tasks for self and project teams, ensuring accountability and follow-through
Provide timely responses and proactive coordination to keep work moving forward
Balance rigorous attention to detail with the interpersonal skills needed to help groups stay aligned through complexity and change
Regularly improve Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for each phase, detailing protocols, benchmarks, and best practices to streamline processes and ensure consistency
Manage events and gatherings for project-specific activities
Serve as a connective tissue across faculty, staff, administrators, students, external partners, and internal units across campus for project specific work and deliverables
Coordinate effectively with internal departments and offices as projects require, ensuring alignment with institutional processes and priorities
Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, and milestone reviews that drive clarity and decision-making
Anticipate needs, surface risks early, and help teams navigate constraints and tradeoffs
Use influence, intuition, and relational skill to motivate progress and alignment without formal authority
Manage project-level budgets, timelines, and resource allocations
Track and manage time, effort, and capacity across projects
Support vendor selection, contracting coordination, and ongoing vendor management within projects
Monitor scope, risks, dependencies, and resource constraints and communicate impacts clearly
Prepare clear, timely project updates and reports for key milestones and meetings
Develop materials for both project teams and executive sponsors, including senior leaders and funders
Maintain organized, accurate project documentation, dashboards, and status reporting
Prepare brand-appropriate assets (e.g., slides, briefs, summaries) to support meetings, communications, and decision-making
Communicate effectively and professionally, both verbally and in writing, across a wide range of audiences
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
3–6 years of experience in project management or operations in consulting, agency, higher education, or innovation environments
Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects simultaneously across diverse stakeholder groups
Strong organizational skills paired with excellent written and verbal communication
Experience in ClickUp or other similar PM tool, Google suite, Microsoft Office suite, Canva and utilization of AI tools for workplace efficiency
Preferred
Experience in higher education, social innovation, design-based work, or cross-sector partnerships
Familiarity with design thinking, EOS/traction or adaptive project management approaches
Comfort working in environments where goals and solutions are co-created rather than predetermined
Company
Belmont University
Belmont University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Sarah D. Cates
Vice President for Imagination, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships
Cate McLeane
Director of External Partnerships and Strategic Communications, Belmont Innovation Labs
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