Senior Project Manager
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- Central Administration
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- 6 days ago Post Date
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$111,454 - $86,025 Note: This position is not represented by a union. The salary range for this position is
The School District of Philadelphia is committed to becoming the fastest improving District in the country and transforming the educational opportunities it offers to our city’s more than 200,000 students. The District seeks leaders who have a passion for working with schools and communities who are committed to ensuring all students achieve. Serving a population as diverse as ours requires creativity, commitment and vision. Will you join us?
Job Summary
This is administrative and managerial project work, overseeing all components of a largescale Facilities, Information Technology, System of Great Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Chief Academic Support Office, Strategy Delivery Unit, College and Career Readiness,
Finance, Office of the Superintendent-Equity Coalition and Equity Partners, Evaluation,
Research, and Accountability, Student Recruitment and Enrollment - Internal Partners Program or Leadership Development projects and initiatives, inclusive of project scope preparation, return on investment (ROI) analysis, financial projection, project and life cycle implementation, staffing coordination and/or management, contract administration, and budget oversight. Employees in this class are responsible for facilitating dialogue between internal customers, technology staff, developers, vendors, external agencies, schools and community partners. Work involves meetings with clients to discuss their needs and documenting business rules for various projects and/or identifying and implementing professional learning with central offices, schools and community partners. Serves as a point of contact for clients with projects in progress. Work additionally involves formally employing industry-recognized projects management principles, techniques, and best practices, to develop, monitor, report, and coordinate all aspects of a project from inception to post-implementation support. Ensures that actions are strategic and include a plan on the evaluation of progress. Project oversight activities may additionally include coordination of support activities inclusive of training, outreach, and customer relationship management. Ensures that data pertaining to programmatic activities is systematically collected, reviewed and analyzed. Projects in this class are classified as large and complex enterprise-wide information service, application software, technology infrastructure initiatives or administrative educational initiatives characterized by multi-year life cycles.
Essential Functions
• Develops strategies for appropriate scopes of work.
• Participates or directs contract negotiation and/or preparation.
• Plans and manages timelines, and monitors progress of various projects and work streams; provides progress updates to project leads.
• Works with selected teams on specific aspects of meeting project goals in a timely manner.
• Prepares, manages, audits, and maintains direct responsibly for project budgets.
• Prepares reports related to project status and projections.
• Directly supervises project or department staff as required.
• Develops and builds good communications and relationships between Facilities, Information Technology, Teacher Effectiveness, the Chief Academic Support Office or the Office of College and Career Readiness and central offices and schools.
• Participates in confidential and/or sensitive matters and/or projects at every level of the enterprise.
• Works with in setting priorities for the completion of requested services.
• Participates in organizational planning within Facilities, Transportation, Information Technology, Teacher Effectiveness, the Chief Academic Support Office or the Office of College and Career Readiness and other departmental offices.
• Assists in various Facilities, Transportation, Information Technology, Teacher Effectiveness, Chief Academic Support Office or the Office of College and Career Readiness projects when needed.
• Supports all administrative and managerial project work related to the development and implementation of the Equity Coalition and Equity Partners Fellowship.
• Leads the design and implementation of the District’s paraprofessional pipeline work, identifying and prioritizing recommendations; developing implementation plans; defining measurable outcomes; determining resource requirements and developing timelines for the completion of tasks.
• Organizes and facilitates a variety of paraprofessional pathways partnerships, including coordinating opportunities offered by external partners.
• Collaborates with leadership teams and leaders’ supervisors and ensures that techniques, curriculum, and methods are consistent with District competencies, goals, and objectives.
Serves as a key resource ensuring that the operational requirements and/or recommendations related to teacher competencies and partnerships receive timely and appropriate attention, leadership and action.
• Works directly with Directors/Managers of the office on necessary projects.
• Makes recommendations to the Chief Talent Officer; Deputy Chief, Talent Acquisition; Director, Strategy and Operations and other District executives when appropriate.
• Manages office e-mails.
• Actively involved in developing and implementing comprehensive and tactical strategic plans.
• Works with all offices and schools to ensure any policy, program and/or deliverable clearly and consistently is understood, communicated, and implemented in accordance to the directives of the assigned office and in conjunction with the SDP mission and vision.
• Evaluates the administrative operations regularly to assess effectiveness and efficiency; periodically meets with staff members to assess the status of business operations; insures departmental goals and objectives are met and makes recommendations for process and/or program modifications as needed.
• Develops and maintains close working relationships with administrators, central office staff members, university personnel, PFT union leadership members, and other stakeholders.
• Oversees and leads ongoing and strategic projects and their implementation for the Office of Talent Support Services, including summer staffing, contracted special education teacher placement, and more.
Minimum Requirements
• Completion of a bachelor’s degree program from an accredited college or university.
• Six years of full-time, paid, professional, experience in either operations, finance, education, or information technology which has included serving as a team lead or project manager.
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• Any equivalent combination of training and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Talent.
NOTE: An applicant who does not meet the minimum education or work experience requirements listed above may be considered if, at the sole discretion of the Talent Office, they have a unique combination of education and work experiences that indicates potential for
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities All Specialties
• Demonstrated knowledge of:
o The procedures and methods utilized to implement systemic change in a timely, accurate, and effective manner.
o Asana Project Management, FileMaker Pro Advanced, Excel or Microsoft
Project, Vision and/or other productivity and scheduling tools.
o Process improvement and the methods utilized to implement systemic change.
o The methods and technique utilized in effective program planning, design and administration.
o Principles, practices, and procedures involved in monitoring and reporting processes.
o Principles, practices, and procedures underlying coordination of large-scale projects and initiatives.
o Accurate record keeping.
• Demonstrated ability to:
o Manage large or complex projects and/or budgets.
o Plan, organize, and direct project activities and allocate staff resources to tasks efficiently.
o Analyze and resolve complex problems.
o Represent a superior at meetings and conferences.
o Present ideas effectively, both orally and in writing.
o Formulate solutions to complex problems and develop strategies to address the identified issues based on quantitative and/or qualitative evidence.
o Assess the effectiveness of programmatic activities and to make cogent recommendations as needed.
o Build and maintain strong, effective working relationships across all levels of an organization.
o Coordinate cross-functional teams.
o Understand, interpret, and analyze a variety of data sources. o Design and develop systems, tools, and schedules for collecting, maintaining, and reporting on performance data.
o Adapt to different situations, particularly when new information is provided.
o Use MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
