Senior Project Manager (High Impact Tutoring)
- 📁
- Central Office
- 📅
- 6 days ago Post Date
- 📅
- 127 Total Views
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 large scale Curriculum and Instruction 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 the Office of Curriculum and Instruction 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 the Office of Curriculum and Instruction and other departmental offices.
- Assists in various projects when needed.
Additional Functions for the Chief Academic Support Office Specialty
• Drives incorporation of performance management approaches – and performance culture – in key interactions across the organization.
• Collaborates with managers of academic initiatives to define performance goals, set targets, and develop project timelines and milestones to help reach performance goals.
• Establishes routines and facilitates regular project meetings among various District staff involved in implementing and evaluating initiatives for purposes of progress monitoring, program review, and program improvement.
• Provides problem-solving support to initiative managers and helps ensure that input and feedback from colleagues across the organization is solicited and incorporated.
• Supports initiative managers to identify risks, strategize solutions, and develop plans to address identified issues in order to maintain initiative/project momentum.
• Helps drive process, including data analysis, recommendation development, decision making, and communication.
• Serves as a liaison between the Chief Academic Support Office and other District offices to build collaborative relationships across functional teams.
• Supports the roll-out of the portfolio of actions related to the Anchor Goals, including development and review of metrics, targets, and trajectories; prepares for and facilitates support for performance dialogues and progress assessments.
• Collects, analyzes, interprets and utilizes data to evaluate program effectiveness, works closely with District academic offices to compile and report out on local data.
• Assists with the resolution of complex procedural issues and provides support for specialized policy-oriented research efforts.
• Supports the use of a common system of measurement and academic metrics as outlined by the Office of Research and Evaluation, ensures consultants’ contributions are complimentary, and eliminates duplication of resources.
• Acts as member of Academic Leadership Team.
• Collaborates as part of a team to create and drive the overall work of the Chief Academic Support Office.
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.
OR
• Any equivalent combination of training and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Talent.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities All Specialties
Demonstrated knowledge of:
- Process improvement and the methods utilized to implement systemic change.
- The methods and technique utilized in effective program planning, design and administration.
- Principles, practices, and procedures involved in monitoring and reporting processes.
- Principles, practices, and procedures underlying coordination of large-scale projects and initiatives.
- Accurate record keeping.
Demonstrated ability to:
- Lead and implement strategic initiatives under aggressive deadlines.
- Function as an entrepreneurial self-starter, a team leader, a facilitator, and as a member of a team.
- Work on multiple projects simultaneously, as evidenced by an ability to balance and prioritize multiple competing priorities.
- Formulate solutions to complex problems and develop strategies to address the identified issues based on quantitative and/or qualitative evidence.
- Assess the effectiveness of programmatic activities and to make cogent recommendations as needed.
- Build and maintain strong, effective working relationships across all levels of an organization. o Coordinate cross-functional teams.
- Understand, interpret, and analyze a variety of data sources.
- Design and develop systems, tools, and schedules for collecting, maintaining, and reporting on performance data.
- Adapt to different situations, particularly when new information is provided.
- Use MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Nondiscrimination
The School District of Philadelphia provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, age, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, disability, pregnancy, marital status, gender identity, or genetic information. Please refer to Board Policy 348 for further information regarding the District's commitment to Nondiscrimination in Employment Practices.
