Project Manager Senior

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Who We Are

About the Center for Academic Innovation

Through curricular innovation, tools for student success, and educational research and analytics, the University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation is building the future of education. Our vision is a future in which education connects and empowers learners everywhere to reach their full potential throughout their lives. To realize our vision, we make it our mission to collaborate across campus and around the world to create equitable, lifelong educational opportunities for learners everywhere.

About the Online Learning Team at CAI

The Online Learning teams within CAI include several teams that collaborate with others across the Center and University to design and develop online learning experiences that support the future of education for a global community. We work with faculty and academic unit leaders to envision how they can expand reach and impact, advance innovative teaching, and support greater access and lifelong learning through the design and development of integrated online learning experiences. Our teams focus on the following areas:

• Strategic sourcing of new opportunities for online learning;
• Developing internal and external partnerships that promote engagement with learning experiences;
• Providing program management services throughout degree program development and operations;
• Supporting end-to-end design and development of learning experiences, including project management, learning experience design, and iteration of learning experiences after they have launched;
• Supporting learners' success and engagement in live courses and programs

For more information, please visit our website: Academic Innovation.

Mission Statement

We believe all individuals deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and have the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes mutual respect and a safe space for collaboration. Any concerns shared with any staff members and student employees in the Center for Academic Innovation will be reported to the Equity, Civil Rights, & Title IX Office to be reviewed and addressed, and the Center for Academic Innovation encourages reporting of any forms of harassment including sexual and gender-based harassment.

Responsibilities*

Project Management

• Apply project management skills such as stakeholder communication, relationship management, process management, design, quality assurance, and consultative skills in collaboration with faculty, course teams, administrators, vendors, and other stakeholders
• Manage complex project tasks including project scoping, scheduling, communication plans, budget management, and resource allocation to ensure timely execution and consistency of deliverables across CAI's online learning portfolio
• Align diverse perspectives and relationships, including those of faculty partners, external partners and collaborators, CAI colleagues, and other U-M and external stakeholders at a project level
• Ensure projects are in alignment with current copyright and accessibility standards
• Coordinate policy documentation for CAI initiatives in collaboration with the Associate Director of Project Management, including executing Memorandums of Understanding, amendments, and release and/or waiver forms
• Coordinate and manage financial project components, including expense reimbursements and budget management for the online learning portfolio
• Organize and build project elements into various platforms and learning management systems

Supervision, Leadership, and Initiative Management

• Provide supervision and coaching of direct reports on the Project Management Team by ensuring consistency in processes, providing oversight of workload, communication of role expectations and regular feedback on individual performance, including co-developing and supporting goals and individual assessments in the annual performance review process
• Hire and supervise students for individual projects in consultation with faculty and school/college administration
• Lead planning and implementation of important Online Learning Domain and Project Management Team initiatives through facilitation of working groups, development of process roadmaps, and stewardship of current initiatives
• Develop training materials for managed initiatives to be shared widely across the Project Management and CAI teams

What You'll Do

The Center for Academic Innovation (CAI) at the University of Michigan is seeking a qualified Project Manager Senior to manage the end-to-end design process of the development of online courses and a wide range of academic innovation projects. This role utilizes relationship management skills, creative problem solving, and risk management techniques to create consensus and communicate clear decisions among stakeholders, including CAI colleagues and U-M faculty members, while managing efficient project timelines. This role also includes supervision of Project Manager Intermediates. The Project Manager Senior will report to the Project Management Lead.

Required Qualifications*

• Bachelor's degree and four or more years of project management experience
• Two or more years of supervisory experience, including assigning project work, coaching direct reports, and performance management responsibilities
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Asana and Trello
• Proficiency in Google Workspace, specifically Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides or a similar cloud-based productivity solution
• Familiarity with online learning courses and programs, open educational resources, and learning management systems such as Coursera, edX, FutureLearn, and Canvas
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills demonstrated in interactions with senior level professionals
• Ability to manage workload under constraining timelines with competing priorities
• Excellent critical thinking and adaptability skills within a consultative environment
• Proven ability to manage relationships with multiple stakeholders with a collaborative and customer focused mindset
• Strong commitment to exemplary service, problem solving, teamwork in a multicultural setting, and the ability to act independently
• Ability to learn and appropriately use new technologies to improve processes, communication, and outcomes, including AI-enabled tools where relevant to the role, consistent with university policy and job responsibilities

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Work Schedule

The mode of work for this position is Hybrid with a minimum of 4 days in the office per week, Monday through Thursday, with an option of remote work on Fridays. On occasion, you may be required and must be available to work onsite on Fridays if necessitated by our center's policy and domain leadership or by your job requirements.

Additional Information

This is a 5 year term-limited position with the possibility of renewal depending on funding. The position may be renewed or converted into an open-ended base appointment.

Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the United States.

The salary for this position will be based upon the selected candidate's education and experience.

We support the creative, responsible, and ethical use of AI tools to enhance our work, in alignment with institutional policies and best practices.

Excellent benefits are available, for details, see http://benefits.umich.edu/

Salary Information

The general salary range for this position is $77,000 - $80,000. Candidates can expect to be paid a competitive and equitable salary. Factors used to determine salary include education level, experience, knowledge and skills for the position and salaries that are currently established within the unit. All candidates are encouraged to discuss salary questions to honor alignment and transparency throughout the recruiting process.

Background Screening

The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background checks. Background checks are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO Statement

The University of Michigan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.