Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Lead daily operations, coordination, and management for the Albizu AI Teaching, Learning, and Support Initiative (AITLS), a five-year Title III Strengthening Institutions Program project supported by the U.S. Department of Education.

• Oversee the execution of project goals, objectives, activities, timelines, deliverables, and performance metrics across both academic and administrative units.

• Act as the main operational point of contact between project leadership, faculty, support centers, consultants, instructional designers, shared services, campus offices, and other stakeholders.

• Ensure implementation aligns with the approved grant proposal, objectives, timeline, budget, and U.S. Department of Education guidelines.

• Convert the grant proposal into annual and semester-based implementation strategies, work plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.

• Facilitate activities across Academic Programs, Institutional Management and Student Services, and Financial Stability.

• Keep the master project implementation calendar updated and track activities, milestones, deliverables, and performance targets.

• Oversee the redesign of the online BS in Psychology program, focusing on curriculum alignment, AI literacy integration, Quality Matters activities, faculty development, and instructional design.

• Manage the operations of the Distance Education Success Center, AI-powered student navigation chatbot, and Virtual Navigator model.

• Contribute to the Graduation Initiative and efforts aimed at enhancing student retention, persistence, financial clearance, and degree completion.

• Organize implementation meetings; create agendas, document decisions, maintain action-item logs, and follow up with responsible parties.

• Track progress, identify delays, barriers, risks, and deviations, and ensure the maintenance of performance data and project dashboards.

• Coordinate monthly, semiannual, annual, evaluation, and other mandated project reports.

• Collaborate with Grant Administration to ensure that expenditures and administrative functions align with the approved grant budget and scope.

• Manage consultants, subject-matter experts, instructional designers, trainers, and other project collaborators.

• Maintain detailed project documentation that demonstrates implementation fidelity and the completion of grant-funded activities.

• Assist with communication efforts directed at senior leadership and internal and external stakeholders.

• Support the institutionalization and sustainability of successful practices funded by the grant.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Master's degree from an accredited institution in higher education administration, education, business administration, project management, public administration, organizational leadership, or a related field.

• Three (3) years of increasingly responsible experience managing complex projects, preferably within higher education.

• Proven experience in coordinating cross-functional teams and managing multiple concurrent workstreams.

• Proficiency in project management, reporting, data management, and productivity tools.

• Strong preference for candidates with experience managing federally funded initiatives or significant institutional projects.

• Strong preference for candidates with experience using Canvas.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional development and growth.

• Engaging work environment focused on innovation and collaboration.