Senior Project Manager – Higher Education Experience

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete implementation of projects for Higher Education institutions, ensuring timely delivery, adherence to scope, and budget compliance.

• Handle multiple simultaneous projects while collaborating with cross-functional teams, including functional consultants, technical consultants, and stakeholders from the client side.

• Act as the main point of contact for clients throughout the entire project lifecycle, fostering strong relationships at the executive level.

• Define project parameters, including scope, timelines, milestones, resource distribution, and risk management strategies.

• Conduct project kickoff meetings, provide status updates, facilitate steering committee meetings, and deliver executive presentations.

• Track project advancement, proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies, and execute corrective action plans when necessary.

• Ensure effective collaboration between internal teams (Implementation, Development, Support, and Sales) and client representatives.

• Oversee project budgets, manage change requests, maintain project documentation, and ensure contractual deliverables are met.

• Enhance client satisfaction by ensuring the successful execution of projects and a seamless transition to post-implementation support.

• Advocate for best practices in project management methodologies, governance, and ongoing process enhancement.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Project Management, Higher Education, or a related discipline.

• Over 5 years of experience managing enterprise software implementation projects, ideally within the Higher Education sector.

• Proven track record in implementing and managing Student Information Systems (SIS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Learning Management Systems (LMS), and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.

• A solid understanding of Higher Education business processes, encompassing Student Lifecycle, Admissions, Registration, Academic Records, Finance, and Student Services.

• Demonstrated experience leading full project lifecycles, from discovery and planning through to implementation, go-live, and post-production support.

• Strong knowledge of various project management methodologies (PMI, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches).

• Experience in managing executive stakeholders, project budgets, timelines, risks, and cross-functional teams.

• Proven capability to manage multiple complex implementation projects concurrently.

• Exceptional leadership, communication, negotiation, presentation, and organizational skills.

• Experience collaborating with international clients and remote teams.

• PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, or equivalent project management certification is strongly preferred.

• Practical experience with solutions such as Ellucian Banner, Colleague, PowerCampus, Anthology Student, Workday Student, PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Oracle ERP, SAP, or similar enterprise platforms is highly desirable.

• Advanced proficiency in English (C1) is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contractor model

• Remote working model

• Salary in $USD

• Paid vacation

• Day off for birthdays

• Benefits for courses and/or certifications

• Opportunity to collaborate with top-tier U.S. clients.

• Entrepreneurial and multicultural team culture.