Skills Ontology and Learning Recognition Project Lead

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

📋 Description

• Assist in the execution of UMGC’s learning-recognition initiative by managing daily operational tasks.

• Convert the Director’s skills ontology, translation framework, and project strategy into actionable work plans, documentation, stakeholder follow-ups, and coordinated delivery.

• Keep integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependency tracking, and action logs updated.

• Facilitate coordination among faculty reviewers, subject matter experts, data and interoperability personnel, advising, institutional research, Military and Veterans Programs, and other departments.

• Monitor deliverables, technical dependencies, review cycles, risks, delays, and implementation challenges.

• Assist with crosswalks, evidence tables, standards mappings, version-controlled records, taxonomy research, and implementation documentation.

• Organize review cycles, compile feedback, and maintain up-to-date project materials.

• Identify, schedule, onboard, and coordinate faculty reviewers and external subject matter experts.

• Oversee work plans, meeting schedules, contracts, stipends, and workload documentation.

• Create agendas, meeting materials, follow-up items, governance documents, status reports, meeting notes, decision logs, and traceability documentation.

• Preserve records of requirements, use cases, approvals, workflow artifacts, and AI-assisted recommendation process documentation.

• Maintain the project risk register and assist in tracking mitigation efforts.

• Track personnel and non-personnel expenditures, resource requirements, and administrative dependencies.

• Suggest adjustments in sequencing or resources when timelines, dependencies, or review requirements shift.

• Coordinate with partner institutions and ecosystem organizations, facilitating working sessions, demonstrations, pilots, interoperability discussions, and standards or data-exchange meetings.

• Organize materials related to reusable data structures, standards mappings, APIs, and partner-facing implementation discussions.

• Carry out additional duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree is required.

• A Master's degree in higher education administration, education, workforce development, project management, instructional design, information science, assessment, or a related field is preferred.

• A minimum of 5–7 years of progressively responsible experience in project or program coordination, academic administration, learning recognition, workforce-aligned education, skills-related initiatives, or a similar area.

• Proven experience in managing project plans, workstreams, timelines, documentation, and stakeholder communication across various contributors and functional areas.

• Working knowledge of skills taxonomies, ontologies, competency frameworks, prior learning assessment (PLA), credentialing, or structured crosswalks.

• Ability to facilitate subject-matter work without being the primary methodological authority.

• Experience in coordinating faculty or subject matter expert engagement, including meeting preparation, work-plan management, follow-up, documentation, and review logistics.

• Strong organizational, analytical, and written communication skills are essential.

• Experience in producing status reports, meeting materials, technical documentation, implementation records, and process guides.

• Proficiency with project management tools, shared documentation platforms, implementation artifacts, risk tracking, budget/resource monitoring, and transparent decision logs.

• Experience in supporting grant-funded initiatives, multi-institution collaborations, or externally sponsored projects is preferred.

• Familiarity with military learning evaluation, workforce learning records, digital credentials, interoperability-related initiatives, or standards-mapping work is preferred.

• Exposure to AI-assisted recommendation or evaluation workflows, documentation traceability, data governance, or quality assurance practices is preferred.

• PMP certification, CAPM, Agile/project coordination training, or similar experience is preferred.

• Experience collaborating with Academic Affairs, faculty governance, sponsored programs, institutional research, assessment functions, or technical/data teams in a university setting is preferred.

• A cover letter and resume are required.

🏝️ Benefits

• 22 days of paid vacation.

• 15 days of sick leave.

• 3 personal days.

• 16 paid holidays (17 during general election years).

• Comprehensive health care, including medical with vision, dental, and prescription plans for individuals and families.

• Subsidized Maryland medical and prescription benefits for eligible Contingent II employees.

• Health-plan purchase stipend for eligible Contingent II employees.

• Term Life Insurance.

• Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance.

• Long-Term Disability Insurance for eligible employees.

• Retirement stipend equivalent to 7.25 percent of base salary.

• Supplemental retirement account (SRA).

• Options for 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), and Roth plans.

• Immediate tuition remission at UMGC or University of Maryland College Park for eligible CII employees.

• Undergraduate tuition remission for spouses and dependent children after two years of service.