Senior Specialist, Project Management Support (Junior Project Manager)

The Senior Specialist, Project Management Support (Junior Project Manager) provides technical Project Management Support for complex projects aligned with organizational strategic goals while supporting team members’ capacity for effective Project Management utilizing best practices.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• • The Senior Specialist, Project Management Support (Junior Project Manager) will hold responsibilities in the following functional areas:
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    Programmatic Project Management Support and Implementation
  • Collaborate with team members to create templates for project planning and Project Management using monday.com
  • Create, track and monitor project plans, logistics boards, and budgets for identified large-scale partnership projects in collaboration with Project Lead and Client Partnership Manager
  • Review and provide feedback to Project Lead and Client Partnership Manager on project plans on a regular basis for identified small-scale partnership projects
  • Communicate with team members and stakeholders on the status of projects
  • Build the buy-in for and mindset toward project planning and Project Management as key to launching and executing timely and high-quality projects
  • Hold shared responsibility for excellent projects that are responsive to partner needs by ensuring effective use of project planning and management tools and processes
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    Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Collaborate with all Project Leads to identify project planning and Project Management needs
  • In collaboration with other members of the Project Management Support team, create and implement opportunities to build project planning and Project Management capacity for all team members
  • Seek and respond to feedback from team members and adjust strategies and operations accordingly
  • Engage in additional work as needed to meet organizational business needs and priorities
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    Engage in Continuous Learning
  • Stay abreast of key research and guidance in the field, attend learning experiences to build skills and competencies
  • Engage in personal and organized learning opportunities as a team member at an organization that aspires to be anti-racist and champions racial equity
  • Stay abreast of key research and guidance in the field, attend learning experiences to build skills and competencies in project planning and Project Management
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    Perform other duties as assigned by the Senior Director, Learning & Research and/or Executive Team.

KEY SUCCESS INDICATORS (KSI)

• • The Senior Specialist, Project Management Support (Junior Project Manager) is accountable for achieving goals set in collaboration with their manager, aligned with FY24 goals, and especially, Key Success Indicators (KSI) like:
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    Operate efficiently and equitably: Develop and refine internal operational structures and systems to allow all team members and contractors to do their best work every day
  • Design, deploy, and train staff members to make use of various real-time and interactive data dashboards which summarize all data collected through partnerships
  • Provide ongoing coaching to the Program team to reflect data back to partners to drive successful collaborations, including in preparation for mid-year and end-of-year stepbacks
  • 90% of FTEs and PTEs agree that they “have the data or information I need to do my work right”
  • As applicable, within the role, model the radical commitments for our values.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

• • Bachelor’s degree and two years of experience with Project Management methodologies
  • At least one year of experience working with a Project Management system (e.g., Monday.com, Asana, Jira, etc)
  • Experience gathering, cleaning, preparing, analyzing, and interpreting data
  • Strong commitment to Teaching Lab’s organizational mission and values in pursuit of educational equity
  • Proficiencies in Teaching Lab competencies
  • Highly effective oral and written communicator with the ability to clearly communicate complex information to non-experts
  • Strong Project Management, organizational, and prioritization skills
  • Highly organized and a detail-oriented self-starter committed to quality
  • Able to work efficiently and autonomously

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• • Experience with the Monday.com Project Management system
  • Experience with K-12 education or non-profit organizations

WORKING CONDITIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

• • Ability to work a flexible schedule to support operational needs
  • Ability to perform the essential project, duties and responsibilities with or without accommodation
  • All team members are expected to support program/project needs which could mean that you play multiple roles at Teaching Lab (i.e., project lead, support, subject matter expert, etc.).
  • Travel could be required for the role. Travel is determined based on business needs and can vary depending on partnership/contract requirements.

TEACHING LAB’S VALUES AND COMPETENCIES

• Teaching Lab’s ultimate goals are:

  All employees are expected to embrace Teaching Lab Values, which are necessary to develop Teaching Lab Competencies, which help us to achieve our Ultimate Goals.

  • Teaching Lab seeks to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning by reaching more educators every year with the highest impact programming.
  • Educators learn more than they would without us
  • Students learn more than they would without us, in a way that cannot be predicted by race, gender, or family income
  • Educators we serve say they love our approach, and they want to keep doing it to advance educational equity
  • Collaboration & Responsive Service
  • Resilient Solution-Finding
  • Research & Learning With Humility
  • Accountable Excellence
  • Equity & Justice

CLOSING DATE

• • This position opened on January 6, 2024 and will close on January 16, 2024. All applications received between January 6, 2024 and January 16, 2024 will be reviewed by the hiring team.