Accreditation & Institutional Effectiveness Project Manager

noordacollegeofosteopathicmedicine; Provo (UT); On-site; USD 44,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine is seeking a Temporary Accreditation & Institutional Effectiveness Project Manager to organize accreditation initiatives, coordinate documentation, and keep NWCCU accreditation efforts on schedule. Working with senior college leaders, you will manage narratives, evidence, and reports ensuring accuracy and timely submission.

Ideal candidates hold a Bachelor's degree with experience in accreditation processes in higher education, strong communication, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred.
• Experience in project coordination/management and document management in higher education.
• Strong written and verbal communication, detail-oriented, able to handle confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Maintain project timelines, assignments, deadlines, and status updates.
• Collect, organize, format, and track accreditation narratives and evidence.
• Manage files, links, references, exhibits, and appendices.
• Identify missing materials, inconsistencies, and project risks.
• Coordinate meetings and follow up with administrators, faculty, staff.
• Support final report assembly, formatting, and quality control.

Skills

Project coordination

Documentation management

Accreditation knowledge

Microsoft Office

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

NWCCU

COCA

AACSB

Job description

Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine is seeking a Temporary Accreditation & Institutional Effectiveness Project Manager to keep high-impact accreditation initiatives organized, accurate, and on schedule! Working closely with senior College leaders, this role will coordinate documentation and project workflows supporting NWCCU accreditation and the College’s COCA interim report.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain project timelines, assignments, deadlines, and status updates.
• Collect, organize, format, and track accreditation narratives and supporting evidence.
• Manage files, document versions, hyperlinks, references, exhibits, and appendices.
• Identify missing materials, inconsistencies, broken links, and project risks.
• Coordinate meetings and follow up with administrators, faculty, and staff.
• Support final report assembly, formatting, and quality control.

What You Bring

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience preferred.
• Experience: Experience in project coordination/management, administrative coordination, document management, institutional effectiveness, accreditation, higher education administration, or a related field preferred. Experience with NWCCU, COCA, AACSB, or other institutional or professional accreditation process is preferred but not required.
• Skills & Abilities: Highly organized and detail-oriented professional with excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, deadlines, contributors, and documents. Must demonstrate strong judgment, follow-through, professionalism, and discretion when working with senior administrators, faculty, staff, and accreditation leaders.

Must be:

• Able to manage large, complex documents and collections of supporting evidence, including documents containing extensive hyperlinks, references, exhibits, and cross-referenced materials.
• Highly organized with strong document management and version-control skills.
• Able to establish and maintain systems for project tracking: assignments, deadlines, responsible parties, status, and outstanding items.
• Comfortable following up with individuals at all levels of an organization to obtain information and keep projects moving.
• Exceptionally detail-oriented, with strong proofreading and quality-control skills.
• Able to recognize missing information, inconsistencies, broken links, outdated documents, and other issues that could compromise the completeness of a submission.
• Able to work independently while also functioning effectively as part of a collaborative team.
• Self-motivated, dependable, and capable of managing priorities with limited supervision.
• Able to work effectively under deadline pressure and manage multiple competing priorities.
• Comfortable learning unfamiliar accreditation requirements, terminology, and reporting structures.
• Able to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment when handling institutional and sensitive information.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel, including the ability to work with large documents, tables, hyperlinks, and spreadsheets.
• Comfortable working with shared electronic files, cloud-based document systems, and other collaboration and project-management tools.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with NWCCU, COCA, AACSB, or other accreditation processes; experience working in higher education; experience supporting accreditation reports, self-studies, interim reports, or institutional effectiveness activities; experience with project-management or task-tracking software; and experience assembling large, complex reports with extensive supporting documentation and cross-references.

Why Join Us

• You’ll collaborate with dedicated higher education leaders, contribute to mission-critical accreditation work, and make a meaningful impact on the College’s continued growth and success— all within a flexible, part-time assignment.

• Competitive pay range of $32.00–$35.00 per hour, depending on qualifications and experience.
  • All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a background check and verification of applicable credentials and licensure.

Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against individuals in any phase of the application or employment phase on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition including medical characteristics, marital status, veteran status, economic status, genetic identification, political belief, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. The College adheres to all relevant government statutes, and state and federal laws.