Information Technology Project Manager

ACL Digital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ACL Digital seeks an experienced IT Project Manager to lead complex, cross-organization initiatives with strict deadlines. The role collaborates with MBA and Doctoral Programs to support admissions, financial aid, and student lifecycle systems, and to oversee a large maintenance portfolio.

The position requires onsite work with stakeholders and aligns with enterprise IT governance and strategic program delivery across multiple workstreams.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex IT initiatives across multiple orgs.
• Familiarity with student information systems, admissions, financial aid, and student lifecycle processes in higher education.

Responsibilities

• Plan, conduct, and manage complex IT projects requiring integration across units.
• Assemble project teams, assign responsibilities, and develop schedules to ensure timely completion.
• Serve as expert on scope, objectives, and technology, guiding design, testing, and decision-making.
• Collaborate with user groups and stakeholders, including steering committees, for governance and communication.
• Oversee portfolio health: balance enhancements, incidents, tech debt, and decommissioning across ~100 applications.

Skills

Cross-organizational project mgmt

Stakeholder collaboration

Deadline adherence

Higher education IT

Job description

Role requires previous experience managing complex, cross-organization IT initiatives with multiple stakeholders and strict, non-negotiable deadlines. Preference for experience in higher education environments, particularly supporting student information systems and processes related to admissions, financial Aid, and student lifecycle management. Additional requirement to work onsite, to collaborate with stakeholders.

Role will work closely with partners in MBA and Doctoral Programs to lead yearly technology readiness efforts for multiple critical operational workstreams, including school startup, course add/drop, cross-registration, admissions, and financial aid. Additionally, role will oversee application maintenance portfolio health for ~100 applications, partnering with peers in IT on balancing enhancements, incident management, technical debt reduction, and decommissioning efforts.

Description

Plan, conduct, and manage complex information technology projects in a unit or department, requiring high levels of functional integration and involving multiple disciplines to be managed. Assembles project team, assigning responsibilities, identifying resources needed, and developing schedules to ensure timely completion of project. Responsible for project discovery. Serve as expert regarding scope and project objectives, solution�s value and technology, as well as the role and function of each team member. Ensure work completion within schedule, budgetary and design constraints. Make decisions about analysis, design and testing and provide alternative methods as needed. Work collaboratively with colleagues to leverage resources for successful project completion. Make independent decisions within the confines established by sponsors/business owners. Serve as primary contact with user groups and stakeholders. Leverage steering and executive committees for decision-making, change management, and communications. Absorb and leverage project related technology to ensure effective project management and collaboration. Advise unit/school regarding post project operations. Provide training needs as applicable.