Military Higher Ed Programs Lead

Harkcon, Inc.; Fredericksburg (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Harkcon, Inc. seeks a Program Manager to support a military-affiliated higher education initiative.

You will coordinate academic activities, institutional relationships, student tracking, and leadership reporting while guiding education pathways that complement military training and career development. Responsibilities include managing schedules, coordinating with military and academic partners, tracking cohorts, maintaining databases, and developing reports for executive use.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher required.
• Minimum three years in project support, analysis, or admin roles in education/training.
• Experience tracking participants, cohorts, course activity and performance data.
• Ability to coordinate with academic, government, military, and operational stakeholders.
• Strong written communication, research, presentation, organization and customer-service skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, databases, and structured tracking tools.
• Ability to protect student and personnel information and follow records-management requirements.
• Eligibility to obtain a Secret security clearance; active clearance not required.

Responsibilities

• Manage schedules, milestones, risks, actions, deliverables, and communications for education initiatives.
• Coordinate with military, colleges, program offices, advisors, registrars, instructors, and student-support personnel.
• Track student cohorts, participation, course progress, completions, issues, and follow-up actions.
• Maintain program databases, shared workspaces, logs, repositories and management reports.
• Support curriculum reviews, degree-pathway mapping, transfer-credit discussions and articulation activities.
• Develop guides, FAQs, presentations, outreach materials and executive summaries.
• Manage program inboxes and ensure inquiries are researched, routed and documented promptly.
• Analyze participation, progression, completion, service-demand and data trends to identify improvements.
• Support meetings, webinars, orientations, advising events and program reviews.
• Create and coordinate student databases with academic and government reps.
• Evaluate cohorts tracking processes to reduce data-entry gaps.
• Support implementation and maintenance of an automated education-management system.

Skills

Project coordination

Data tracking

Communication

Research

Customer service

Education

Four-year degree

Tools

Excel

Teams

SharePoint

Databases

Tracking tools

Job description

Harkcon, Inc. seeks a Program Manager to support a military-affiliated higher education initiative.

You will coordinate academic activities, institutional relationships, student tracking, and leadership reporting while guiding education pathways that complement military training and career development. Responsibilities include managing schedules, coordinating with military and academic partners, tracking cohorts, maintaining databases, and developing reports for executive use.