Program Manager

Cambium Learning Group; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to transforming the online testing landscape. As a Program Manager, you'll lead large-scale assessment programs, ensuring seamless collaboration with state education departments and stakeholders. Your expertise in project management and risk mitigation will be crucial in delivering high-quality solutions that impact educators and students alike. With a commitment to innovation, this role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technology and contribute to meaningful educational outcomes. If you're passionate about making a difference and ready to tackle exciting challenges, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with experience in high stakes assessments.
• PMP certification is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage project scope, goals, and deliverables with stakeholders.
• Anticipate risks and develop mitigation strategies across teams.
• Conduct project post-implementation meetings to share best practices.

Skills

Project Management

Risk Management

Stakeholder Communication

Requirements Analysis

Quality Assurance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Job Overview:

This team of Program Management professionals has overall responsibility for managing all aspects of large-scale assessment programs that require multiple resources and cross-functional integration. Successful Program Managers ensure adherence to contract specifications, schedules, change/risk management protocols, and budgets, and foster close communication and collaboration with clients.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with state education department leadership and stakeholders to develop and document project scope, goals, and deliverables, including project dependencies, project plans, budget proposals, communications plans, project scope, project schedule, and milestones.

• Anticipate risk and develop mitigation strategies across functional teams.

• Utilize knowledge of system and process dependencies to identify issues, involve appropriate stakeholders in troubleshooting, and implement solutions.

• Interpret and document software requirements and enhancement requests from clients; capturing configuration specifications and working with software teams to implement accordingly.

• Performing UAT to ensure client expectations are met.

• Manage the work of subcontractors/vendors as appropriate.

• Conduct project post-implementation meetings to identify and document successful and unsuccessful project elements, ensuring the application of lessons learned and sharing best practices.

• Review and maintain quality standards, ensuring established processes are followed and all decisions are properly documented.

• Reviewcurrent systems and processes for possible improvements and implement process changes as appropriate, including writing policies and/or procedures and training.

• Run regular internal and external project meetings, developing and delivering progress reports.

• Participate in proposal development activities.

• Assign tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members depending on the complexity of the task and skillset of staff.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required

• Prior experience in the summative, certification, or other high stakes assessment industry is required

• Experience working directly with senior-level clients, government stakeholders, and educators

• Experience working in large-scale assessment or SaaS organization preferred

• PMP certification highly preferred

Why Work With Us?

When you work with Cambium Assessment, you'll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.

Our ground breaking work includes:

• Advanced computer-adaptive algorithms

• Mobile support of user interfaces

• Learning management systems with social media features

• Universally accessible user interfaces

• Machine scorable items

In the 2021-2022 school year, we delivered more than 100 million online tests, successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.3 million simultaneous test takers, while ensuring an average response time of less than a tenth of a second. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students. To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumassessment.com

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.