PROJECT DIRECTOR, TITLE III PROJECT AIM

Rockland Community College; Village of Suffern (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Rockland Community College is seeking a Project Director for the Title III PROJECT AIM grant. You will lead the AI-literacy framework, oversee the grant budget and personnel, and collaborate with multiple college divisions and external partners to advance AI-enabled teaching, learning, and student success.

The role requires strategic leadership, project management, and strong coordination across academics, student services, and IT to ensure compliance and timely delivery of grant objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of two years of full-time experience in higher education.
• Experience with technology-enabled initiatives supporting student success and analytics.
• Experience with project management, budget oversight, staff supervision, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong interpersonal, written, oral, organizational, technology, and data-interpretation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Project AIM implementation with goals, activities, timelines, deliverables, and outcomes.
• Monitor milestones, expenditures, and progress; address barriers as needed.
• Coordinate divisions, consultants, vendors, and partners to align with the grant.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, SUNY, and College requirements; support sustainability.
• Serve as the College's institutional AI lead and coordinate responsible AI adoption.
• Oversee student-success technology, analytics, and advising tools.
• Recruit, hire, supervise, evaluate, and support grant-funded personnel.
• Budget, procurement, and reporting activities for Project AIM.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget oversight

Staff supervision

Data interpretation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

PROJECT DIRECTOR, TITLE III PROJECT AIM

Rockland Community College SUNY

This is a grant-funded position with an anticipated duration of up to five years. Continued employment is contingent upon the availability of grant funding, annual funding approval, and the ongoing needs of the College.

Position Summary

The Project Director serves as the College's institutional lead for Project AIM: Artificial Intelligence for Momentum, a federally funded Title III Strengthening Institutions Program initiative. The position provides strategic leadership in advancing responsible AI adoption, teaching and learning, workforce readiness, professional development, and student success.

The Project Director oversees the implementation and administration of the grant, including budget management, compliance, supervision of grant-funded personnel, evaluation, and reporting. The position ensures that project activities align with grant objectives, timelines, and institutional priorities.

Reporting to the Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, the Project Director collaborates with the Vice President of Academic Affairs and other College departments, faculty, and external partners to support the successful implementation of Project AIM.

Essential Job Functions

• Project Leadership and Grant Administration
• Lead Project AIM implementation, including approved goals, activities, timelines, deliverables, and outcomes.
• Monitor milestones, performance measures, expenditures, and implementation progress; address barriers as needed.
• Coordinate internal divisions, consultants, vendors, and partners to maintain alignment with the approved grant.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, SUNY, Rockland County, and College requirements and support sustainability planning.
• Institutional AI Leadership and Academic Momentum
• Serve as the College's institutional AI lead and coordinate responsible AI adoption aligned with Project AIM and SUNY academic momentum goals.
• Lead the development of RCC's AI Literacy and Competency Framework, including student, faculty, staff, and administrator assessments.
• Oversee AI Fellows, Faculty Learning Communities, the AIM Advisory Team, workshops, professional development, and innovation mini grants.
• Coordinate ethical AI guidance, academic integrity, privacy, accessibility, transparency, assessment, and responsible implementation.
• Student Success Systems and Academic Momentum
• Implement student-success technology and analytics, including early alerts, predictive analytics, automated communications, advising tools, shared notes, and dashboards.
• Strengthen proactive advising, closed-loop referrals, follow-up processes, and coordinated student-support workflows.
• Support onboarding, first-year experiences, FAFSA completion, tutoring, testing, educational planning, service use, persistence, and completion.
• Monitor approved technology, accessibility, academic integrity, testing, tutoring, and student communication initiatives.
• Personnel and Collaborative Leadership
• Recruit, hire, supervise, evaluate, and support grant-funded personnel adhering to College policies and approved staffing plans.
• Direct project staff, including the Professional Development Coordinator, Student Success Applications Programmer Analyst, and Student Intern.
• Coordinate work assignments, deliverables, timelines, and accountability for project staff and teams.
• Convene the AIM Advisory Team and engage faculty, students, shared governance, employers, advisory partners, and stakeholders.
• Budget, Procurement, and Compliance
• Oversee the approved Project AIM budget, including expenditures, encumbrances, contracts, staffing costs, and balances.
• Coordinate purchases and contracts with Grants, Finance, IT, Procurement, and Rockland County.
• Ensure costs are approved, necessary, reasonable, allocable, documented, and properly supported.
• Maintain consultant, vendor, programmatic, fiscal, personnel, procurement, and performance records, including required approvals.
• Evaluation, Reporting, and Communication

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of two years of full-time experience in higher education.
• Demonstrated experience in technology-enabled initiatives supporting student success, retention, persistence, completion, analytics, and cross-functional innovation efforts.
• Experience with project management, budget oversight, staff supervision, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong interpersonal, written, oral, organizational, technology, and data-interpretation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree from an accredited institution.
• Experience managing or supporting federal grants, community college initiatives, or open-access higher education programs.
• Experience leading or supporting AI initiatives in higher education, workforce development, teaching and learning, or institutional operations.
• Knowledge of responsible AI use, including ethics, academic integrity, privacy, accessibility, transparency, and data governance.
• Experience implementing advising, early-alert, or technology-enabled workflow initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Ability to translate grant goals into work plans, timelines, deliverables, and measurable results.
• Ability to lead cross-functional change across academic, student support, technology, and administrative areas.
• Ability to interpret program, student-success, and implementation data and use findings for improvement.
• Ability to communicate grant, AI, technology, regulatory, and data-related information to varied audiences.
• Sound judgment, discretion, attention to detail, accountability, follow-through, and commitment to responsible use of AI and institutional data.

About Project AIM

Project AIM is a five-year, $2,999,650 Title III Strengthening Institutions Program initiative, of which one year of funding ($776,245) has been awarded to date. The project is focused on institutional capacity for AI-enhanced teaching and learning, workforce readiness, professional development, student-success technologies, predictive analytics, advising, early intervention, tutoring, testing, accessibility, academic momentum, and evaluation.

Starting Salary: $100,000 - $110,000

Application Deadline: Search will remain open until candidate is selected

Include three (3) professional references (including names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses). References will not be contacted without prior permission from the candidate. Employment at the College may be subject to the favorable result of a background investigation. Official transcripts will be required upon employment. Foreign transcripts which are not accompanied by an evaluation from an approved agency may not be reviewed. Applicants may contact NACES (National Association of Credential Evaluating Service) at www.naces.org to obtain a list of members providing this service. Any expenses incurred for this service must be borne by the applicant. Foreign transcript translations by applicant or educational institution are not acceptable.

Rockland Community College is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from women, people of color, veterans and individuals with disabilities. Our mission demonstrates a strong public commitment to a diverse and inclusive campus community.