Remote Skills Ontology & Learning-Recognition Project Lead

umgc; United States; Teletrabalho; USD 80 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

UMGC is seeking a Skills Ontology and Learning Recognition Project Lead to drive grant-funded initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams including faculty SMEs, data specialists, and partner institutions. The role translates strategy into actionable work plans, maintains governance, documentation, and timelines, and ensures transparent, on-schedule delivery.

Under the Director, you will manage crosswalks, standards mappings, and implementation docs, while tracking risks, budgets, and

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in higher education administration, education, workforce development.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain the integrated project plan, timelines, milestones, dependency tracking, and action logs for the learning-recognition workstreams.
• Coordinate day-to-day activity across faculty reviewers, subject matter experts, data and interoperability staff, advising, institutional research, Military and Veterans Programs, and other participating units.
• Track progress against deliverables, technical dependencies, and review cycles; elevate risks, delays, or implementation issues to the Director with recommended next steps.
• Support development and maintenance of working crosswalks, evidence tables, standards mappings, and version-controlled records that operationalize the Director's skills-to-credit strategy.
• Document taxonomy research, standards decisions, architecture and implementation decisions, and process changes so methods remain transparent, auditable, traceable, and reusable.
• Coordinate review cycles, consolidate feedback, and maintain current working materials for project teams, technical contributors, and faculty reviewers.
• Identify, schedule, onboard, and coordinate faculty reviewers and external subject matter experts needed for mapping, policy review, and methodology implementation.
• Manage work plans, meeting schedules, contracts, stipends, and workload documentation in partnership with Academic Affairs, Human Resources, and other administrative offices.
• Prepare materials, agendas, and follow-up items that keep faculty and SMEs aligned on deliverables, review expectations, and deadlines.
• Prepare governance materials, status reports, meeting notes, decision logs, and traceability documentation for internal leadership, partner discussions, and sponsored reporting needs.
• Organize content and documentation supporting reports, toolkit materials, implementation guides, and other dissemination outputs.
• Maintain centralized records of requirements, use cases, approvals, and workflow artifacts, including documentation that supports transparent review of AI-assisted recommendation processes.
• Maintain the project risk register and support mitigation tracking in coordination with the Director and project leadership.
• Monitor personnel and non-personnel expenditures, resource needs, and administrative dependencies related to project operations and faculty engagement.
• Flag emerging issues early and recommend sequencing or resourcing adjustments when timelines, dependencies, or review requirements change.
• Support coordination with partner institutions and ecosystem organizations by scheduling working sessions, documenting requirements, and tracking shared commitments.
• Coordinate logistics and follow-through for demonstrations, pilots, interoperability and standards discussions, schema or data-exchange working sessions, and other cross-institution activities.
• Collaborate with data and interoperability specialists to organize materials related to reusable data structures, standards mappings, APIs, and partner-facing implementation discussions.

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree in higher education administration, education, workforce development

Descrição da oferta de emprego

UMGC is seeking a Skills Ontology and Learning Recognition Project Lead to drive grant-funded initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams including faculty SMEs, data specialists, and partner institutions. The role translates strategy into actionable work plans, maintains governance, documentation, and timelines, and ensures transparent, on-schedule delivery.

Under the Director, you will manage crosswalks, standards mappings, and implementation docs, while tracking risks, budgets, and