Workday Student Project Manager

EDUCAUSE; Bryn Mawr (PA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation & Personal Leave

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

Tuition Opportunities

Job summary

Bryn Mawr College is seeking a full-time Project Manager to lead the Workday Student implementation and coordinate across functional and technical teams. The role reports to IT leadership and collaborates with campus partners to ensure timely decision-making and successful delivery of a multi-year enterprise transformation.

The position emphasizes disciplined project delivery, stakeholder alignment, and use of AI-enabled tools to streamline governance and execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Experience in higher education or similarly complex, mission-driven organizations.
• Demonstrated experience with Workday Platform or comparable ERP systems.
• Significant experience leading large-scale enterprise system implementations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Experience working with external implementation partners and consultants.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex project information for diverse audiences.
• Comfort using AI-enabled productivity tools to support project coordination, documentation, and communication in a responsible and practical way.
• Successful completion of satisfactory background checks.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of the Workday Student implementation.
• Own the project framework, methodology, and delivery approach.
• Establish and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies across project phases.
• Coordinate work across functional and technical teams, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities.
• Facilitate structured decision-making and issue resolution across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Ensure clarity of roles, responsibilities, and expectations across project participants.
• Support continuity of project execution during periods of organizational or leadership transition.
• Contribute to PMO governance processes, including steering committee preparation and status reporting.
• Align project execution with PMO standards, prioritization frameworks, and portfolio objectives.
• Manage cross-project dependencies within the Workday platform and broader PMO portfolio.
• Provide clear, consistent reporting on progress, risks, and decisions to leadership.
• Use practical AI-enabled tools and workflows to reduce administrative burden, improve meeting follow-through, and support timely coordination across project workstreams.
• Serve as the primary interface between internal project teams and external implementation partners.
• Coordinate with functional leads representing key institutional areas (e.g., Registrar, Finance, Academic Affairs).
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders to support alignment, engagement, and accountability.
• Ensure effective collaboration across institutional and vendor teams.
• Partner closely with Change Management leadership to align delivery plans with communication, training, and adoption strategies.
• Support a coordinated approach to stakeholder readiness and institutional transition.
• Reinforce alignment between project milestones and organizational change activities.
• Participate in change management activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Workday

ERP implementations

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

PM certification (preferred)

Tools

Project management tools

Workday Student

Job description

Position Overview

The Department of Library & Information Technology Services seeks a full-time Project Manager for a project-funded, full-time, term-limited position with an estimated duration of three years. This is an at will position, contingent upon available funding and continued employment in good standing. The Project Manager plays a key leadership role in planning and delivering the Workday Student implementation at Bryn Mawr College. Reporting to the Associate Vice President, Library & Information Technology Services and working closely with functional leads, technical teams, senior stakeholders, and campus partners, the Project Manager coordinates work across functional, technical, institutional, and vendor teams to ensure clear plans, effective governance, timely decision-making, and successful execution. The role supports disciplined project delivery while fostering collaboration, accountability, and organizational readiness throughout a complex enterprise transformation.

About the Institution

About the Institution: Since its founding in 1885, Bryn Mawr College has been the preeminent college for women interested in the pursuit of wisdom necessary to challenge the world's expectations. With its pioneering American Collegiate Gothic architecture and picturesque landscape, our campus is recognized as one of the most beautiful in the country. Located less than 15 miles from Philadelphia, and within 2-3 hours of New York City, Baltimore, and Washington, DC, Bryn Mawr’s location offers easy access to public transportation and endless recreation, dining, retail, and cultural activities.

Schedule & Benefits

Schedule & Benefits: Bryn Mawr is committed to building and sustaining a campus community where faculty and staff can thrive. The College offers competitive salaries and excellent benefits. This full-time, term-limited staff position has an anticipated schedule of 35 hours per week and is eligible for vacation, personal leave, generous holiday time, sick leave, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, medical, dental, and vision, retirement, paid parental leave, tuition opportunities, and more. Waiting periods may apply.

Characteristic Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of the Workday Student implementation.
• Own the project framework, methodology, and delivery approach.
• Establish and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies across project phases.

Operational and Organizational Leadership

• Coordinate work across functional and technical teams, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities.
• Facilitate structured decision-making and issue resolution across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Ensure clarity of roles, responsibilities, and expectations across project participants.
• Support continuity of project execution during periods of organizational or leadership transition.

Program, Portfolio, and Governance Management

• Contribute to PMO governance processes, including steering committee preparation and status reporting.
• Align project execution with PMO standards, prioritization frameworks, and portfolio objectives.
• Manage cross-project dependencies within the Workday platform and broader PMO portfolio.
• Provide clear, consistent reporting on progress, risks, and decisions to leadership.
• Use practical AI-enabled tools and workflows to reduce administrative burden, improve meeting follow-through, and support timely coordination across project workstreams.

Stakeholder, Vendor, and Partnership Management

• Serve as the primary interface between internal project teams and external implementation partners.
• Coordinate with functional leads representing key institutional areas (e.g., Registrar, Finance, Academic Affairs).
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders to support alignment, engagement, and accountability.
• Ensure effective collaboration across institutional and vendor teams.

Change Management Partnership

• Partner closely with Change Management leadership to align delivery plans with communication, training, and adoption strategies.
• Support a coordinated approach to stakeholder readiness and institutional transition.
• Reinforce alignment between project milestones and organizational change activities.
• Participate in change management activities.

Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Experience in higher education or similarly complex, mission-driven organizations.
• Demonstrated experience with Workday Platform or comparable ERP systems.
• Significant experience leading large-scale enterprise system implementations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Experience working with external implementation partners and consultants.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex project information for diverse audiences.
• Comfort using AI-enabled productivity tools to support project coordination, documentation, and communication in a responsible and practical way.
• Successful completion of satisfactory background checks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Workday Student or comparable student information systems.
• PMP certification or coursework.

The successful candidate will be:

• A disciplined project leader who combines structured execution with adaptability.
• A clear communicator who builds trust across technical and functional stakeholders.
• Skilled at navigating complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities.
• Collaborative and solutions-oriented, with a focus on delivering outcomes.