Project Manager

Who We Are:
Born out of higher education HelioCampus works with institutions throughout North America to optimize financial decisionmaking and assessment/accreditation processes and provide a more integrated approach to strategic planning and institutional effectiveness. HelioCampus is backed by professionals passionate about the impact of innovation on the mission of higher education.

What We Do:
HelioCampus helps colleges and universities measure and evaluate their effectiveness in fulfilling their mission by connecting investments with financial operational and student learning outcomes. We help our partners see the pathway to institutional sustainability.

How We Do It:
HelioCampus turns institutional data into a highly effective asset by combining powerful technology platforms with best practices from the field. Our solutions present data in ways that allow higher ed stakeholders to take informed actions and mitigate risk. We couple unmatched institutional expertise with proven data models insightful workflows and innovative software.

How Youll Help:
We are seeking an experienced project manager to lead datadriven implementation projects for our higher education clients. You will be responsible for managing projects from inception to completion working closely with clients to identify their needs and provide innovative solutions to help them achieve their data analytics goals. The successful candidate will have a strong background in IT project management data analytics and higher education with a proven track record of managing complex data projects within the higher education sector.

What You Will Do:

• Project Team Engagement: Serve as the primary point of contact for the institution project manager/coordinator. Responsible for creating a trusting client relationship by establishing project priorities resource needs availability and timelines. Responsible for establishing weekly checkins with internal and external team members to meet deadlines.
• Project Management: Manage endtoend project delivery including project planning scoping scheduling and management of project resources. Manage project teams and ensure that team members are clear on their roles and responsibilities.
• Communication: Communicate project progress and status to stakeholders including clients project sponsors and executive management.Identify and mitigate project risks and escalate issues as necessary. Manage project communication/decisions between client and internal project team.
• Documentation: Provide overall project management for the relevant HelioCampus platform implementation including (but not limited to) the development and maintenance of a project plan meeting notes status report issue log and other project artifacts. Properly save and archive client documents delivered to the project team for successful implementation.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that projects are delivered on time within budget and meet quality standards. Ensure that project deliverables meet client expectations and are of high quality.
• Training: Provide assistance to client stakeholders during Go Live and ensure seamless handoff to their ongoing services team once implementation is complete. This may include but not be limited to preparing platform rollout and training presentations helping to train endusers on relevant HelioCampus platform features and other launch activities.
• Travel: Travel to client/partner institution sites as needed (no more than 10%).

You Will Be a Good Fit For This Role If You Have:

• Bachelors degree from an accredited institution of higher learning
• 3 years of relevant project management experience
• Strong communication planning and organizational skills
• Experience working with higher education clients with a deep understanding of the higher education landscape and data needs.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical information to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and manage project teams.

Nice To Haves Include:

• Previous experience in technology implementation/consulting and/or higher education
• Prior experience with:
  • Data analysis and analytics technologies (data warehousing data visualization tools SQL Excel)
  • Team collaboration and project management tools such as Confluence JIRA Smartsheet Trello
  • Similar SaaS products
• Prior experience working with higher education technology systems (Workday Colleague Banner Peoplesoft etc.) is a plus
• Project management certification (PMP CAPM ITIL 4 Foundations or equivalent) is highly desirable.
• Experience working in Agile development environments is a plus.

Location:

HelioCampus has three locations Bethesda MD Chapel Hill NC and Philadelphia PA. This specific role is primarily remote with occasional travel to an office or client site. Candidates who can travel to Bethesda MD or Chapel Hill in under 4 hours are preferred. Eastern time zone business hours are required.

Compensation and Benefits:
HelioCampus offers employees a competitive salary along with paid time off healthcare vision dental 401(k) w/ company match remote work flexibility and a fun collaborative work environment.

What We Believe:
HelioCampus is an equal opportunity employer all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or veteran status.