Pay Range: $40/hr. The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits:

• Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA.
• 401(k).
• Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws.

Profile: Seeking a project manager with NSF Grants experience that will organize and administer the grant business process in terms of documentation, keeping proper folders, materials, financials and ensuring PII’s complete the documentation in a timely manner. Must have a keen understanding of all the ins/outs of following NSF grant protocol from an administrative basis. Will need solid communication skills, both written and verbal, as this roll coordinates meetings with an 8-person committee along with internal stakeholders (will have support of a Sr. Director, also).

About the Opportunity:

• We are seeking a dynamic and organized Project Manager to work with the Program Manager, Instructional Services to manage the planning, execution, and reporting of the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to expand the AP Project Based Learning (PBL) Series to Computer Science A.
• The ideal candidate will have a passion for education, keen attention to detail, strong project management skills, and the ability to collaborate and coordinate effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders cross-functionally.

In this role you will:

• Coordinate instructional services schedules and timelines including development, pre-production, production, and post-production for the AP PBL Series for CSA in accordance with the NSF grant.
• Verify all internal and external team members remain informed of incremental milestones and project deadlines, predicting and preventing roadblocks as they arise.
• Maintain detailed documentation of project status and review processes, oversee and communicate revisions and updates to Instructional Services team leaders.
• Propose workflows that satisfy the constraints of timelines, scope, and deadlines for each project, developing repeatable templates that can be used to scale up production.
• Provide workflow support (reaching out to IT when committee members cannot access the OneDrive) to the instructional services team to deliver on project milestones.
• Lead quality control checks of content and implement fixes for editing and design errors.
• Manage communications for committee members when coordinating and receiving questions about contracts, travel, meetings, etc. Engage in ongoing support and needs that arise for the team.
• Collaborate continuously with project leads to refine processes that will create less friction and fewer errors in Instructional Services delivered to teachers and students.
• Coordinate with the AP Program Access Product Management team to ensure alignment of Professional Learning system testing and development timelines.
• Manage sensitivity reviews in collaboration with Global Policy and External Relations (GPER) across team.
• Work with internal Client teams and external vendor to ensure compliance with NSF grant requirement.

Must have:

• Bachelor’s degree (certification in Project Management like PMP preferred).
• 4-5 years’ experience in project management, preferably in an educational setting
• 2-4 years’ experience in NSF (National Science Foundation) grant processes
• Understanding of adult learning principles and educational practices a plus.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
• Proficiency in project management tools and software – Smartsheet, Trello, Jira a plus