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- PROJECT MANAGER (PMO)
-As a fast paced, rapidly growing organization serving the evolving online higher education market, edX maximizes its talents and resources. To help make the most of this unapologetically intelligent and dedicated team, we seek a project manager to increase the accuracy of our resource and schedule estimates and our stakeholder satisfaction.
-Responsibilities:
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- Coordinate multiple projects to bring Courses, Software Product and Marketing initiatives to market, all of which are related, which have both dedicated and shared resources. -
- Provide, at a moment’s notice, the state of development, so that priorities can be enforced or reset, so that future expectations can be set accurately. -
- Develop lean processes that supports a wide variety of efforts which draw on a shared resource pool. -
- Develop metrics on resource use that support the leadership team in optimizing how they respond to unexpected challenges and new opportunities. -
- Accurately and clearly escalate only those issues which need escalation for productive resolution. Assist in establishing consensus for all other issues. -
- Advise the team on best practices, whether developed internally or as industry standards. -
- Recommend to the leadership team how to re-deploy key resources to better match stated priorities. -
- Help the organization deliver on its commitments with more consistency and efficiency. Allow the organization to respond to new opportunities with more certainty in its ability to forecast resource needs. -
- Select and maintain project management tools for Scrum and Kanban that can serve as the standard for those we use with our partners. -
- Forecast future resource needs given the strategic direction of the organization. -
Skills:
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- Bachelor’s degree or higher. But we're all about education, so let us know how you gained what you need to succeed in this role: projects after completing 6.00x or CS50x, Xbox cheevos, on-line guilds led, large scale innovations championed. -
- Exquisite communication skills, especially listening -
- Inexhaustible attention to detail with the ability to let go of perfection -
- Deep commitment to Lean project management, including a dedication to its best intentions not just its rituals -
- Sense of humor and humility -
- Ability to hold on to the important in the face of the urgent -
If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jobs@edx.org.
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