Project Manager, Project & Program Management, Operations Management

The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) is seeking an experienced, proactive Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex print and digital educational publishing projects. Your knowledge, skills, and expertise help you lead cross‑functional teams through the end-to-end publishing process. In this role, you will manage multiple concurrent product development initiatives, ensuring products are delivered on schedule, within budget, and to NCCER’s quality standards.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional planner who enjoys bringing order to complex projects. They excel at building realistic schedules, anticipating risks before they become issues, balancing competing priorities, and keeping cross‑functional teams aligned through clear communication and thoughtful leadership.

This position requires experience managing educational publishing projects involving interdependencies, multiple stakeholders, external vendors, and evolving product requirements. Success in this role depends on the ability to proactively manage timelines, optimize workflows, facilitate collaboration, and communicate effectively with technical experts, leadership, and publishing partners.

NCCER is looking for a committed, smart, tech‑savvy project manager with experience managing print and digital educational materials for high school and adult learners. As an NCCER Project Manager, your skills will help us deliver materials used around the world to train construction craft professionals at high schools, vocational schools, colleges, and construction training centers.

Lead the planning and execution of multiple simultaneous publishing projects from concept through product launch.

• Develop, own, and manage project documentation, resource planning, status reports, and dashboards using Smartsheet, Excel, Confluence, and other project management tools.
• Build and maintain integrated project schedules that accurately reflect cross‑functional dependencies, resource availability, and critical path milestones.
• Continuously monitor project progress, adjusting schedules proactively, and problem‑solving to resolve issues and keep projects on track.
• Identify project risks, assess impacts, develop mitigation strategies, and communicate recommendations to leadership before schedule or budget impacts occur.
• Facilitate project kickoff meetings, draft launch memos, and establish clear expectations for scope, timelines, deliverables, and responsibilities.
• Drive projects to successful completion by maintaining schedule integrity, scope control, budget awareness, and quality expectations.
• Act as a liaison with subject matter expert (SME) committees, freelancers, vendors, and the cross‑functional in‑house team to facilitate project success.
• Maintain project components and product roadmap between revision cycles.

Serve as the central point of coordination across internal teams and external partners.

• Drive project progress among technical writing, editorial, production, design, art, permissions, testing, digital development, marketing, and product leadership.
• Ensure handovers are clean, well‑organized, and communicated clearly across departments and to stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships with subject matter experts (SMEs), committees, freelancers, vendors, and publishing partners.
• Lead recurring project status meetings that drive accountability, remove roadblocks, and maintain project momentum.
• Facilitate timely decision‑making by identifying issues, presenting options, and escalating decisions when appropriate.
• Support successful product launches by collaborating with Marketing, Workforce Development, Customer Service, and Sales.
• Prepare concise project health reports, executive summaries, and milestone updates for leadership.

Manage the complete publishing lifecycle for assigned products.

• Prepare and maintain digital content mapping documentation.
• Perform QA of platform builds as needed.
• Facilitate and manage file handoffs across internal teams, our publishing partner, and external vendors.
• Support…