Technical Project Manager

Who We Are

The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) is dedicated to solving education's greatest challenges. Through rigorous research, model training programs and partnerships with educators worldwide, we're pursuing equitable, accessible and effective learning for all. The GSE is a top-ranked school of education, known for its prestigious faculty, rigorous graduate degree programs, and its impact on the quality of education across the world.

The GSE is committed to developing leaders in education research, practice and policy. Our community includes over 60 faculty, 400 students, 230 staff, 14,000 alumni and countless individuals from the local and global communities that we work with and impact.

Housed at Stanford Graduate School of Education, the Stanford Accelerator for Learning is the first university-wide initiative connecting scholars across disciplines and with external partners to bridge research, innovation, practice, and policy, and bring quality, scalable, and equitable learning experiences to all learners, throughout the lifespan. The Stanford Accelerator for Learning focuses on learning challenges most in need of new discoveries, evidence, and solutions and where we believe Stanford can make the most difference.

Those include: adult & workforce learning, digital learning, early childhood education and development, equity in learning, learning differences, and policy & systems change.

The Project Management Specialist will work with the Accelerator Studio, an in-house team of specialists, to support a range of early-stage projects with the potential to transform education. This entails support for academic teams launching research-backed innovations – often for the first time – via Stanford Accelerator for Learning programs like seed grants and innovation grants.

The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge and field experience with managing complex projects and solving technical hurdles in an academic atmosphere. The ideal candidate will also possess a strong interest in advancing education and a sense of interdisciplinary possibility across emerging fields like AI, virtual media, learning science, neuroscience, etc.

• Experience in developing technology to enhance learning and research
• Ability to recognize and recommend necessary changes in user and/or operations procedures
• Promote and maintain best practices by designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating appropriate online/offline resources, workshops, seminars, and initiatives
• Familiarity with software engineering principles
• Experience working with multimedia tools (eg, video editing, VR/AR, photography, etc.)
• Ability to advocate for project needs with technology service providers
• Knowledge of learning management systems and various classroom and online learning technologies

Duration:
This position is fixed-term for one year, with opportunity for continuation.

Location:

This position is located in Stanford, CA, with an option for hybrid (partly in-person, partly remote).

PLEASE NOTE:

We are not able to provide sponsorship or relocation for this position.

Successful candidates will be required to complete a background check prior to working at Stanford University.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the US. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

The expected pay range for this position is $108,746 - $153,171 per annum. Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of the salary or hourly wage what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position upon hire. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to)…