Project Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager, Operations Manager

Job Description

Title: Project Manager

Department: Education Youth Experiencing Childhood Homelessness (EYECH)

Salary Range: $71,717 - $92,980

For forward-thinking administrators and educators, opportunities abound in the School District of Philadelphia. The School District of Philadelphia is committed to transforming the education opportunities it offers the city's 200,000 school-aged children. The District seeks leaders who have a passion for working with schools, principals and communities who are committed to ensuring all students achieve. Serving a population as diverse as ours requires creativity, commitment and vision.

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Job Summary

The role of the Project Manager is to help implement the District's overall strategic management goal: creating an aligned organization capable of supporting a high-performing system of schools.

The work of the Project Manager will touch on all of the core components of strategic management: determining organizational goals; prioritizing and pursuing the highest impact strategies to achieve those goals; tracking progress against targets; strategic problem-solving; coordinating across functional areas; evaluating and adjusting strategies based on data; holding the organization and team members accountable for progress toward collective goals; and identifying and celebrating individual and team contributions to overall efforts.

A successful Project Manager will enjoy working at a fast pace; serving in leader, facilitator, and team member roles; developing innovative, evidence-based strategies and solutions to operational barriers; resolving policy barriers; and institutionalizing change.

Essential Functions

All Specialties

• Drives incorporation of performance management approaches - and performance culture - in key interactions across the organization.

• Establishes routines and facilitates regular project meetings among various District staff involved in implementing and evaluating Action Plan initiatives or project components, or System of Great Schools process for purposes of progress monitoring, program review, and program improvement.

• Provides problem-solving support to initiative managers and helps ensure that input and feedback from colleagues across the organization is solicited and incorporated.

• Supports initiative managers to identify risks, strategize solutions, and develop plans to address identified issues in order to maintain initiative/project momentum.

Additional Functions for the Student Support Services Specialty

• Collaborates with managers of priority Action Plan initiatives to define performance goals, set targets, and develop project timelines and milestones to help reach performance goals.

• Helps drive annual "system of great schools" process, including data analysis, recommendation development, decision-making, and communication; supports underlying quantitative and qualitative data analysis; develops annual recommendations for high-stakes school actions.

Supports the District's policy review, revision, and adoption process to ensure compliance and consistency across policies and practice.

Establishes routines and facilitates regular project meetings among various District staff involved in implementing and evaluating Action Plan initiatives or project components, for purposes of progress monitoring, program review, and program improvement.

Provides problem-solving support to initiative managers and helps to ensure that input and feedback from colleagues across the organization are solicited and incorporated.

• Creates presentation materials and talking points for internal and external audiences and diverse stakeholder groups.

• Researches education policy issues and strategic management practices and assists in disseminating information to the District's Student Support Services team.

• Supports and helps lead implementation of high-priority special projects including, but not limited to, various District's strategic partnerships with public, private, and social sector organizations.

• Serves as a liaison between the Office of Student Support Services and other District offices to build collaborative relationships across functional…