Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cambium Assessment is looking for Program Managers to oversee state testing projects. The role involves managing complex assessment programs, ensuring quality control, and maintaining strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Managing all aspects of complex, large-scale assessment programs in a high security environment often with high stakes attached
- Managing the transition of large-scale paper and pencil testing programs to an online, computer-adaptive format while working closely with senior-level clients at the State Department of Education
- Developing and implementing processes, procedures, and schedules for meeting project deliverables and client needs
- Working with state clients to ensure that all plans and schedules are viable, that the state understands their roles and deadlines, and that clear lines of communication are established
- Chairing and facilitating high-level client and sub-contractor meetings with multiple participants and guiding discussions among multiple stakeholders to reach concrete decisions
- Developing a master schedule that reflects client needs and team’s work requirements
- Monitoring schedule, deadlines and deliveries to ensure project commitments are executed on time
- Communicating schedule and any changes to project staff
- Working directly with senior level clients to provide solutions to day-to-day operational issues
- Ensuring scope changes are reflected in contracts, budgets, activities, and schedules
- Communicating scope and budget changes to team members
- Managing team leads for item development, technical, reporting, website, software and operations and making sure that each team receives required guidance
- Keeping AIR senior management informed of any potential risks, potential missed deadlines or budget over-runs
- Managing subcontractors
- Monitoring budgets
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required
- Minimum of 5 years of progressively increasing responsibility managing tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working directly with senior-level clients
- Must have experience working in large-scale assessment
- M.B.A., M.A. in relevant field, or the equivalent preferred
- PMP certification preferred
- Experience working with on-line, secure delivery systems a plus
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