Project Manager - Math

Great Minds®, a rapidly growing challenger brand in the PK–12 instructional materials space, seeks an experienced Project Manager to support its popular Eureka Math® curriculum.

Company Profile

Great Minds brings teachers and scholars together to craft exemplary instructional materials that inspire joy in teaching and learning. Our curricula, Wit & Wisdom®; Geodes; Eureka Math™; and PhD Science™ all support teachers as they take students beyond rote learning to provide a deeper, more complete understanding of the humanities, mathematics, and sciences. Founded in 2007, Great Minds now employs more than 1100 people.

For additional information please visit: www.greatminds.org

Our Market Position

Great Minds’ Eureka Math™ is the most widely used curriculum in the history of American education. It enjoys an unrivaled 40+ Net Promoter Score™. Eureka Math™ and its sister products, Wit & Wisdom® and PhD Science™, embrace much higher expectations for all students and all teachers. In a market dominated by scripted, procedural materials that drive expectations down, Great Minds produces curricula that celebrate knowledge, respect the craft of teaching, and acknowledge the true capabilities of students.

About The Position
Great Minds seeks a Project Manager to work closely with colleagues across multiple internal teams to plan, schedule, and support ongoing projects for the Eureka Math curriculum and implementation success teams.

Responsibilities 

The Project Manager will lead the project team through each phase of the project lifecycle.

• Initiation:
  • Collaborate with stakeholders from multiple teams to define project scope and requirements through an iterative process
  • Develop and obtain sign-off on the Project Charter to establish a baseline understanding of the work all teams agree to complete for the project
• Planning:
  • Work closely with Eureka Math content leads and product manager, as well as any stakeholders in other departments, to create the workflow
  • Translate project workflow into tasks and milestones to create the project schedule
  • Create a detailed project management plan to include a communication plan, a risk/issue log, a decision log, a staffing plan, and other project documents as required
  • Obtain sign-off on all project documents
  • Ensure that all team members have the required information and resources to carry out their tasks effectively
  • Collaborate with Great Minds’ legal team to secure vendors
  • Plan and host project kick-off meeting for all stakeholders and Great Minds leaders
• Execute, Monitor, and Control:
  • Lead project meetings to ensure team is on track and to troubleshoot obstacles
  • Document, manage, and escalate risks and issues
  • Track and document vendor deliverables and quality, escalating issues as necessary
  • Update all project documents and vendor contracts as needed throughout the project
  • Submit deliverables and ensure they adhere to quality standards and project requirements
• Closing
  • Measures project performance using both qualitative and quantitative data
  • Lead a lesson learned meeting for the project team
  • Document project successes and areas of improvement to carry forward to future projects

Additionally, the Project Manager will work collaborate with all members of the Program Management team. Some examples include:

• Lead team meetings to contribute to the team’s professional development
• Share results of project surveys
• Learn new skills that would improve performance as a Project Manager
• Provide ideas for how to improve the team’s current project management practices
  

Requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related major, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years’ experience coordinating cross-departmental projects and/or managing complex schedules
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously without missing critical deadlines
• Anticipate project roadblocks and develop creative solutions both within and across project to meet goals
• Experience with project management principles and, ideally, Smartsheet or similar project management software
• Experience working with curriculum content or in educational publishing
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Strong analytic and interpersonal communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PPT), Micr