Senior Specialist, Project Management Support (Junior Project Manager)

Type of Vacancy: Salaried, full-timeStart date: February-March 2024Location: Remote/home office anywhere in the continental United StatesReport to: Manager, Project Management Support or designeeSupervises: NoneCompensation: The full salary range for this position is $65,500 to $99,075 annually. There are two types of experience being considered for this role: Experience that is directly relevant to the role and Total Working Experience, in all fields. This includes: internships and consulting work. In collaboration with the hiring manager, the People and Culture team calculates experience based on the candidate’s most current resume. When calculating the offer, consideration is given to candidates that possess additional qualifications (i.e., desired qualifications). Teaching Lab will generally cap salaries for new employees at 105% of the midpoint to allow for continued growth in the role over time.
Teaching Lab is an equal-opportunity employer committed to reflecting the diversity of the students we serve. We pursue equity as both a means and an end and enthusiastically welcome candidates of all backgrounds to apply for this role.
WHO WE ARETeaching Lab is a nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning to achieve educational equity. We envision a world where teachers and students thrive together in communities that enable life-long learning and meaningful lives. In partnership with teachers, we transform professional learning from the ground up to dramatically improve student outcomes. We also work with school, district, and state leaders to create the instructional systems necessary to support these changes. To learn more about Teaching Lab, explore our website at www.teachinglab.org.
SUMMARY OF POSITIONThe Senior Specialist, Project Management Support (Junior Project Manager) provides technical project management support for complex projects aligned with organizational strategic goals while supporting team members’ capacity for effective project management utilizing best practices.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• The Senior Specialist, Project Management Support (Junior Project Manager) will hold responsibilities in the following functional areas:


• Programmatic Project Management Support and Implementation
• Collaborate with team members to create templates for project planning and project management using monday.com
• Create, track and monitor project plans, logistics boards, and budgets for identified large-scale partnership projects in collaboration with Project Lead and Client Partnership Manager
• Review and provide feedback to Project Lead and Client Partnership Manager on project plans on a regular basis for identified small-scale partnership projects
• Communicate with team members and stakeholders on the status of projects 
• Build the buy-in for and mindset toward project planning and project management as key to launching and executing timely and high-quality projects
• Hold shared responsibility for excellent projects that are responsive to partner needs by ensuring effective use of project planning and management tools and processes


• Cross-functional Collaboration 
• Collaborate with all Project Leads to identify project planning and project management needs
• In collaboration with other members of the Project Management Support team, create and implement opportunities to build project planning and project management capacity for all team members
• Seek and respond to feedback from team members and adjust strategies and operations accordingly
• Engage in additional work as needed to meet organizational business needs and priorities


• Engage in Continuous Learning
• Stay abreast of key research and guidance in the field, attend learning experiences to build skills and competencies
• Engage in personal and organized learning opportunities as a team member at an organization that aspires to be anti-racist and champions racial equity
• Stay abreast of key research and guidance in the field, attend learning experiences to build skills and competencies in project planning and project management


• Perform other duties as assigned by the Senior Director, Learning & Research and/or Executive Team.

KEY SUCCESS INDICATORS (KSI)

• The Senior Specialist, Project Management Support (Junior Project Manager) is accountable for achieving goals set in collaboration with their manager, aligned with FY24 goals, and especially, Key Success Indicators (KSI) like: 


• Operate efficiently and equitably: Develop and refine internal operational structures and systems to allow all team members and contra