Job Overview:

The Senior Program Manager in this role will serve as the Operations lead for a statewide assessment program, specifically overseeing the design of new, or annual updates to, various program publications, the program website, and program training materials. The Senior Program Manager will coordinate with cross functional teams to manage schedules and mitigate risks, ensuring adherence to contract specifications, change management protocols, and budgets.

Location: Remote, USA

Job Responsibilities:

• Leads activities associated with the development of new or annual updates to manuals, publications, and other district-facing deliverables.
• Collaborates closely with the Operations Director to analyze schedule and scope to adequately allocate resources.
• Works with state education department lead to set annual goals and deliverable timelines.
• Works with cross-team/cross-organization resources to ensure accuracy of information.
• Assign tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members depending on the complexity of the task and skillset of staff; manages the work of subcontractors or other vendors as appropriate.
• Conduct post-implementation meetings to identify and document successful and unsuccessful project elements; ensure the application of lessons learned and shared best practices.
• Responsible for reviewing and maintaining quality standards; ensures established processes are followed, and all outcomes are properly documented; may review current systems and processes for possible improvements and implement process changes as appropriate, including writing policies and/or procedures and training.
• Conduct regular internal and external project meetings; develop and deliver progress reports.
• Participates in proposal development activities.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required;
• 6+ years of relevant experience in program management or a related role is required.
• Experience working directly with senior-level clients, government stakeholders, and educators required.
• Understanding of document accessibility and compliance requirements is preferred.
• Experience working in large-scale assessments desired.
• Editorial experience desired.
• Experience with a learning management system (LMS), and development of training modules desired.
• PMP, SCRUM or other certification preferred.

Why Work With Us?

When you work with Cambium Assessment, you’ll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.

Our ground breaking work includes:

• Advanced computer-adaptive algorithms

• Mobile support of user interfaces

• Learning management systems with social media features

• Universally accessible user interfaces

• Machine scorable items

In the 2021–2022 school year, we delivered more than 100 million online tests, successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.3 million simultaneous test takers, while ensuring an average response time of less than a tenth of a second. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students. To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumassessment.com

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.