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Georgia Tech

Program Manager III -(Onsite)

Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30383


About UsGeorgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

Students are our top priority.

We strive for excellence.

We thrive on diversity.

We celebrate collaboration.

We champion innovation.

We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

We act ethically.

We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department InformationOur Mission

The Georgia Institute for Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia has been an engine of Progress and Service for more than 135 years and is ready to play an even greater role going forward. With humility, and yet great confidence in our history and our unique capabilities, Georgia Tech is redefining what it means to be a leading public technological research university in this new era, committed to empowering people of all backgrounds and to integrating our resources across disciplines to create a better future for our community locally, nationally, and globally.

Additional information about Georgia Tech’s commitment to excellence, its strategic plan and recent national rankings and accomplishments can be found at:

https://strategicplan.gatech.edu/vision .

Job SummaryThe Program Manager works with many levels of leadership and staff to manage program efforts based on industry best practices; works as the single point of contact for facilitation and communication of program goals, deliverables, and schedules, and must be an excellent communicator; various levels of documentation will be produced at each stage of the program and the program manager is often the person who creates these with input from others.

This position may supervise: Assigned Staff

Responsibilities

Facilitate the creation of program definitions, work breakdowns, rough order estimates, program plans, communication plans, and program schedules and specifications.

Research solutions to program management issues using the appropriate resources; lead short-term, tactical programs of diverse types.

Promote and follow the objectives, priorities, goals of programs through best practices and industry-standard methodologies.

Interact regularly with program sponsors, stakeholders, program teams, and others to determine their needs and use the existing program methodology to develop plans to address these efficiently.

Facilitate or contribute to team or programmatic meetings to communicate program timelines, milestones, and updates.

May participate in and provide information for the strategic planning process at the unit or department level.

Create program artifacts, agendas, presentations, and meeting minutes for program team; Prepare reports and program documentation.

May provide training, guidance, and direction to other staff, especially as it pertains to the use of tools for effective program management.

Perform other job-related duties assigned.

Required QualificationsEducational RequirementsBachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Required ExperienceTwo or more years of job-related experience.

Preferred QualificationsAdditional Preferred QualificationsPreferred Certifications, Licenses or Permits:

o Project Management Professional - (PMP)o Certified Associate in Project Management - (CAPM)

Preferred Educational QualificationsMaster's Degree.

Proposed SalarySalary Range: $61,759 - $70,000

Knowledge, Skills, & AbilitiesSKILLSThis job requires working knowledge of fundraising processes and protocols; organization, interpersonal, written and oral communications skills; ability to work independently and as team member and multi-tasking abilities. Use of office related computer applications is required.

Equal Employment OpportunityThe Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions.

Background CheckSuccessful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit

http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening

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