Description
Project Administrator ( 12-Month Contract Position)
Note: Candidates may work remotely from any location in the United States.
Responsibilities:

• Support cross-functional Professional Learning Design projects through the project management life cycle.
• Facilitate the work of cross-functional project teams, using best practices and standard processes to enable teams to accomplish project objectives.
• Manage project documentation, communications, meetings, and required meeting follow up.
• Support the creation of timelines and milestones for projects.
• Monitor the progress of projects and identify issues affecting timely and accurate completion.
• Communicate with project stakeholders when required.
• Represent Professional Learning Design team requirements as a stakeholder in cross-functional organizational project or product meetings.
• Learn and participate in developing, maintaining, and evolving standards, tools, templates and documented processes for process improvement and project governance.
• Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the Professional Learning Design team and the organization.

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to organize time effectively, determine priorities, and move work forward efficiently
• Ability to work autonomously and take initiative to work, at times, with little direction
• Ability to build strong working relationships and work with many levels of an organization
• Ability to create usable timelines and milestones to facilitate project progress
• Ability to attend to numerous tasks and projects simultaneously
• Ability to sense the importance or impact of issues and situations and take appropriate actions
• Ability to identify barriers to progress and propose solutions
• Ability to facilitate and control meetings or discussions where disparate points of views need to be voiced and acknowledged
• Ability to work with and communicate effectively with a variety of individuals including team members and other NWEA teams.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), internet, databases
• Strong word processing, proofing and editing skills; ability to pay close attention to detail and quality
• Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation

Key Competencies:

• Communicates effectively
• Ensures accountability
• Instills trust
• Manages ambiguity
• Manages complexity
• Plans and aligns

Experience and Education :

• Bachelor's degree preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
• 2+ years relevant experience, such as:
  • Entry level project admin. or coordination
  • Organization/administrative support

About Us...

NWEA® is a research-based, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators worldwide by creating assessment solutions that precisely measure growth and proficiency-and provide timely data to help tailor instruction. For more than 40 years, NWEA has developed innovative pre-K-12 assessments, including our flagship interim assessment, MAP® Growth™; our progress monitoring and skills mastery tool, MAP® Skills™; and our reading fluency and comprehension assessment, MAP® Reading Fluency™. Educators trust our professional learning offerings to accelerate student learning and our research to support assessment validity and data interpretation. More than 11 million students in 146 countries use our solutions to support their learning and growth each year.

NWEA strives to make diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) practices the center of our work. Our organization's mission, Partnering to Help All Kids Learn, is the foundation for our DEIA commitment as we work to reflect, value, and support the educators, students, colleagues, and communities we serve. We seek to empower and engage all stakeholders in the research, services, solutions, and products we provide, our organizational culture, and the partnerships we establish with schools, districts, states, and countries.

NWEA endeavors to make www.nwea.org accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please call us at (503) 624-1951 or e-mail us at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request, your location and your contact information. This is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

NWEA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. For our EEO Policy Statement, please visit our website. If you'd like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please visit the EEOC website