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Student Project Manager recruiting industry Project Leaders and managing online capstone projects. Supporting students and university clients through PeopleGrove’s career-readiness platform.
Responsibilities:
- Identify, recruit, and engage qualified industry Project Leaders to sponsor and lead student capstone projects
- Develop and maintain a year-round pipeline of prospective Project Leaders
- Conduct outreach and presentations to prospective Project Leaders
- Manage recruitment from initial contact through project onboarding
- Maintain records of outreach activity, pipeline status, and recruitment outcomes
- Co-create appropriately scoped student capstone project briefs with Project Leaders
- Guide Project Leaders in designing deliverables and milestones
- Provide ongoing support, coaching, check-ins, troubleshooting, and facilitation throughout project lifecycles
- Develop onboarding resources and templates
- Own timelines, milestones, and risk tracking across active student projects
- Onboard and train Project Leaders on project-management software and platforms
- Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support
- Identify and escalate recurring platform or process issues
- Serve as primary operational contact for the university client
- Provide updates on project status, recruitment progress, and program health
- Communicate challenges, escalations, and resolutions
- Prepare and deliver progress reports and summaries covering outcomes and engagement metrics
- Contribute to client discussions about program growth, process improvements, and success benchmarks
- Support students with capstone project, platform, and program-logistics questions
- Foster a supportive environment in a faculty-independent academic model
- Escalate academic or programmatic concerns according to institutional policies
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in a role combining outreach, sales, recruitment, or business development with project or program management
- Demonstrated success in a client-facing role, with ability to build trust and manage expectations across diverse stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple active projects and relationships simultaneously
- Experience supporting or working within online, competency-based, or non-traditional educational environments strongly preferred
- Comfort and proficiency with digital collaboration and project management tools; ability to learn and train others on new software quickly
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, adaptable for industry professionals, students, and institutional clients
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and maintain consistent progress toward defined goals
- Bachelor’s degree; relevant experience may substitute
Benefits:
- Full Time (Remote)
- Fully online, asynchronous work setting
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