Senior Project Manager

Below you will find the details for the position including any supplementary documentation and questions you should review before applying for the opening.

Claremont, CA

Pitzer College has mandated the COVID-19 vaccination for all employees.  New employees are required to show proof of full vaccination, including booster, against COVID-19 or request a Pitzer College approved medical or religious exemption on or before their first day of employment.

The Senior Project Manager for Data, Systems, and Integrations provides institution-wide leadership for enterprise data, systems coordination, integrations, project governance, and process improvement. The senior project manager establishes standards, accountability structures, and governance practices that ensure technology and data initiatives are aligned with institutional priorities, regulatory obligations, and the student experience. This role partners with senior leadership, functional owners, data stewards, technical teams, and vendors to prioritize projects, clarify decision rights, resolve barriers, manage risk, and ensure successful adoption of system and process changes across the College.

• Meet with senior leadership to help guide and prioritize DSI projects and resourcing.
• Provide project management by coordinating timelines, tracking progress, and ensuring stakeholders remain informed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establishes standards for system ownership, data stewardship, process documentation, and operational readiness before implementation.
• Define project scope, decision rights, milestones, dependencies, risk levels, and accountability structures in partnership with functional owners.
• Ensure each project has identified sponsors, business owners, data owners, technical owners, deadlines, and success measures.
• Hold project participants accountable for deliverables, decisions, testing, documentation, and timely communication.
• Identify stalled, under-resourced, duplicative, or misaligned projects and recommend corrective action to the VP and senior leadership.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews to ensure plan objectives are met, evaluating successes, identifying areas for improvement, and recommending additional process enhancements.
• Collaborate with functional users and technical teams to identify challenges, develop solutions, and communicate system updates in ways that are accessible and actionable for the campus community.
   

• Lead change management planning for system, data, and process changes that affect campus operations.
• Develop communication, training, adoption, and transition plans to support successful implementation.
• Ensure functional users understand new processes, deadlines, responsibilities, and consequences of non-adoption.
• Partner with departments to identify workflow impacts and ensure operational readiness before launch.
   

• Guide the Data Management & Integrity Committee in partnership with all data stewards to develop intentional and comprehensive policies and practices for using and leveraging institutional data as the co-chair.
• Operationalize the institutional standards for data definitions, data quality, system documentation, access protocols, reporting logic, and data stewardship.
• Coordinate with data stewards to resolve conflicting definitions, inconsistent business practices, and data quality issues.
• Serve in the Enrollment management working group as the DSI co-chair to support Strategic enrollment management initiatives.
• Oversee the maintenance of institutional data dictionary and data democratization for the institution in partnership with all data stewards.
• Foster a data-informed decision-making culture across campus through collaboration, communication, and effective use of reporting and system solutions.
   

• In partnership with the VP, set the annual goals for DSI.
• Partner with Information Technology and Finance to ensure maximum utilization of software inventory, coordination between systems, and deduplication of efforts.
• Vendor review and management oversight for supported applications.

The individual must possess knowledge, skills and ability to be able to successfully perform the essential functions of the position, or be able to explain or demonstrate how the essential functions will be performed, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of skills and abilities.

• A growth mindset.
• A passion for people and values them over processes and tools.
• A collaborator with a focus on providing solutions based on the requirements and necessary outcomes of those whom we serve.
• The aptitude for responding to change over following a set plan.
• Ability to gather user requirements and help develop solutions.
• Ability to instruct others, both individually and in a group setting.
• Ability to interact productively and collaboratively with a diverse campus population.
• Ability to prioritize, plan work activities to use time efficiently while satisfying deadlines and expectations.
• Provide high-quality customer service.
• Speak and write English clearly and persuasively with attention to detail and the needs of the target audience. 

Education/ Experience: Must have a bachelor’s degree. Must have at least three years of related experience. Preference given to candidates who have work experience in higher education institutions and experience with the Microsoft suite, specifically Power BI.

Supervisory Responsibility: Yes

• Staff

Licenses/Certifications:  None required. PMP Preferred.

Work Schedule: This is a regular, exempt, full-time, staff position working 12 months per year. The position hours are 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday.  These hours may vary due to needs of the College or department.

Compensation: Budgeted Salary Range: $110,000-$120,000 per year.

Pitzer College is committed to providing comprehensive benefits to eligible employees and their eligible dependents. Our benefits package includes competitive compensation, health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement savings plans, generous paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, bereavement, etc.), tuition reimbursement, tuition exchange program participation and more. 

Work Model: Hybrid

• *Must have access to reliable and secure computer and internet connection.
• *Must have access to a dedicated and suitable workstation at remote location, including desk or table and supporting, upright chair. Must ensure workstation is safe and free from hazards and ergonomically appropriate.

Physical Requirements: This is generally a sedentary position.  Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time and operate a computer for prolonged periods of time. 

Yes-NDA

Yes AB1825

Yes CSA Reporter

Yes Mandatory Reporter

Yes FERPA

Yes Responsible Employee

Instructions: Only qualified applicants please.

Application Materials: Upload the following materials to complete your application:

• Cover Letter: Indicate your reason for interest in this position, describe how your qualifications make youan ideal candidate, and explain which of Pitzer’s core values best relates to your own.
• Resume: List relevant qualifications and dates of experience.
• Professional References: References will be contacted for select applicants and advance notice will be provided. Provide the names of at least three (3) individuals who can speak to your professional qualifications. Include their business titles, contact information and an indication of how you are acquainted with them (e.g., former supervisor, coworker, etc.).

Pitzer College adheres to both the letter and the spirit of Equal Employment opportunity and Affirmative Action. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, disability, medical condition, or veteran status, in the administration of its admission policies, educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletic and other College-administered programs, and employment policies. Pitzer strongly encourages candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. 

• Campus Security Authority Reporter (CSA): Employees responsible for reporting crimes that are disclosed to them, so that crime statistics reporting is as accurate as possible.
• Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act Reporter (FERPA): Employees with access to student records and information must adhere to the privacy protection requirements under FERPA, which restricts what student information may be disclosed and to whom.
• Mandatory Reporter: Employees who have frequent contact with children are required to report all known or suspected cases of child abuse or neglect.
• Responsible Employee: Any employee who has the authority to take action to redress sexual violence, who has been given the duty of reporting incidents of sexual violence or any other misconduct by students to the Title IX Coordinator or other appropriate School designee; or whom a student could reasonably believe has this authority or duty.