[Remote] Content Project Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Magic EdTech is seeking a Project Manager to manage a large-scale high school assessment development project across multiple courses, review cycles, and delivery milestones. The role coordinates cross-functional teams and stakeholders, manages project schedules, scope, budget, risks, documentation, reviews, QA, and technical deliverables to ensure timely and high-quality completion.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the project plan, schedule, milestones, dependencies, staffing needs, and delivery dates
- Track customer requirements, project deliverables, and progress across the assessment development lifecycle
- Coordinate work across SMEs, reviewers, QA, assessment operations, technical teams, vendors, and client stakeholders
- Maintain project trackers, dashboards, RAID logs, decision logs, and other key project documentation
- Monitor scope, schedule, budget, staffing, risks, and dependencies, and escalate issues or delays as needed
- Identify and track project risks and support mitigation and corrective actions
- Manage project changes, including documenting impacts to scope, schedule, cost, and resources
- Coordinate client questions, approvals, dependencies, and required inputs
- Manage teacher-review activities, including review batches, feedback, revisions, and approvals
- Coordinate with QA and technical/platform teams on item entry, metadata, scoring configuration, form development, and related activities
- Lead internal project meetings and support client status meetings, communicating progress, risks, issues, and upcoming priorities
- Review deliverables to ensure they meet established requirements and quality standards
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of project management experience, preferably in education, assessment, publishing, edtech, or content development
- Experience managing cross-functional and distributed teams with multiple concurrent workstreams
- Strong proficiency in Smartsheet and Excel
- Experience managing project plans, schedules, RAID logs, dashboards, risks, and status reporting
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, prioritization, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently and manage changing priorities
- Experience with assessment development, educational content workflows, or assessment platforms strongly preferred
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