Program & Portfolio Manager

Overview
Georgia 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:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. 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.

The Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (SCoRE) engages faculty, students, and staff in long-term, strategic research and education collaborations with community partners, focusing primarily on sustainability in the Atlanta region, the state of Georgia, and the Southeast. We have four primary areas of work: Community-engaged Sustainability Research, Community-engaged Sustainability Education, Strategic Community Partnerships, and Thought Leadership.

We are a deeply collaborative, small but mighty center and are passionate about centering community engagement in the Institutes sustainability and climate research and education initiatives. We know that local knowledge and expertise are crucial to building the sustainability and climate innovations of the future. We are committed to jumpstarting and stewarding authentic relationships and collaborations between Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and students and community partners working across the Southeast to create thriving communities that benefit people and planet. We have spent valuable time working to establish a broad, community-centered approach to sustainability as well as principles for collaboration and we are intentional about putting the principles into practice. We believe in process and know that the journey determines the outcomes.

SCoRE is housed in the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) under the Vice President of Interdisciplinary Research (VPIR). SCoRE works closely with the growing community-engaged ecosystem at Georgia Tech, which includes, but is not limited to, Office of Community-based Learning; Community Relations; Strategic Energy Institute; Institute for People and Technology; Renewable Bioproducts Institute; Office of Sustainability; Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Partnership for Inclusive Innovation; and Enterprise Innovation Institute. Learn more about SCoRE on our website: https://scre.research.gatech.edu/.

Manage enterprise level programs and portfolios through administrative support, data analysis, tracking and reporting. Oversee and support project execution through continual coordination of program/portfolio plans, data analysis, reporting and education. This position will interact on a regular basis with: faculty, staff, and vendors. This position typically will advise and counsel: faculty, staff and vendors. This position will supervise: NA.

Job Duty 1 -
Manage all aspects of assigned programs throughout project life-cycle to ensure completion within the defined scope, quality, and time and cost constraints

Job Duty 2 -
Compile and respond to data requests to facilitate the development of recommendations to address/resolve potential and existing Institute and unit-level challenges

Job Duty 3 -
Develop data analysis, financial modeling, and bench-marking for project requests and initiatives

Job Duty 4 -
Design, develop and maintain tools and processes for portfolio management and enterprise-level tracking

Job Duty 5 -
Assist in creation and delivery of materials for project/program management education and mentoring

Job Duty 6 -
Perform other duties as assigned

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Statistics, Data Science or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Experience
Five to seven years of job related experience

Additional Preferred Qualifications

Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), or Portfolio Management Profession (PfMP) Certification; Sustainability related experience; experience with academic program management.

Experience in coordinating collaborative projects and initiatives, preferably with community partners

SKILLS
Ability to communicate effectively; organizational and facilitation skills. Ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, internal and external to Georgia Tech, with a special focus on community partners; organizational and facilitation skills.

Ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, internal and external to Georgia Tech, with a special focus on community partners; organizational and facilitation skills.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The 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 complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

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. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

More information on these policies can be found here: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening

Salary Grade: A9

Salary Range: $72,783.00 to $98,986.00

Location: Atlanta, GA