Workday Student Project Manager

Endicott College is seeking a Workday Student Project Manager who will work as part of a project leadership team with the CIO, staff Project Managers, consulting Project Managers, internal leads and the Endicotts implementation partner.

Since 2010, the Chronicle of Higher Education has consistently named Endicott College as a Great College to Work For. Endicott College is a Baccalaureate, Master and Doctoral degree granting institution located on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Endicott is a welcoming community with engaged staff, faculty and students, a beautiful campus, and great employee benefits.

Endicott College began transitioning to cloud based Workday technology as part of an overall digital transformation in support of the colleges mission in April 2022. The project to implement Human Capital Management, Payroll and Financial Management is underway. In the spring of 2023, Endicott will begin the Student Information System (SIS) implementation.

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, the Workday Project Manager will be responsible for several Workday Student workstreams such as Change Management, Curriculum & Academic Advising, Academic Foundation & Core, Financial Aid, Financials, Records, Recruiting & Admissions, Data Conversion, Integrations, Reporting and Security.

This full-time position includes medical, dental, retirement and tuition benefits for you and your family. Endicott is located 20 miles north of Boston and accessible by public transportation. The parking is free and the beautiful beaches are close by. Come join us - apply today!

Responsibilities include:

• Successfully provide project management for multiple project workstreams. Foster on time delivery.
• Lead the on-time completion of deliverables for all assigned workstreams.
• Develop and track the plan for assigned workstreams with monthly and weekly levels of detail. Coordinate assigned areas of the plan with other Project Managers.
• Build relationships with project leadership, Partner consultants, the functional staff for assigned workstreams, key stakeholders and Information Technology staff.
• Identify and manage risks, actions, issues and decisions and track them in the RAID log.
• Escalate issues and risks to the Project Director. Provide possible solutions.
• Stay in regular contact with the Partner leadership including the Partner Project Manager and Leads. Work with Partner leadership to identify and resolve issues and mitigate risks.
• Lead change control activities for assigned workstreams. Partner with the Project Director to review and make recommendations for change orders.
• Ensure that all project documentation for assigned workstreams is housed in designated locations, is named according to naming conventions and that permissions are established based on a need to know basis.
• Support Change Management activities and be a part of successfully preparing the Endicott community to adopt Workday Student
• Ensure that recommended training and support plans are completed on time.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Experience leading technical and cross-functional projects with a minimum of five years of project management experience.
• Experience managing an ERP implementation.
• Experience with project management tools.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Background in technology is preferred
• Experience working in a Higher Education environment is preferred.
• Experience implementing Workday Platform or Workday Student Information System is preferred.

Endicott College celebrates diversity and strives to bring a mix of talented people representing a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skillstogether to do their best work. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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