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Description

Staff Technical Project Manager

Remote - Bogota, Colombia

*ONLY CVs SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH WILL BE CONSIDERED*

The Opportunity:  

Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.  

We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company. 

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com.

The Staff Technical Project Manager (Staff TPM) will serve as a key member of Anthology’s Engineering Operations (EngOps) team and will have the opportunity to lead and contribute to critical strategic and operational initiatives intended to have broad and systemic impact within the Technology Organization (Tech Org) and across the company. EngOps is a team of technical project managers and knowledge managers working in a cross-functional capacity with a focus on driving alignment, helping find efficiencies, optimizing processes and workflows, and creating scalable and repeatable frameworks to empower teams and enable self-organization.

The Staff TPM will lead and participate in projects, programs, and initiatives associated with, but not limited to, the following:

• Enabling and accelerating maturity in our use of AI tools within the Tech Org
• Facilitating and improving product and technology planning, prioritization, and budgeting processes
• Developing insights and data visualizations to improve visibility and enable strategic and data-informed decision making
• Enhancing company-wide CapEx processes and reporting
• Enabling process and tooling alignment and harmonization within the Tech Org
• Streamlining and automating knowledge and content management in support of critical business processes
• Bringing efficiencies to how we obtain and maintain security certifications (e.g., GovRAMP, FedRAMP, IL4, ISO, SOC, etc.)
• Managing and evolving the Tech Org’s information architecture to enable bidirectional knowledge sharing and communication and enhance collaboration

This position is for someone with enthusiasm for tackling complex challenges, the ability to bridge strategic thinking with technical execution and excellence, a collaborative mindset, and experience working with colleagues at all levels of an organization. This individual will be empowered to identify problems and areas of opportunity and propose solutions and initiatives to help enhance the effectiveness and operations of the Tech Org and broader organization. This position requires someone comfortable managing through change and ambiguity, adapting to emerging guidance and direction, and offering recommendations to help shape Anthology’s project and knowledge management practices. 

The Staff TPM will report to and work under the guidance of the EngOps Director of Technical Project Management. This role may be expected to directly manage or matrix-manage staff.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Understanding complex problems, proposing solutions, and distilling them into actionable projects, programs, and initiatives 
• Independently managing large, cross-functional projects, programs, and initiatives with large/diverse sets of stakeholders
• Communicating effectively with team members and leadership within and outside of the Tech Org
• Prioritizing and driving project, programs, and initiatives from inception to conclusion based upon business priorities
• Providing insights into business and project processes through data analysis and visualization
• Identifying process improvement and workflow optimization opportunities and create repeatable and scalable frameworks to implement them
• Contributing to the management and evolution of our existing technical information request process and supporting knowledge management system in support of critical business processes
• Managing and suggesting ways to improve and evolve our Tech Org information architecture
• Helping EngOps leadership prioritize work and effectively manage capacity to manage expectations and successfully achieve outcomes
• Identifying and mitigating issues and risks, escalating concerns to management and leadership, as appropriate
• Advancing and achieving outcomes through leadership, collaboration, and a willingness to listen and learn

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

• At least 8 years working in a project management-oriented role
• Familiarity with software development, information technology, and information security, and enthusiasm for Agile practices
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills
• Experience managing projects, programs, and initiatives from inception to closure and through the entire life cycle
• Experience working with content management or knowledge management systems
• Experience using data to measure processes, provide insights, and develop visualizations
• Ability to identify and solve problems and manage workload with minimal guidance
• Capable of collaborating with cross-functional, globally distributed teams and stakeholders to establish and maintain reliable and productive working relationships
• Comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels of the organization, including technical experts, business owners, and executive level staff
• Adaptable to an evolving and changing environment, and comfortable managing through change and ambiguity
• Desire to build relationships and influence others through integrity and trust
• Fluency in written and spoken English at CEF B2 level or above

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Creating and managing SharePoint instances, sites, pages, lists, and workflows
• Leveraging PowerApps to create and automate workflows
• Creating visualizations and dashboards in PowerBI
• Creating work items, configuring templates, querying and creating reports in Azure DevOps

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.    

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.