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Location:
Claremont, CA
Job Posting Title:
Senior Project Manager
Job Details and Requirement:
Department : Data, Systems, and Integrations
Supervisor : VP of Admission, Financial Aid, Enrollment & College
Last Updated : 06/30/2026
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
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.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Project Governance & Process Management
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.
Change Management
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.
Data Management
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…