• Job Description

  Req#: R 2024 1862

  Position Summary

  The Community Engagement Manager at NU-Harmony Academy plays a pivotal role in planning, executing, and overseeing our Community Engagement projects aimed at providing resources and a learning environment within, but not limited to National University’s on-site locations. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, manages project timelines, and ensures the successful delivery of community initiatives from conception to completion.

  Essential Functions:

  Community Engagement Planning and Execution:

  • Develop detailed Community Engagement Business Plan, outlining scope, goals, deliverables, and timelines.
  • Coordinate with internal stakeholders to define requirements and objectives.
  • Execute the plan according to the project plan, ensuring adherence to quality standards.

  Team Collaboration

  • Collaborate with subject matter experts, instructional designers, and other stakeholders to gather project requirements.
  • Foster a collaborative and communicative environment to ensure the smooth flow of information within the project team.
  • Support field team in proactively developing, growing, and retaining strategic, long-term partnerships with new and existing clients within an assigned geography or industry vertical.
  • Build relationships with select group of clients and prospective clients to ensure clients are dealt with professionally, effectively, with team members to reach and maintain growth and revenue goals and at the same time promote the NU-Harmony Academy mission, vision, and values to the company and to its employees.

  Resource Management

  • Allocate resources effectively to ensure optimal project delivery.
  • Monitor and manage project budgets, tracking expenses and providing regular reports to leadership.

  Risk Management

  • Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies.
  • Proactively address challenges to keep projects on track and within scope.

  Quality Assurance

  • Ensure that project deliverables meet the highest standards of quality.
  • Conduct regular reviews and evaluations to assess project progress and identify areas for improvement.

  Communication

  • Provide regular updates to leadership and stakeholders on project status, milestones, and key deliverables.
  • Facilitate effective communication between team members to ensure everyone is aligned with project goals.
  • Other duties as assigned.

  Supervisory Responsi bilities : N/A

  Requirements:

  Education & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in education, business, or a related field required.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of related experience required.
  • Proven experience as a manager, preferably in the education sector, required.
  • Experience in higher education preferred.
  • Experience working in a technology-driven enterprise preferred.
  • All skills, abilities and education will be considered for minimum qualifications.

  Competencies/Technical/Functional Skills:

  • Ability to participate as an active team member of the team and organization and work toward a common goal. Contributes fully to the team effort and plays an integral part in the smooth running of teams without necessarily taking the lead. Demonstrates an ability to participate as an active team member working toward common goals.
  • Actively seeks opportunities to influence, build effective relationships and gain alignment with peers, functional partners and/or external partners to accomplish business objectives.
  • Accepts personal accountability, proactively seeks resolution for personal limitations head-on; and supports honesty and respect towards others, the company and oneself.
  • Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes. Ability to generate and/or recognize imaginative or creative solutions that generate successful outcomes.
  • Working knowledge, principles, and practices of office management/systems within a higher education environment, preferred. Demonstrates an understanding of underlying organizational issues.
  • Intermediate use of computers and Microsoft Office Suite Applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook.
  • Work independently and foster a cooperative spirit within a large and/or small team of diverse cultures, while working in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects, deadlines, and frequently changing priorities.
  • Ability to drive towards achieving measurable and challenging goals to support organizational success. Demonstrates the ability to focus on achieving results consistent with the organization’s objectives. As a leader, develops goals based on the organization’s vision, mission, strategic goals, and objectives.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of underlying organizational issues.
  • Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.
  • Actively seeks to influence, build effective relationships, and gain alignment with peers, functional partners and/or external partners to accomplish business objectives.

  Location: On-site (Spectrum Campus Nucleus Center)

  Travel: Occasional Travel Required

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  Candidate receiving offers will be offered a salary/pay rate commensurate with experience that vary based on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. Absent exceptional circumstances, candidates will be offered a salary within this range for this position. The minimum salary will be offered based on the minimum exemption threshold based on state of residency. Base pay is one component of National University’s total rewards package, as we are dedicated to supporting the needs of the “whole you” with our holistic approach to employee benefits by offering comprehensive well-being benefits for you and your family. For full details about our benefit plan offerings, please visit benefits.nu.edu. For Part-time benefits, please click here.

  Compensation Range:

  Annual Salary: $56,890.00 - $76,800.00

  National University is committed to maintaining a high-quality, diverse workforce representative of the populations we serve. National University employs more than 5,000 faculty and staff and serves over 41,000 students. We are united in our mission to meet the global education demands of the 21st Century and are dedicated to creating a supportive academic and work environment that allows students, faculty and staff to develop their interests and talents while experiencing a sense of community and a commitment to diversity. With programs available both online and at our many campus locations, National University is a leader in creating innovative solutions to education and meeting the needs of our diverse student population, including adult learners and working professionals.

  National University offers an opportunity to work in an innovative environment that supports diversity.

  National University (NU) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate against any employee or applicant for employee per applicable federal, state and local laws. At NU, a diverse mix of highly talented, innovative and creative people come together to make the impact of a lifetime for each of our student learners. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment, education, and admission at National University. We are focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, color, ancestry, age, family care status, veteran status, marital status, creed, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and other legally protected group status.

• About the company

  National University is a private university with its headquarters in San Diego, California.

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