Associate Director of Project and Change Management
About The Position
The Associate Director of Project and Change Management provides leadership and expertise for managing complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives within the Division of Strategic Educational Alliances. This position serves as the division's dedicated leader responsible for project management excellence and change management strategy, ensuring initiatives achieve maximum impact through effective planning, stakeholder engagement, and sustainable adoption. This role develops and implements project management frameworks and change management methodologies that guide initiatives from conception through successful integration. This position exists to transform divisional goals into measurable outcomes by ensuring rigorous project execution and proactive change facilitation. As UNT builds its reputation in Executive and Professional Education and expands strategic educational alliances, this role provides the essential infrastructure for managing growth, mitigating implementation risks, and fostering stakeholder adoption.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in related field and five years of closely related professional experience.
- Ability to set priorities and complete assignments on time.
- Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines.
- Ability to establish and maintain a good rapport with university faculty and staff, students, and the general public.
- Ability to work collaboratively and building strategic relations with colleagues, coworkers, constituents and volunteers.
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Ability to exercise sound judgment in making critical decisions.
- Ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Ability to analyze complex information and develop plans to address identified issues.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in a related field
- Significant experience working within complex, decentralized higher education environments
- Experience leading organizational change and cross-functional projects
- PMP, Prosci, CCMP, or comparable certification
Responsibilities
- Leads project management for large-scale, multi-stakeholder initiatives in Executive and Professional Education, including platform development, program launches, and partnership ventures, ensuring timely delivery and stakeholder alignment
- Develops and implements change management frameworks and strategies to drive stakeholder engagement, adoption, and sustainable integration of new programs, processes, and technologies across the division
- Supervises project and change management team, including hiring, performance management, and professional development to build organizational capacity for managing complex initiatives
- Interfaces with senior leadership to coordinate project priorities, communicate progress, identify risks, and ensure alignment with divisional and institutional strategic goals
- Monitors project outcomes and change adoption metrics, providing data-driven insights and recommendations for continuous improvement and future initiative planning
- Other duties as requested
Benefits
- TRS Eligible
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
