ASU Partnership Project Manager – Independent Contractor (1099)

InStride • Los Angeles, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

InStride is seeking a highly organized and proactive ASU Partnership Project Manager for a part-time contract role, supporting the execution of key initiatives related to InStride’s partnership with Arizona State University (ASU). This role focuses on organizing projects, meetings, stakeholders, documentation, and deliverables to ensure they move forward effectively. The ideal candidate is an exceptional project manager skilled in coordinating multiple stakeholders, maintaining clear documentation, tracking action items and deadlines, and ensuring commitments are met.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in project management, program management, operations, consulting, or a similar role involving coordination of complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Highly organized with demonstrated success managing multiple workstreams, deadlines, stakeholders, and deliverables simultaneously.
• Exceptional follow-through and ability to proactively ensure action items and commitments are completed.
• Ability to take a complex or loosely defined initiative and create the necessary structure, documentation, timeline, and accountability to move it forward.
• Clear and professional communication skills, comfortable working directly with both internal stakeholders and external ASU stakeholders.
• Ability to excel in collaborative environments where multiple teams and perspectives must come together to execute successfully.
• Proactive and adaptable mindset, ready to tackle challenges with resourcefulness and positivity.
• Ability to thrive in dynamic, fast-paced settings, embracing change and ambiguity with ease.
• A knack for finding practical solutions and removing operational roadblocks.
• Motivation by meaningful work and seeking opportunities where contributions have a lasting impact.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in higher education, education technology, or with large university systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables for initiatives related to InStride’s partnership with Arizona State University.
• Ensure project owners have clarity on responsibilities and deadlines and proactively surface risks or blockers that could impact execution.
• Coordinate work across InStride teams and ASU stakeholders to ensure initiatives move forward efficiently.
• Connect the right stakeholders, clarify ownership and dependencies, and maintain visibility into progress across workstreams.
• Support recurring and project-specific meetings between InStride and ASU by coordinating agendas, gathering materials, documenting key decisions, capturing action items, and ensuring owners follow through on commitments.
• Create and maintain organized, accurate documentation for ASU initiatives, including project plans, meeting notes, decision logs, action-item trackers, timelines, and status updates.
• Leverage platforms such as Asana, Confluence, Salesforce, and other collaboration tools to create transparency and accountability.
• Maintain a centralized view of outstanding actions, deliverables, owners, and deadlines.
• Proactively follow up with stakeholders, identify overdue or at-risk items, and escalate blockers when appropriate.
• Develop concise updates that provide internal and external stakeholders with clear visibility into project progress, upcoming milestones, open decisions, risks, and next steps.
• Help coordinate the resolution of operational issues involving InStride and ASU by documenting the issue, identifying appropriate stakeholders, tracking decisions and next steps, and ensuring items are carried through to resolution.
• Identify opportunities to improve how ASU-related projects, meetings, documentation, and cross-functional workflows are managed.
• Implement practical improvements that reduce friction, strengthen accountability, and make execution more efficient.

Benefits

• Enrollment in 2,800+ online certificate and degree programs through the Step Forward program (tuition covered upfront).
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible vacation policy
• Paid family leave
• Best-in-class health care benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed