Accreditation & Institutional Effectiveness Project Manager

• Maintain project timelines, assignments, deadlines, and status updates.
• Collect, organize, format, and track accreditation narratives and supporting evidence.
• Manage files, document versions, hyperlinks, references, exhibits, and appendices.
• Identify missing materials, inconsistencies, broken links, and project risks.
• Coordinate meetings and follow up with administrators, faculty, and staff.
• Support final report assembly, formatting, and quality control.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience preferred.
• Experience: Experience in project coordination/management, administrative coordination, document management, institutional effectiveness, accreditation, higher education administration, or a related field preferred. Experience with NWCCU, COCA, AACSB, or other institutional or professional accreditation process is preferred but not required.
• Skills & Abilities: Highly organized and detail-oriented professional with excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, deadlines, contributors, and documents. Must demonstrate strong judgment, follow-through, professionalism, and discretion when working with senior administrators, faculty, staff, and accreditation leaders.

• Able to manage large, complex documents and collections of supporting evidence, including documents containing extensive hyperlinks, references, exhibits, and cross-referenced materials.
• Highly organized with strong document management and version-control skills.
• Able to establish and maintain systems for project tracking: assignments, deadlines, responsible parties, status, and outstanding items.
• Comfortable following up with individuals at all levels of an organization to obtain information and keep projects moving.
• Exceptionally detail-oriented, with strong proofreading and quality-control skills.
• Able to recognize missing information, inconsistencies, broken links, outdated documents, and other issues that could compromise the completeness of a submission.
• Able to work independently while also functioning effectively as part of a collaborative team.
• Self-motivated, dependable, and capable of managing priorities with limited supervision.
• Able to work effectively under deadline pressure and manage multiple competing priorities.
• Comfortable learning unfamiliar accreditation requirements, terminology, and reporting structures.
• Able to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment when handling institutional and sensitive information.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel, including the ability to work with large documents, tables, hyperlinks, and spreadsheets.
• Comfortable working with shared electronic files, cloud-based document systems, and other collaboration and project-management tools.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with NWCCU, COCA, AACSB, or other accreditation processes; experience working in higher education; experience supporting accreditation reports, self-studies, interim reports, or institutional effectiveness activities; experience with project-management or task-tracking software; and experience assembling large, complex reports with extensive supporting documentation and cross-references.

• You’ll collaborate with dedicated higher education leaders, contribute to mission-critical accreditation work, and make a meaningful impact on the College’s continued growth and success— all within a flexible, part-time assignment.

• Competitive pay range of $32.00–$35.00 per hour , depending on qualifications and experience.
  • All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a background check and verification of applicable credentials and licensure.