Strategic Projects Coordinator

Job Description

Job Description

Company:

For more than six decades, Goodwill Central Texas has been relentlessly focused on empowering thousands of people to work. We transform revenue from over 37 retail locations into a combination of education, career training, job placement, career coaching and support, and more. Every time you shop or support Goodwill, you are helping fund our greater mission to serve our community. Goodwill’s vision extends far beyond our retail stores and your generous donations: We envision a Central Texas where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

The Goodwill Excel Center for Adults opened in 2014 as an open-enrollment public charter high school for adults ages 18 to 50. The Excel Center Adult High School transforms lives in a supportive and holistic learning environment where all students are empowered to achieve. 

For more information on the Goodwill Excel Center Adult High School, visit

Commitment to Excellence

At The Excel Center, we are building a high-performing organization focused on transforming lives through the power of education and work and becoming the model of excellence for adult education across Texas. Our team members contribute to a culture grounded in our values of caring, innovation, and accountability and focused on strong graduate outcomes.

All Excel team members:

• Deliver Excellence - Uphold high standards of professionalism, execution, and service to students
• Own the Outcome - Demonstrate accountability through ownership, reliability, follow-through, and continuous improvement.
• Work as One Team - Collaborate and contribute positively to a solutions-oriented culture
• Lead with Purpose - Align actions and decisions to the organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities
• Strengthen the System - Support systems, processes, and practices that strengthen organizational effectiveness and student impact

All team members demonstrate our standards through strong individual performance and a commitment to collective excellence.

Important Retirement Information

The Goodwill Excel Center for Adults is a Texas public charter school district . Employees in TRS-eligible positions participate in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) .

Eligible employees are required to contribute a portion of their salary to TRS retirement and TRS-Care through automatic payroll deductions. TRS is a defined-benefit retirement system, and employees generally become vested after earning five years of TRS service credit .

Candidates should consider these required retirement contributions when evaluating compensation and long-term employment with the district. Additional information about TRS eligibility, contributions, vesting, and retirement benefits is available through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

Role

The Strategic Projects Coordinator leads the planning and execution of assigned strategic initiatives and expansion projects from approval through operational handoff. This role translates strategic priorities into clear project plans, coordinates cross-functional owners, manages timelines, budgets, risks, and dependencies, and ensures projects meet established readiness criteria and decision gates. The manager owns the project management process while functional leaders retain responsibility for technical decisions and deliverables within their areas.

The Project Coordinator owns the planning, coordination, reporting, and escalation processes for assigned initiatives, while project sponsors and functional leaders retain decision authority for strategy, resources, compliance, and functional deliverables

Role & Responsibilities

Project Planning and Governance

• Draft project charters for Senior Director approval that define scope, outcomes, owners, timelines, resource requirements, budgets, and success measures. 
• Build and maintain integrated project plans across all workstreams.
• Develop and maintain project governance structures, reporting cadence, decision points, and escalation protocols approved by the Senior Director or designated project sponsor. 
• Maintain risk, issue, dependency, and decision logs.
• Coordinate the due diligence, documentation, workstream inputs, and timelines required for expansion initiatives to move through established approval gates, including opportunity assessment, greenlighting review, business case development, and implementation following approval of agreements and expansion requests. 
• Coordinate regulatory milestones for assigned projects, including charter amendments, renewals, authorizer visits, and required submissions. Functional leaders retain responsibility for legal interpretation and content approval.

Expansion Readiness and Execution

• Coordinate due diligence across finance, facilities, talent, technology, academics, student supports, governance, compliance, safety, and communications.
• Lead integrated planning and readiness for new school openings.
• Track progress against expansion and opening criteria and identify gaps requiring leadership decisions.
• Plan and facilitate project specific site visits, readiness reviews, and implementation assessments.
• Document corrective actions agreed upon by the Senior Director or appropriate functional leader, confirm owners and deadlines, monitor completion, and escalate delays. 
• Coordinate safety readiness for new campuses and facility projects in partnership with the designated safety leader.
• Lead project closeout, operational handoff, and evaluation.

Cross-functional Coordination

• Convene assigned project teams, establish deliverables and deadlines in coordination with the Senior Director and functional leaders, and document clear ownership for each workstream. 
• Monitor commitments and escalate barriers, competing priorities, and resource constraints.
• Coordinate working level communication, project deliverables, and timelines with Goodwill shared services, external partners, vendors, authorizers, funders, and community stakeholders, while the Senior Director retains responsibility for executive relationships, negotiations, and organizational commitments. 
• Develop communication, stakeholder engagement, training, and implementation plans that support successful adoption.
• Coordinate required project reporting to partners, funders, authorizers, and regulatory agencies.

Performance and Decision Support

• Maintain a portfolio view of assigned expansion and strategic projects and identify capacity needs, competing deadlines, risks, and dependencies to inform leadership decisions about priorities and sequencing. 
• Develop dashboards and progress reports for the Senior Director, Cabinet, and Board.
• Prepare decision materials that identify options, implications, and risks to support recommendations and decisions by the Senior