Project Coordinator

Impact the Moment

When was the last time you experienced the impact of your work? Our Project Coordinator team thrives on building meaningful relationships with educators and learners. With that comes the unique opportunity to touch lives across the world and experience first-hand the difference your hard work makes.

How can you make an impact?

As a Project Coordinator at McGraw Hill, you can drive impactful collaboration by ensuring seamless communication between teams, fostering efficiency and alignment in delivering educational solutions. Your ability to manage timelines and resources effectively will directly contribute to the success of projects that empower educators and learners worldwide. By maintaining organization and proactively addressing challenges, you can help create innovative products and services that transform education and support lifelong learning.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. This is a Project Status Worker (PSW) role with an end date of 09/29/2028.

What you will be doing:

• Create and manage agile project planning documents and other artifacts including Jira cards and Smartsheet for composition, digital delivery, reprints, translations, assessment and other activities as assigned.
• Lead agile project ceremonies and meetings including vendors and project resources.
• Assign and manage onshore and offshore vendors to ensure definition of work is realistic, understood, and executed on time.
• Identify and manage issues and risks with vendor and working team, escalating as needed, to manager and/or product team.
• Document and manage action items for follow-through.
• Document and assess implications of changes and decisions regarding scope and budget.
• Review and verify required vendor input documents are delivered by the product team upon hand off notification.
• Ensure quality checks are performed as defined by Production Center of Excellence.
• Utilize and oversee usage of production and delivery systems like Jira, InDesign, K4, Habitat, Smartsheet, and other digital delivery.
• Collaborate with vendors and project stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery, drive communication, identify risks and issues relevant to production activities.
• Align delivery dates to project milestones, as defined by project team and manager.

We're looking for someone with:

• Bachelor's degree preferred or relevant work experience.
• 1-3 years total work experience.
• Prior publishing experience preferred.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Acute attention to details, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and willingness to ask questions.
• Experience using Microsoft office tools and project management tools like Jira and smartsheet.com, and familiarity with project management framework and methodologies especially Agile.

Here's what we offer:

At McGraw Hill, you will be empowered to make a real impact on a global scale. Every day your individual efforts can contribute to the lives of millions.

The pay range for this position is between $55,000 - $60,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Additionally, a full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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