What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Management Specialist position at BJU Press?
POSITION SUMMARY: Do you love working with people and hitting deadlines? Do you want to use these skills to help provide Christian educational materials from a biblical worldview for students around the world? Project Coordinators set goals and schedules to help team members meet crucial deadlines. They coordinate multiple project teams across multiple departments in order to get our product to the market on time.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Project manage a minimum of 2 product lines and 1 specialized area
- Communicates with management and project team members
- Collaborates with other project coordinators in regards to shared resources
- Communicates with vendors and freelance team members
- Coordinates the implementation of product line plans
- Leads various team meetings
- Schedules work tasks and breaks them down into achievable goals
- Monitors work progress
- Identifies weak areas and offers solutions
- Facilitates issue resolution
- Gains knowledge of the current physical book and video production process and offers solutions for a more efficient process
- Complete any additional tasks required
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to use project management tools
- Ability to plan, schedule and track projects
- Ability to adjust, recover, troubleshoot, brainstorm and work under pressure
- Ability to lead a team to hit due dates
- Ability to help a team follow established processes
- Ability to facilitate issue resolution for a team
- Ability to start/finish reports on time
- Ability to be proactive in communication and handling project challenges
- Ability to multi-task
- Ability to create a fun/happy work environment
- Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project preferred
An applicant for a position in the Bob Jones University group — Bob Jones University, Bob Jones Academy or BJU Press — must be a born-again Christian who has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Each applicant must agree with and affirm the Bob Jones University creed, mission (see https://www.bju.edu/about/creed-mission.php) and core biblical doctrines regarding areas such as the Bible, the triune God, man and salvation, etc. Employees are expected to maintain a conservative lifestyle and support the group’s positions on issues such as beverage alcohol and addictive substances, creation, marriage and human sexuality and the sanctity of life, etc., (https://www.bju.edu/about/positions.php). Employees are to be active members of a local Bible-believing church which holds orthodox theology. Whether in the classroom, online, through student activities, or through the preparation of educational materials for Christian schools and homeschool families, applicants must be committed to providing students an excellent, worldclass education from a biblical worldview that prepares them for a lifetime of service for Jesus Christ.
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