Project Manager, Education
12 Months W2 Contract
Salt Lake City, Utah (remote)
Benefits You’ll Love:

• NextDeavor offers health, vision and dental benefits for contract employees.
• You’ll be eligible to receive Paid Sick Leave (Amount varies per state)
• Own the opportunity to get your foot in the door at a well-established corporation, with the likelihood of extension or conversion to full time employment (NextDeavor’s conversion rate is approximately 70%!)

Become a key player as a Project Manager at Adobe Systems
This full time, Project Manager role for the Create Utah initiative provides administrative and project management support only to the Utah Public Education Department’s implementation of daily contract activities. Serves as a primary contact for K-12 Utah charter schools and districts (i.e., development, meetings, professional development production and distribution, administration, and reporting).

Here’s how you’ll make an impact on the team: 

• Establish relationships with UEN Directors and Local Education Agency (LEA) leadership to drive product activation and usage of Adobe Creative Cloud for Create Utah.
• Own and lead monthly multi-level Local Education Agency relationships from Superintendents, Principals, IT Leaders, and Educators.
• Collaborate with other Utah state level
• Craft mutual success plan based on both student and teacher/staff activation aligned to UEN and Adobe initiatives that drive value for Create Utah and Adobe.
• Support Faculty / Staff Enablement and curriculum integration
• Problem-solve with district administration and IT admins on barriers to unlocking student and teacher active use inside and outside the classroom.
• Craft communications for various social media, routine communications to the Local Education Agency and for Adobe.
• Coordinate efforts with Create Utah and Higher Education institutions to bridge the story between K12 and HED. Arrange virtual and on-site product trainings, meetups, product challenges.
• Partner with complimentary EdTech vendors to build co-branded
• Work with Adobe Evangelists to plan activities that drive teacher community
• Gather and communicate feedback to influence specific strategies with internal Adobe team as district programs are created.
• Ensure timely and knowledgeable responses to ongoing customer
• Weekly on-site meetings, in-person presentations with administrators, teachers, parent coordinators and school point of contacts.
• Provide weekly status reports to UEN- program manager to include implementations in process and completed, number of licenses by LEA and any activities that should be shared with LEA leadership.
• Provide monthly data activation to the Utah planning team and opportunities for training, challenges, strategies, etc.
• Provide legislative or public reports as
• Notify UEN program manager of any issues that may need to be addressed by LEA
• Coordinate fieldtrips, workshops and tours at Adobe Lehi Office
• Responsible for ensuring LEA’s sign the required UETN license usage agreement and then assist their account activation.
• Share Adobe Product Updates with UETN, USBE and LEAs on all available tools and additions to the Adobe product suite.
• Travel requirement- Up to 50%

 

Here’s what else might help you out:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years in customer-facing roles such as sales, partnerships, district administration, customer success, and account management, ideally having partnered with Utah Department of Education. 
• The Project manager must be able to passes additional background checks required by Utah to work in public schools to work directly with the LEA’s (Employment Risk Insurance).

Pay Range:
$55.00 - 65.00/hour
Ready to make your mark? Apply now for the opportunity to shape the future at Adobe as a Project Manager!