About the position
Th is position provides project management and operational support for Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) initiatives across Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. The Project Manager coordinates cross-functional, matrixed teams; manages scope, schedule, and budget; and ensures deliverables meet institutional goals and compliance requirements. In addition to day-to-day project operations, the role contributes to business process design, testing, and a structured continuous improvement cycle that delivers sustainable, high-impact outcomes for all institutions.
Responsibilities
• Coordinates cross-functional, matrixed teams
• Manages scope, schedule, and budget
• Ensures deliverables meet institutional goals and compliance requirements
• Contributes to business process design
• Contributes to testing
• Contributes to a structured continuous improvement cycle
Requirements
• Four ( 4 ) years of professional experience supporting or managing projects, programs, or process improvement initiatives in human resources, higher education, or government. A bachelor's degree may substitute for one years of professional experience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large projects from inception through evaluation, including scope definition, requirements, budgets, constraints, and communications.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, and the ability to communicate with a diverse set of stakeholders from business and technical communities.
• Experience facilitating meetings, workshops, and/or training sessions with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to facilitate , coach, and remove obstacles (impediments) for the team.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating diverse project teams in a complex, matrixed organization.
Nice-to-haves
• Experience implementing Lean, Kaizen, or similar continuous improvement programs.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Proficiency using analytical tools to interpret, cleanse, organize, and present data.
• Experience interpreting employment law, rules, regulations and personal agreements sufficient to ensure compliance and mitigate risk
• Demonstrated ability to make well-informed, timely , and data-driven decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with leaders and other key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to create an environment that encourages cooperation, motivation, innovation, and high-performance teamwork.
Benefits
• 11 paid Holidays
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• six weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• low cost medical and dental insurance with low deductibles ($250 - $1500)
• a Pension Plan
• 457(b) and 403(b) retirement plans and other retirement investment options
• pre-tax medical and dental expense (with roll-over option) and dependent care accounts
• employer paid life insurance
• short and long term disability
• professional development
• a tuition waiver program for employees and their dependents