Senior Director, University Partnerships

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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Risepoint

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📚 Education

Consulting • Marketing • Education

Risepoint is an education technology company that partners with regional public and private universities to design, launch, and grow workforce-focused online degree programs. It provides marketing, student support, faculty support, technology implementations, performance monitoring, and student ROI research to help institutions expand access, increase enrollments, and deliver high-return programs for working adults.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end launches of new university partners, overseeing priorities, cross-functional dependencies, and delivery to ensure successful, on-time launches while balancing competing business and partner needs. • Serve as the partner's main point of contact, building executive-level relationships that sustain a successful partnership. • Influence partner stakeholders at every level to adopt Risepoint's best practices and recommendations. • Use current industry news and trends, along with a library of best-practice experiences and know-how, to identify gaps in the partnership or operations, and make and set recommendations that ensure operational excellence for both the partner and Risepoint. • Drive change management so partner teams understand, accept, and carry out the practices launch requires. • Lead cross-functional alignment across Business Technology, Marketing, Marketing Operations, Academic Services, and other teams, establishing clear accountability, resolving competing priorities, and driving coordinated execution across partner launches. • Partner with Business Development to set launch expectations for prospective partners as deals and the portfolio are finalized. • Lead the partner readiness assessment that gauges how closely each partner aligns to Risepoint's best practices. • Continuously optimize the launch process by capturing lessons learned from each launch and applying them to Risepoint’s playbooks, best practices, and cross-functional handoffs, improving the predictability and quality of future launches. • Track launch performance through metrics including on-time and in-scope delivery, launches led from kickoff to go-live, workstream completion, readiness assessments, and partner executive sponsor feedback.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in project, program, or partnership management, including leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and managing multiple concurrent projects or partner launches. • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Higher Education, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. • Working knowledge of partner contract structures and economics. • Deep knowledge of higher education online operations and processes. • Experience building and sustaining relationships with executive sponsors and influencing stakeholders at every level. • Experience leading change management efforts that move teams to adopt new practices. • Experience holding cross-functional teams accountable for deliverables without direct authority over them. • Clear written and verbal communication with executives, partners, and internal teams. • Experience supporting new business development efforts, including setting expectations with prospective clients. • Experience leading readiness or maturity assessments that gauge alignment to a set of best practices.

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