Skills Ontology and Learning Recognition Project Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $105k - $110k / year

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UMGC Ventures

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit

UMGC Ventures is a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting organization for University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC). It serves as a hub for innovation in learning design and development, aiming to create transformational solutions in higher education tailored to the needs of learners, businesses, community organizations, and governments. The organization focuses on digital learning experiences, modularized learning, and developing new credentialing and certification programs to support workforce development. UMGC Ventures is committed to delivering globally accessible, affordable, and quality adult education, leveraging agility and strategic thinking to adapt to evolving educational needs.

📋 Description

• Support implementation of UMGC’s learning-recognition initiative by coordinating day-to-day operational work • Translate the Director’s skills ontology, translation framework, and project strategy into work plans, documentation, stakeholder follow-through, and coordinated delivery • Maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependency tracking, and action logs • Coordinate activities across faculty reviewers, subject matter experts, data and interoperability staff, advising, institutional research, Military and Veterans Programs, and other units • Track deliverables, technical dependencies, review cycles, risks, delays, and implementation issues • Support crosswalks, evidence tables, standards mappings, version-controlled records, taxonomy research, and implementation documentation • Coordinate review cycles, consolidate feedback, and maintain current project materials • Identify, schedule, onboard, and coordinate faculty reviewers and external subject matter experts • Manage work plans, meeting schedules, contracts, stipends, and workload documentation • Prepare agendas, meeting materials, follow-up items, governance materials, status reports, meeting notes, decision logs, and traceability documentation • Maintain records of requirements, use cases, approvals, workflow artifacts, and AI-assisted recommendation process documentation • Maintain the project risk register and support mitigation tracking • Monitor personnel and non-personnel expenditures, resource needs, and administrative dependencies • Recommend sequencing or resourcing adjustments when timelines, dependencies, or review requirements change • Coordinate partner institutions and ecosystem organizations, including working sessions, demonstrations, pilots, interoperability discussions, and standards or data-exchange sessions • Organize materials related to reusable data structures, standards mappings, APIs, and partner-facing implementation discussions • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required • Master's degree in higher education administration, education, workforce development, project management, instructional design, information science, assessment, or a related field preferred • Minimum 5–7 years of progressively responsible experience in project or program coordination, academic administration, learning recognition, workforce-aligned education, skills-related initiatives, or a related area • Experience managing project plans, workstreams, timelines, documentation, and stakeholder communication across multiple contributors and functional areas • Working familiarity with skills taxonomies, ontologies, competency frameworks, prior learning assessment (PLA), credentialing, or structured crosswalks • Ability to support subject-matter work without serving as the primary methodological authority • Experience coordinating faculty or subject matter expert engagement, including meeting preparation, work-plan management, follow-up, documentation, and review logistics • Strong organizational, analytical, and written communication skills • Experience producing status reports, meeting materials, technical documentation, implementation records, and process guides • Comfort with project management tools, shared documentation environments, implementation artifacts, risk tracking, budget/resource monitoring, and transparent decision logs • Experience supporting grant-funded initiatives, multi-institution collaborations, or externally sponsored projects preferred • Familiarity with military learning evaluation, workforce learning records, digital credentials, interoperability-related initiatives, or standards-mapping work preferred • Exposure to AI-assisted recommendation or evaluation workflows, documentation traceability, data governance, or quality assurance practices preferred • PMP certification, CAPM, Agile/project coordination training, or comparable experience preferred • Experience partnering with Academic Affairs, faculty governance, sponsored programs, institutional research, assessment functions, or technical/data teams in a university setting preferred • Cover letter and resume required

🏖️ Benefits

• 22 days of paid vacation • 15 days of sick leave • 3 personal days • 16 paid holidays (17 during general election years) • Health care, medical with vision, dental, and prescription plans for individuals and families • Subsidized state of Maryland medical and prescription benefits for eligible Contingent II employees • Health-plan purchase stipend for eligible Contingent II employees • Term Life Insurance • Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance • Long-Term Disability Insurance for eligible employees • Retirement stipend equal to 7.25 percent of base salary • Supplemental retirement account (SRA) • 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), and Roth options • Immediate tuition remission at UMGC or University of Maryland College Park for eligible CII employees • Undergraduate tuition remission for spouses and dependent children after two years of service