Role: Project Manager

The detail:
Area: USA
City: Salt Lake City/Oxfford/London/Cape Town
Education level: Undergraduate Degree
Compensation: Competitive

We are:
Construct was born out of a passion to leverage the disruptive power of digital learning to transform individuals and organizations, globally. With offices in London, Oxford, Doha, Salt Lake City, and Cape Town, and delivering courses to 100,000+ learners in over 165 countries, our vision is to become the global leader in digital learning. We partner with Higher Education, Government and Enterprise to create tailored and engaging digital learning experiences. We provide world-class instructional design, digital content production, and project management services.

It’s a hugely exciting time to join Construct! We’re delivering ambitious projects with partners such as the University of Oxford, DeVry University, and INSEAD through our embedded partnership with Instructure. We are experiencing an exciting period of growth, having secured recent investment and several significant client wins.

We need you:
We're seeking a Project Manager with a special cocktail of skills. For this role, you must be passionate about people and forging strong, long-lasted relationships - both with your client stakeholders and with your coworkers, who sit in offices around the globe. You should be extremely detail-oriented, and enjoy process so much that when there isn't a process, you take pride in creating one. We expect you to be both fiercely independent and deeply collaborative - you must be able to work hard without oversight and communicate early and often with your project teams.

Experience in the higher education industry or as a teacher is a huge bonus, especially if you have worked with Canvas learning management system. You must be willing to travel, sometimes for extended periods, to be successful in this role.


To do:
Project management:
Deliver projects on time and within budget
Continuously improve upon your deliverables
Present regular reports on client accounts to management team
Drive improvement in delivery effectiveness and efficiency

Managing key client accounts:
Partner with a portfolio of global clients
Manage the seamless delivery of our products and exceptional client service
Prepare regular reports on account status and manage project budgets
Drive further business opportunities with existing partners

Support business development:
Collaborate with sales team to identify and drive opportunities
Work with the management team on strategic projects and improvement initiatives
Support sales team up-sell or cross-sell services and products
Study competition to find new ways to attract and retain clients
Represent Construct at conferences, events or other marketing opportunities

You’ll need to be good at:
People management, especially with a global project team
Developing trusted advisor relationships
Juggling multiple projects at a time
Maintaining a sharp attention to detail
Driving continuous improvement in the quality of products and service
Understanding of Canvas LMS or willingness to learn

And enjoy:
As a rapidly growing company, change, and the ability to adapt to change, is inherently part of our culture. We pride ourselves in:
Being dynamic and fast-paced; ultimately, we make things happen
Making smart decisions that build a sustainable future for us and our partners
Being collaborative, co-creating engaging learning experiences together
Keeping things straightforward, grounded in integrity, simplicity and fairness
Being invested; using our shared passions to achieve outcomes and impact

In return, we’ll give you:
The opportunity to join a talented and passionate team with unlimited opportunity for professional growth. You’ll have the chance to shape your own career path, grow a world class delivery team, and contribute to our own and our partners’ growth.