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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in project and program management, utilizing traditional, agile, and innovation-oriented methods to drive cross-functional initiatives. Skilled in stakeholder management, facilitation, and continuous improvement to ensure successful project outcomes.
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Project ManagementAgile MethodologiesStakeholder ManagementFacilitation SkillsSystems Thinking
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Hard Skills
Project CoordinationAgile CoachingInnovation ManagementRisk IdentificationScope DefinitionDependency ManagementContinuous ImprovementRole ClarificationDecision-Making ProcessesWork Package Development
Soft Skills
Communication SkillsSelf-OrganizationProactive ApproachReflective ThinkingOpenness to Learning
Industry Keywords
Cross-Functional InitiativesEducation StrategyChange ManagementComplex InitiativesStrategic Thinking
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Plan, coordinate, and manage strategic, innovative, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Clarify and define project mandates in a structured manner, including clear scope boundaries.
- Translate objectives and assignments into clear work packages, responsibilities, dependencies, and verifiable outcomes.
- Establish and maintain transparent overviews of initiatives, timelines, and decisions.
- Design and facilitate mandate clarification sessions, planning meetings, working sessions, innovation workshops, retrospectives, and decision-making processes.
- Apply traditional, agile, and innovation-oriented methods.
- Proactively manage stakeholders and constructively support diverse interests, perspectives, and change requirements.
- Support participants with prioritization, self-organization, and accountable collaboration.
- Identify risks, conflicts of objectives, bottlenecks, and unresolved interfaces at an early stage.
- Ensure that necessary clarifications are reached.
- Ensure a clearly documented project closeout, including outstanding deliverables, handover, and assigned follow-up ownership.
- Continuously improve suitable approaches and working formats based on shared learning and experience.
- Shape the conditions for successful change together with leaders responsible for education strategy, education innovation, and participating specialist departments.
Requirements
What you’ll need- Several years of experience in project, program, or transformation management, particularly in cross-functional and complex initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of traditional and agile approaches, as well as innovation-oriented methods.
- Ability to apply traditional, agile, and innovation-oriented approaches appropriately to each initiative.
- Experience in agile coaching and the methodological support of teams.
- Experience with self-organization, role clarification, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Confidence in clarifying mandates, structuring initiatives, and managing delivery.
- Knowledge of objectives, scope, responsibilities, dependencies, and Definition of Done.
- Strong facilitation and communication skills.
- Confidently manage diverse interests and perspectives.
- Highly developed systems-thinking and strategic-thinking skills.
- Ability to analyze complex interrelationships and identify key patterns and interactions.
- Ability to derive clear courses of action, scope boundaries, and decision-making foundations.
- Ability to work effectively with uncertainty, unpredictability, and ambiguity.
- Independent, reflective, and proactive approach, including under unclear conditions.
- Independent, accountable, and solution-oriented way of working.
- Openness to new perspectives, eagerness to learn, and enthusiasm for shaping change.
- Experience in education, strategy development, or innovation management is desirable.
Benefits
Comp & perks- 30 days of annual leave
- Home office options
- Sabbatical opportunities
- Up to 180 days of working abroad
- Vacation and workation opportunities at our seminar centers in Berlin and Pommritz
- Numerous offers and discounts through Corporate Benefits
- Corporate running events
- Sports and relaxation programs with Voiio
- JobRad bicycle leasing
- Corporate fitness membership with EGYM Wellpass
- Yoga retreats
- Dietary supplements
- Ergonomic workplace equipment
- Coaching and advisory services
- Three professional development days
- Individual professional and personal development opportunities
- LinkedIn Learning
- Team development programs
- Leadership Management Program
- Microsoft 365 with Copilot
- Excellent compatibility between career and family life
- Paid leave to care for sick children
- Family vacations at our seminar centers
- Paid special leave for caring for relatives
- Digital childcare and tutoring with Voiio
- Annual celebrations
- Mindful meeting culture
- Onboarding seminars and onboarding buddies
- Open culture of learning from mistakes and giving feedback
- Help shape the future of education with AI
- Meaningful work with positive social impact
- Public-interest orientation with a focus on sustainability
- Herzensprojekte donation campaign by WBS GRUPPE