Student Success Project Manager

Job Purpose The Student Success Project Manager plans, manages, and tracks projects and initiatives across multiple student success units. This role designs and maintains transparency of strategic initiatives in alignment with the priorities of the university’s broader retention and completion goals. In addition, the Student Success Project Manager is responsible for partnering with leaders of past initiatives that have advanced student persistence at Wayne State University to publish project charters and formal reports for the student success project repository.

Using predictive analytics along with institutional dashboards and data assets, this position assesses the academic performance needs of students, with particular attention to historically underrepresented and niche populations. This position reports to the Director, Student Success Operational Strategy.

Essential Functions

• (Essential functions are the primary duties/major job responsibilities that an employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• The essential functions are listed in order of importance.
• Develop reports for student success outcome measures, KPIs, and other metrics to ensure attainment of student success objectives.
• Lead planning, logistics, and outcome analysis for multiple teams of the Student Success Collaborative.
• Increase meaningful collaboration between the Office of Student Success Operational Strategy and campus partners to drive progress toward student retention and completion goals.
• Effectively leverage student success systems and platforms to analyze, track, and report on student progress.
• Manage workflow of ad hoc projects supporting multiple student success units.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.