Student Success Project Manager

Wayne State University is searching for an experienced Student Success Project Manager at its Detroit campus location.

Wayne State is a premier, public, urban research university located in the heart of Detroit, Michigan where students from all backgrounds are offered a rich, high-quality education. Our deep-rooted commitment to excellence, collaboration, integrity, diversity and inclusion creates exceptional educational opportunities which prepare students for success in a global society.

Essential functions (job duties):

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.