22 Aug
|
Nexority
|
India
Project Manager – EdTech / Publishing
Experience: 2–4 Years (Junior) | 5+ Years (Senior)
Industry: EdTech / Publishing / E-learning / Learning Content
Employment Type: Contractual
Location: Remote
About the Role
We are looking for Project Managers at Junior and Senior levels with experience in EdTech, Publishing, E-learning, digital learning, or educational content development.
The role will involve planning, coordinating, and monitoring learning-content and course-development projects while working closely with internal teams, clients, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
The Senior Project Manager will additionally be responsible for leading projects/teams, managing client relationships, driving project execution, and taking ownership of project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and manage day-to-day project activities across internal teams, clients, and external vendors.
- Track project timelines, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, priorities, and overall project progress.
- Coordinate with Content Writers, Editors, Instructional Designers, SMEs, Designers, Developers, QA teams, and other stakeholders.
- Communicate project requirements, briefs, feedback, changes, and priorities clearly to relevant teams.
- Follow up on pending tasks and proactively identify delays, risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks.
- Coordinate client reviews, feedback cycles, revisions, and final approvals.
- Organize and participate in internal and client meetings and maintain MOMs and action trackers.
- Maintain project trackers, status reports, dashboards, and project documentation.
- Coordinate with external vendors and ensure timely delivery of assigned work.
- Ensure deliverables are aligned with agreed scope, quality standards, and timelines.
- Maintain proper documentation of project communications, decisions, approvals, and changes.
- Escalate project issues appropriately and support timely resolution of bottlenecks.
- Support project planning, resource coordination, and execution as required.
Additional Responsibilities – Senior Project Manager
- Lead end-to-end project execution and take ownership of project delivery.
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional project teams.
- Act as a key point of contact for clients and manage ongoing stakeholder communication.
- Plan project activities, resources, timelines, and priorities.
- Monitor team performance, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and overall project health.
- Conduct regular project reviews and provide clear status updates to management and clients.
- Drive issue resolution and ensure timely escalation of critical project risks.
- Mentor and guide Junior Project Managers/Project Coordinators and project team members.
- Manage multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously, where required.
- Identify opportunities to improve project processes, workflows, and delivery efficiency.
Required Experience Junior Project Manager
- 2–4 years* of experience in project coordination/project management.
- Experience in EdTech, educational publishing, academic publishing, e-learning, digital content, or learning-content development is highly preferred.
- Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, internal teams, clients, and/or vendors.
- Understanding of content development, course development, or publishing workflows.
- Experience working with cross-functional or distributed teams.
Senior Project Manager
- 5+ years* of experience in project management, preferably in EdTech, Publishing, E-learning, or digital content development.
- Proven experience leading projects and/or cross-functional teams.
- Experience managing clients, vendors, internal stakeholders, timelines, risks, and project deliverables.
- Strong experience in end-to-end project planning and execution.
- Experience managing multiple projects, workstreams, or complex deliverables is preferred.
- Experience mentoring or guiding junior team members/project coordinators.
Required Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong project coordination and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong follow-up and ownership mindset.
- Good organizational and time-management abilities.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to identify risks, delays, dependencies, and escalate them proactively.
- Ability to understand project requirements and translate them into actionable tasks.
- Comfortable working with MS Excel/Google Sheets, PowerPoint, Word, and project-management tools.
- Robust documentation and reporting skills.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional and distributed teams.
Preferred Background
Candidates with experience in EdTech, educational publishing, academic publishing, e-learning, digital learning products, course developmet, or learning-content production will be preferred.
📌 Junior Project Manager – EdTech / Publishing (India)
🏢 Nexority
📍 India