Program Manager

Company Description

Paragon One helps students get professional experience easily to explore careers, build their resumes, and land jobs. We believe that every student will have the ability to easily access professional experience in the future to launch their careers. For enterprises who want to engage early talent without draining managerial resources, Paragon One’s platform saves companies time and money while helping them scale student engagement and hit their DE&I goals. Paragon One has served thousands of students on the path to 3X growth in 2021. Enterprises partnering with Paragon One include Facebook, PwC, Pfizer, National Geographic, HP, Snapchat, and Cloudflare.

Job Description

We are looking for program managers with a passion for education and career training to improve students success and experience on Paragon One remote externship programs. By preparing and delivering sessions, coaching, and helping students working on different projects for partner companies, we expect program managers to achieve a high program completion rate and student satisfaction.

Outcomes:

• Achieve 80% completion rate for programs managed
• Achieve an avg rating of 9.0+ out of 10 on the sessions facilitated

• Qualifications

  Competencies:

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong projectprogram management
  • Strong teambuilding skills
  • Attention to detail: Detailoriented and organized
  • Proactivity: Able to work independently and be a selfstarter who takes initiative
  • Flexibilityadaptability: Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions and copes effectively with complexity and change
  • Enthusiasm: Exhibits passion and excitement over work and has a cando attitude

  • Requirements:

    • Completed a Bachelors degree (MBA completed or in the course is a plus)
    • 3+ years of professional experience in program management, project management, or management strategy consulting
    • Experience with video conferencing software like Zoom
    • Personal access to reliable technology and a stable wifi connection

    • Additional Information

      This is a contractor position with a flexible commitment between 15h40h per week.