Principal Scheduler

Role: Principal Scheduler

Team: School Assessment

Duration: Permanent

Work Schedule: Remote

Location: USA

At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team that makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe.

Role Summary

As the Principal Scheduler, you will be responsible for creating and managing Pearson’s end-to-end project schedules for multiple projects/programs across School Assessment. You will ensure the schedules accurately reflect scope for all internal and customer deliverables. You will also monitor and enforce that tasks are completed on-time, to meet both internal and customer deadlines.

To be successful, we need you to:

• Serve as a primary point of contact to establish schedules that align to scope, process, resources, and both internal and customer deadlines.
• Collaborate, internally, to establish schedules that allow functional teams to allocate available resources to best serve client or customer needs.
• Work with functional project management teams and portfolio project management teams to monitor schedule progress weekly.
• Ensure that schedule best practices and procedures are being followed consistently across all project schedules.
• Negotiate across functional departments, as needed, to keep project schedules on the critical path.
• Contribute to process and design enhancements that can result in more efficient scheduling across School Assessment.
• Identify and help manage risks and incidents related to schedule.
• Facilitate project-specific Post Project Review process.

In addition, you will possess the following skills:

• Strong communication skills and able to facilitate large meetings and negotiating across teams.
• You are a self-motivated learner with a willingness to learn new and existing offerings across Pearson School Assessment.
• You have positive relationship building and business partnership skills; you collaborate well with project team members for the lifecycle of the project.

What experience you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree is desirable but relatable experience in a similar role is essential.
• Previous experience working in project administration is required.
• Scheduling experience is preferred.
• A background with Smartsheet is highly preferred.
• A background in assessment is preferred.
• Experience analyzing data, following processes and procedures, and collaborating with others.

What can Pearson offer you?

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the Colorado, California, Washington State, New York State and New York City laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:

The full-time salary range is between $63,000 - $73,000.

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.

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What to expect from Pearson

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Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We want a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We strive for a workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities.

To learn more about Pearson’s commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, navigate to: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Pearson.

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Job: PROJECT/PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL\_TIME

Workplace Type: Remote

Req ID: 16288

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