As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning’s family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.
Job DescriptionThe Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for leading and delivering strategic technology initiatives that modernize Unitek's IT environment and enable business growth. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines enterprise project management with technical execution, working closely with Infrastructure, Security, Applications, and business teams to successfully deliver transformational projects.
The ideal candidate is equally comfortable presenting project status to executive leadership, coordinating cross-functional teams, and rolling up their sleeves to participate in project implementation when needed. This role will serve as a key driver of Unitek's internal IT transformation while ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business priorities.
Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership
- Lead multiple enterprise IT projects from initiation through post-production support.
- Develop and maintain project plans, budgets, schedules, resource plans, risk registers, and executive status reports.
- Coordinate work across Infrastructure, Security, Applications, Digital Strategy, vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Manage project scope, dependencies, risks, issues, and executive communications.
- Facilitate project governance meetings and drive accountability across project teams.
- Partner with department leaders to prioritize initiatives based on business value and organizational readiness.
Technical Leadership & Execution
- Actively participate in project implementation activities where appropriate.
- Assist with solution planning, technical coordination, testing, cutover planning, and production deployments.
- Work alongside engineers and technical staff to remove roadblocks and accelerate delivery.
- Develop implementation documentation, standards, and operational transition plans.
- Identify opportunities to improve IT processes through automation and standardization.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 7+ years of experience leading enterprise IT projects.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft enterprise technologies, cloud infrastructure, endpoint management, and identity platforms.
- Experience delivering infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise application projects.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
- Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
Preferred
- PMP certification.
- Experience with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Microsoft 365, Azure, and Windows enterprise management.
- Experience with higher education technology.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS implementations such as SIS, ERP, CRM, or collaboration platforms.
- Familiarity with Agile and hybrid project delivery methodologies
We Offer:
- Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
- 2 Weeks’ starting Vacation per year. Increasing based on years of service with company
- 12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holiday
- Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x’s your annual salary
- Leadership development and training for career advancement
- Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100% depending on the program
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 7+ years of experience leading enterprise IT projects.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft enterprise technologies, cloud infrastructure, endpoint management, and identity platforms.
- Experience delivering infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise application projects.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
- Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
- PMP certification.
- Experience with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Microsoft 365, Azure, and Windows enterprise management.
- Experience with higher education technology.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS implementations such as SIS, ERP, CRM, or collaboration platforms.
- Familiarity with Agile and hybrid project delivery methodologies.
What We Do
Founded in 1992, Unitek Learning is the parent company for five distinguished learning institutions in the areas of healthcare, nursing, and emergency medical services. Unitek College is one of the foremost healthcare and nursing colleges in California and Nevada. Unitek EMT provides comprehensive EMT and EMS training to hundreds of professionals every year. Eagle Gate College and Provo College in Utah and Idaho have a singular focus — to provide students with the knowledge, training, and skills they need to create a rewarding career in the ever-expanding world of healthcare. Our latest addition, Brookline College, offers diploma, Bachelor, and Master level education in Arizona and New Mexico. Through our subsidiary schools, Unitek Learning has helped students, working professionals and organizations achieve their goals for more than 25 years. From first contact to after completion, we help each individual overcome obstacles with support from our industry-experienced instructors and student-focused staff. Unitek offers a real-world education in a wide range of in-demand healthcare career fields. Our training is relevant and dynamic, and continually updated to answer the changing demands of the students and organizations we serve. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek Learning is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career! We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.
