Position: Project & Resource Manager
Department: Strategic Communications & Marketing
Type of Position: Full-time Salaried
Exemption Status: Exempt
Work Schedule, Hours per week: Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week
Opportunity for hybrid schedule: Yes
Starting Salary Range: $73,109.00-$96,115.00 and determined based on relevant years of work experience provided on application and resume.
Position Summary: The Project & Resource Manager supports JCCC by overseeing project intake, resource allocation, and workflow for marketing and creative initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with institutional goals and brand standards. This role defines cross-functional teams, monitors project progress, identifies risks, and implements solutions to maintain smooth operations. The incumbent also analyzes workload and performance data to inform capacity planning, process improvements, and overall team efficiency.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in business, communications, marketing, project or operations management or related field.
- Minimum of 6 years as a working project manager or marketing professional in an enterprise environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience or certification in project management or creative operations is a plus.
Position Details: Job duties include but are not limited to:
- Resource Allocation and Capacity Management:
- Evaluate incoming project briefs and work requests to assess scope, identify required tools, and establish realistic production timelines.
- Strategically assign cross-functional teams based on individual expertise, project complexity, and real-time bandwidth.
- Manage a “fast-track” intake process for high-priority executive-level requests, ensuring urgent needs are met without compromising existing timelines.
- Actively balance competing priorities to ensure delivery commitments are met while maintaining team sustainability and quality.
- Project Management and Process Leadership:
- Serve as the primary owner and lead administrator of the department’s project management tools and systems, ensuring that they remain the single source of truth for departmental productivity.
- Lead status meetings and maintain a centralized end-to-end production schedule for active initiatives to provide high-level visibility and transparency to work volume.
- Establish standard workflows and facilitate ongoing training and support to ensure project management process adoption.
- Continuously refine workflows, intake processes, and status reporting to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Maintain a clear understanding of active project status; identify and resolve issues that threaten timely project completion early to ensure an effective and efficient availability of department resources.
- Project Execution:
- Monitor project communication and timelines throughout the production lifecycle.
- Proactively identify bottlenecks, risks, or scope changes that could impact delivery.
- Develop and implement contingency plans for high priority or at-risk projects. Ensure final output aligns with the project brief, and required assets are completed on deadline.
- Workflow Optimization:
- Analyze workload, utilization, and time-to-completion to identify trends and constraints.
- Identify process inefficiencies and recommend data-driven improvements to increase delivery and quality.
- Forecast future resource needs based on demand patterns and historical performance.
- Provide leadership with actionable insights to staffing decisions, prioritization, and long-term capacity planning.
*Other duties as assigned.
To be considered for this position we will require an application, resume, and cover letter.
*Unofficial transcripts are required for all Adjunct faculty and Faculty positions.
Benefits Category
For Full‑time Employees:
- Health insurance with some employer paid options.
- Life insurance & AD&D (employer provided)
- Retirement plans (403(b), 457(b), and KPERS)
- Employer paid 8% contribution into a 403(b) no match required
- Paid time off (vacation, sick, personal, and floating holidays)
- 14 days of paid holidays
- Full tuition reduction for JCCC credit courses (for employee and eligible dependents)
- Tuition reimbursement / assistance for non‑JCCC courses for employee
- Free access to the Gym on campus for all employees and dependents
- Discount to the Hiersteiner Child Development Center
- And many more!
About JCCC:
Established in 1969, Johnson County Community College is dedicated to transforming lives and strengthening communities through learning. Located in Overland Park, Kansas, JCCC has enjoyed a national reputation for educational excellence and student success for more than 50 years. That's five decades dedicated to smaller class sizes, more resources and a thriving campus culture – not to mention our competitive tuition rates and extracurricular experiences that transcend the norm.
Mission: JCCC inspires learning to transform lives and strengthen communities.
Vision: JCCC will be an innovative leader in equitable student access, learning and success.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
JCCC is an equal opportunity employer and equal access institution. JCCC does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, religion, marital status, parental status, military status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or other factors that cannot be lawfully considered in its programs and activities, which includes employment and admissions, in accordance with Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Executive Order 11246, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act, the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002, the Kansas Acts Against Discrimination and all other applicable civil rights and nondiscrimination laws.
Inquiries concerning JCCC's compliance with its nondiscrimination policies (including Title IX, Title VI and Section 504 inquiries) may be referred to a Title IX Coordinator (TitleIX@jccc.edu), or Director of Human Resources, or the Dean of Students and Learner Engagement at Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, KS 66210, 913-469-8500; or to Office for Civil Rights, Kansas City Office, U.S. Department of Education, One Petticoat Lane, 1010 Walnut Street, Suite 320, Kansas City, MO 64106, Telephone: 816-268-0550, Facsimile: 816-268-0559, Email to: OCR.KansasCity@ed.gov.
Disclosure:
If you need any assistance throughout the search process, please reach out to the HR@jccc.edu. In accordance with the college policy, finalists for this position will be subject to criminal background investigations. Individual hiring departments at JCCC may elect to administer pre-employment tests, which are relevant to essential job functions as part of the applicant selection/hiring process. Many departments require those selected for hire to submit a certified transcript for all degrees obtained. For full consideration, applicants are encouraged to apply prior to the review date listed in posting.
Duties and responsibilities, as required by business necessity, may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing. Scheduling, shift assignments and work location may be changed at any time, as required by business necessity.
If you are an applicant requesting assistance or a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact the Office of Human Resources at 913-469-3877, or email HR@jccc.edu.
