Program manager team lead

Job Add PM team lead- Hyper Island Programs AB

The only constant in this world is change and it is happening at an ever increasing rate due to exponential, technological development.

At Hyper Island we train individuals and organisations to thrive in this ongoing change - within the areas of technology, business and design.

Hyper Island today is a global organisation with campuses and offices around the world. Yet we remain true to our original vision to empower people to shape the future.

Our learning approach is based on constructionsim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructionism_(learning_theory)): at Hyper Island we learn by doing and making stuff.

Our long term programs are higher vocational educations and funded by the Swedish state (Yrkeshögskola). Our task is to make the participants real world ready, to make sure they are equipped to work within the digital industry after graduation.

With the public funding of our programs, we’re set up to ‘to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.’

Our strategic goal during the next five years is to democratise our vocational education even more in order to reach more diverse groups of people with our experience based learning journeys.

You will lead a PM team of five to seven program managers. You will be part of a core-team of three other team leads, reporting directly to the Head of School.

Together we will work for interdisciplinary learning experiences between all our different programs and fields of specialisation, making our learners real world ready. The programs we’re currently running are:

- AI Business Consultant
- Business Developer on campus
- Business Developer distance learning
- Content Developer
- Data Analyst
- Design Lead
- Digital Creative
- Frontend Developer
- Motion Designer
- Motion Creative
- UX Designer
- XR Creative Developer (from August 2022)


Main tasks:

As a PM Team Lead you will be responsible for the day to day operations for one of the Program Manager teams in Stockholm, through providing guidance, instructions and operational direction for the team members.

As the PM Team Lead you will play a key role in ensuring that the delivery operation of our vocational training programs in Stockholm are running in a smooth and efficient manner. Keeping the students’ interest at heart, but also ensuring that the quality, MYH www.myh.se requirements, and financial aspects are kept and well carried out. You will be a present and available manager, with four to seven Program Managers reporting directly to you. Your main task is to provide structures and processes to help your team to develop. That includes everything from collective on-boarding of new team members to building a culture of openness and trust in order to collaborate effectively to solve day-to-day problems arising with more than one thousand students. You are also acting as operational support of the Program manager team when needed without direct class responsibility (e.g. planning, leading and facilitating cross-class workshops and deliveries and ensuring alignment on HI assessment principles and quality framework).

The assignment is carried out based on the company's and business unit’s overall strategies, goals, values and priorities.

You will also be an coordinator and enabler of relationships from your team to other support functions and Hyper Island: with your peer PM Team Leads in Stockholm and Karlskrona and the Learning Partnership team lead, the Student Recruitment-, Support Services- and Research & Development team as well as with the Marketing- and Finance team

Formal requirements, experience and competence:

- Education: 2-3 years of higher education in a relevant field.
- 5 years of work-experience.
- Native/near native in English written and verbal. Swedish is a plus.
- At least 2 years of leadership experience in a formal management position with direct personnel responsibility or equal experience.
- Experience with designing, organising and delivering educational experiences. Preferably within vocational education.
- Solid experience in educational design and facilitation.
- Experience with change management.
- Excellent planning skills.
- Skills and interest in financial planning, execution and cost control.
- Excellent communication skills in all different settings and forms.


Terms

- You will report to the Head of School, Jörg Teichgraeber.
- Start during May or June 2022
- Location: Stockholm


The application deadline is April the 12th 2022. Please note that if we find the right candidate the application process may be closed earlier than stated as we will have an ongoing selection of candidates from when the job ad is first published.

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