Advanced Specialist, Project Management

Pearson is a leading education company, and they are seeking an Advanced Specialist in Project Management. This role involves leading the delivery of digital courseware, managing project requirements and resources, and ensuring all components are produced on time, within budget, and to specification.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of content and components for assigned projects, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and quality results
• Build and coordinate workflow schedules, budgets, and resource plans across development workstreams, including internal and external contributors
• Manage deliverables from vendors and contributors, track progress against milestones, and participate in production meetings
• Identify and resolve operational risks and workflow issues, maintaining transparent communication and project momentum
• Ensure deliverables meet quality, accessibility, and readiness standards at each stage
• Partner with the Content Strategy & Delivery Manager and Editorial Development team to maintain strategic alignment
• Support platform migration and digital delivery efforts and drive workflow efficiency and process improvements

Requirements:

• Leads the delivery of complete digital courseware, ensuring all components—text, media, interactives, assessments, and final files—are produced on time, within budget, and to specification
• Coordinates editorial, learning design, media, vendor, and QA teams
• Manages project requirements and resources
• Accountable for project execution, tracking milestones, and handoff to publishing or platform teams
• Scheduling, budget management, risk mitigation, problem-solving, communication
• Lead end-to-end delivery of content and components for assigned projects, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and quality results
• Build and coordinate workflow schedules, budgets, and resource plans across development workstreams, including internal and external contributors
• Manage deliverables from vendors and contributors, track progress against milestones, and participate in production meetings
• Identify and resolve operational risks and workflow issues, maintaining transparent communication and project momentum
• Ensure deliverables meet quality, accessibility, and readiness standards at each stage
• Partner with the Content Strategy & Delivery Manager and Editorial Development team to maintain strategic alignment
• Support platform migration and digital delivery efforts and drive workflow efficiency and process improvements
• Oversees entire project lifecycle, pre-dev through post-production
• Leverages understanding of domain/discipline specific product and content requirements to ensure project delivery aligns with instructional goals
• All content roles, CPMs, Product Managers, Platform/Publishing teams
• On-time, on-budget delivery; quality and workflow compliance, accuracy of project tracking and reporting supported by data