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That respect shows up most clearly in how a project gets managed. We're looking for a Higher Education Project Manager to join our Culver City office, someone with 10+ years of experience leading teams and managing higher education projects. You know campus clients: facilities teams, user groups, departmental leadership, and the approval paths that come with them, and you're comfortable steering a project through all of it. K-12 or healthcare experience is a plus but not required. We'd also love someone who enjoys the business development side, building client relationships, spotting the next opportunity, and helping win work in addition to delivering it.\nYou'll lead projects through every phase and help the team work effectively and efficiently, coordinating scope, communication, contracts, budgets, and schedules across client and consultant groups.\nAt Cuningham, everything comes back to one idea: design a better world with deep respect for the real one people live in. As our next Project Manager, you're the one who turns that into reality on the ground, keeping the people, the details, and the budget all moving in the same direction.\n Higher Education project experience is strongly preferredfor this role.\nWhat You'd Be Doing:\nLeading small to medium project teams through every phase, keeping everyone focused on each project's goals and success metrics.\nBuilding high-performing teams with your Project Executive and project leaders, matching work to each person's strengths and growth goals, and keeping the team motivated, collaborative, and accountable.\nShaping scope, deliverables, schedules, and fees into complete proposals with your Project Executive and project leaders.\nSupporting your design and technical leads as they deliver coordinated packages across multi-discipline, multi-phase projects.\nKeeping work plans, labor plans, schedules, and team tasks current.\nOwning the project budget and financial performance in Vantagepoint, lining up tasks with staff time, and pursuing additional services before costs are incurred.\nManaging day-to-day client relationships with your Project Executive, reviewing budget, schedule, and scope with clients, and running internal and external meetings, including campus stakeholder and user group sessions.\nIdentifying and managing risk throughout the project, and raising issues with your Project Executive early.\nAdministering Owner and Consultant contracts, and keeping responsible oversight of any technical submissions you sign and seal.\nSupporting Market Leaders with staffing decisions and revenue projections.\nHelping grow our higher education work in Southern California by taking part in or leading pursuits, including proposal and interview content.\nUsing MS Office, Bluebeam, AIA Contracts, MS Project (or similar), and Deltek Vantagepoint day to day, and staying familiar with Revit/BIM 360, Miro, and Microsoft Teams.\nWhat We Look For:\nArchitecture License is a plus but not required\n10+ years of project management experience in architecture, engineering, or construction, managing projects from proposal through delivery.\nHigher education project experience is strongly preferred (e.g., academic and classroom buildings, student housing, student life, research and lab facilities, campus renovations).\nK-12 and/or healthcare project experience a plus, not required.\nBusiness development experiencepreferred: client relationship building, pursuit strategy, proposals, and interviews.\nBachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, construction management, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.\nPMP certification also welcome but not required.\nDemonstrated experience managing project budgets, schedules, scope, and contracts across multi-discipline teams.\nStrong client-facing communication skills and comfort leading conversations on scope, schedule, and budget.\nProficiency with MS Office, Bluebeam, AIA Contracts, and MS Project (or similar); 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