Senior Project Manager

Location: Amman

Employment Type: Full-time

About Jo Academy

Jo Academy is a pioneering EdTech Company founded in 2014, offering a comprehensive digital learning platform across Jordan and the region. We serve diverse age groups through an integrated, interactive learning experience designed for national and international school students, as well as university learners.

Powered by AI and cutting-edge technologies, Jo Academy enables personalized and adaptive learning journeys that respond to different needs and learning styles. Today, we support over two million learners through thousands of interactive lessons and educational resources.

Jo Academy is a member of ULA Group, alongside ULA KSA, and contributes to a broader vision of integrating emerging technologies, such as AI-powered adaptive learning, AR/VR, and virtual schools, into the education ecosystem in the region and beyond.

Our Purpose

Jo Academy is driven by a clear purpose: to make education accessible, seamless, and engaging. Our mission focuses on increasing knowledge, building skills, and personalizing digital learning experiences. Through tech-enabled education, we are committed to empowering Arab learners, expanding their opportunities, and advancing digital education to better serve our community.

Our Values

At Jo Academy, we foster a culture of innovation, creativity, and impact. As a leader in the EdTech field, we are committed to delivering meaningful products and services that truly make a difference.

Job Purpose :

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of projects in Jo Academy. You will lead and negotiate scope, schedule, plan, risk, deployment, and communication for projects and initiatives, acting as both orchestrator and blocker-solver, from the ideation phase to production and beyond. You will establish order, enforce structured execution frameworks, and instill delivery discipline across teams to eliminate missed deadlines and operational ambiguity. In a nutshell: you're the engine driver who gets things done, wherever the work sits.

Key Responsibilities :

· Own end-to-end delivery across cross-functional teams, ensuring adherence to agreed scope, budget, and timeline.

· Define project scope, deliverables, and roles/responsibilities in collaboration with stakeholders and business partners.

· Build and maintain roadmaps, release plans, and dependency maps across all teams and proactively adjust plans based on performance insights and risk assessments.

· Milestone & Dependency Management: Map critical paths, manage cross-department dependencies, and rigorously track baseline schedules against actual performance to guarantee on-time delivery.

· Actively identify and remove blockers or conflicts that impact team velocity or deliverables.

· Maintain a strict change management process, assessing timeline and resource impacts before scope changes are approved.

· Escalate issues early and transparently to upper management and other relevant stakeholders

· Communicate proactively across operations, engineering, product, curriculum/content, marketing and business teams to align priorities, surface problems, and drive solutions.

· Oversee user acceptance testing (UAT), ensuring functionality meets business and user needs. Coordinate smooth handover to operations, support, and maintenance teams for post-launch success.

· Build and maintain dashboards and reports using data visualization tools to communicate progress to both technical and business audiences.

· Use objective data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and decisions.

Required Qualifications & Skills :

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

· Minimum 5 years of experience as a Project Manager in a software engineering or digital-content projects.

· Solid understanding of agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban), with a demonstrated record of driving teams to higher productivity and delivery predictability.

· Strong analytical skills, with a track record of using objective data and metrics to inform decisions.

· Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging across management levels, technical and non-technical audiences, and cross-team stakeholders.

· A proven track record of taking ad-hoc, disorganized team environments and turning them into structured, deadline-driven operations.

· Advanced expertise in project management tools (e.g., Jira, ClickUp, Asana) including building workflows, automation, and tracking boards.