Compensation:
$60,841 - $73,009
Compensation Type:
Salary
Employment Type:
Regular
Grade:
E05
Position Summary
CNM Ingenuity's Hyperspace Challenge Program is not your average initiative-it's a launchpad for innovation, a connector of cosmic ideas with real-world impact, and a fast-evolving hub of entrepreneurship, education, and human-centered design. We're looking for a visionary Senior Program Manager who thrives in creative chaos, dances through ambiguity, and leads with curiosity, strategy, and style.
This is your chance to join a mission that blends government insight, space tech, entrepreneurial thinking, and community co-creation-all while designing programs and events that are out of this world.
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Duties & Responsibilities
You'll be the operations and strategy engine behind the Hyperspace Challenge Program. Your days will be filled with planning one-of-a-kind events, building relationships across sectors, making data-driven decisions, and bringing bold ideas to life-on time, on budget, and with flair.
- Lead program design and delivery across multiple initiatives and projects with strategic insight and operational excellence.
- Design monthly webinars and community-centered design workshops, education opportunities and summits-each one unique and crafted to meet audience needs with creativity and relevance.
- Take initiative and ownership, navigating ambiguity with a steady hand and a flexible mindset.
- Serve as primary liaison with local, state, and national stakeholders. You're not just networking-you're speed-networking with purpose.
- Build and execute communications and outreach plans that get people talking-and showing up.
- Track progress, manage budgets, and ensure alignment with stakeholder goals using your top-tier PM skills.
- Innovate constantly. Every program and event should feel tailor-made.
- Collaborate with instructors, external contractors, internal teams, and community leaders to co-create programs that make an impact.
- Design deliverables using a human-centered approach.
- Measure success, report results, and adapt programs based on real-time feedback and metrics.
Minimum Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's Degree and five (5) years of experience related to the duties and responsibilities.
Preferences:
You're not afraid to launch big ideas. You think systemically and act intentionally. You love building relationships, and you bring structure to complexity without losing creativity.
- You've got solid experience in program or project management, especially in the realms of government, tech, education, or startups.
- You understand space technology-or at least you're excited to learn fast and work with those who do.
- You bring a human-centered, community-driven approach to everything you lead.
- You've got the entrepreneurial mindset: initiative, flexibility, hustle, and optimism.
- You're a natural event architect-from webinars to summits, every experience you create stands out.
- You know how to manage budgets, build partnerships, and communicate with diverse audiences.
- You're comfortable wearing many hats-and even designing a few yourself.
Department: CNM Ingenuity
Reports to: Program Director, Hyperspace
EEO STATEMENT:
As an EEO employer, Central New Mexico Community College will not discriminate in our employment practices based on an applicant's race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, serious medical condition or status as a protected veteran or spousal affiliation. Central New Mexico Community College hires only U.S. citizens and individuals lawfully authorized to work in the U.S.