ETS
Technical Project Consultant
🇺🇸 Remote - Princeton, NJ
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Project Management
🗓️ January 4th, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
ETS is hiring a Technical Project Consultant who will plan, schedule, and control project activities to meet deliverables, performance, cost, and time objectives. The role involves hands-on management of multiple projects, collaborating with stakeholders to mitigate risks and resolve issues, and ensuring timely delivery aligned with business goals.
Highlights
- Lead project setup, planning, scheduling, and execution to deliver products, services, and methods within time, cost, and quality constraints.
- Act as a single point of contact for issue mitigation, risk management, and escalation across teams.
- Collaborate across ETS teams and domains to meet business commitments and project goals.
- Manage project communications, documentation, and stakeholder updates throughout project lifecycle.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Operational Testing (OT) activities.
- Require 10+ years of project or product management experience with comprehensive knowledge of project management and SDLC methodologies.
- Intermediate to advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Access, PowerPoint, Project, and Excel.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience.
- Strong written, verbal communication, and negotiation skills to influence and motivate project teams.
- Responsible for managing project budgets, timelines, risks, and resource allocation to ensure successful completion.
Technical Project Consultant Full Description
Technical Project Consultant
- Job Level : Any
- Level of Education : BA/BS
- Job Type : Full-Time/Regular
- Date Updated : 01/02/2026
- Years of Experience : Not Applicable
- Will this position have direct reports? : No
- Salary : $ USD Annually
Job Description
About ETS:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
Under minimal direction from the Director or Executive Director, the Technical Project Consultant (TPC) is responsible for set up, planning, scheduling and controlling of project/initiative activities to achieve deliverables, performance, cost and time objectives and business benefits for a given scope of work, while using resources efficiently and effectively. The TPC assists their respective management in monitoring the quality of deliverables and staff productivity. This is a hands-on role that is deeply involved in the daily operations, goals, and troubleshooting activities of the system within the department. This role is committed to successful and timely delivery across the organization. The TPC may oversee and coordinate multiple projects and services, manage large-scale, multi-functional projects to completion. The TPC may also be responsible for managing day-to-day operational activities for any system.
The TPC is accountable for ensuring initiatives/projects assigned to them are successfully completed in a manner that meets business expectations and the success metrics established at the onset of the effort. The TPC is an important and highly visible role both within across ETS. The TPC will often require negotiating with multiple stakeholders to resolve issues related to project scope, schedule, budget and quality.
The TPC is accountable for successfully executing all aspects of the project or initiative including the overall plan, schedule and in negotiating/navigating the organization and ETS landscape. Projects are often complex and require exceptional management, issue identification, risk mitigation and negotiation skills. The TPC must lead their project teams and, at times other staff, in overcoming roadblocks and barriers that may impact project success. The TPC will be expected to work closely with their Project Owner to anticipate/identify and resolve gaps that may potentially impact the planning and execution of their projects. The TPC must manage project risk by performing roles of the Project Owner, Project Manager as necessary.
Primary Responsibilities:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
Under minimal direction from the Director or Executive Director, the Technical Project Consultant (TPC) is responsible for set up, planning, scheduling and controlling of project/initiative activities to achieve deliverables, performance, cost and time objectives and business benefits for a given scope of work, while using resources efficiently and effectively. The TPC assists their respective management in monitoring the quality of deliverables and staff productivity. This is a hands-on role that is deeply involved in the daily operations, goals, and troubleshooting activities of the system within the department. This role is committed to successful and timely delivery across the organization. The TPC may oversee and coordinate multiple projects and services, manage large-scale, multi-functional projects to completion. The TPC may also be responsible for managing day-to-day operational activities for any system.
The TPC is accountable for ensuring initiatives/projects assigned to them are successfully completed in a manner that meets business expectations and the success metrics established at the onset of the effort. The TPC is an important and highly visible role both within across ETS. The TPC will often require negotiating with multiple stakeholders to resolve issues related to project scope, schedule, budget and quality.
The TPC is accountable for successfully executing all aspects of the project or initiative including the overall plan, schedule and in negotiating/navigating the organization and ETS landscape. Projects are often complex and require exceptional management, issue identification, risk mitigation and negotiation skills. The TPC must lead their project teams and, at times other staff, in overcoming roadblocks and barriers that may impact project success. The TPC will be expected to work closely with their Project Owner to anticipate/identify and resolve gaps that may potentially impact the planning and execution of their projects. The TPC must manage project risk by performing roles of the Project Owner, Project Manager as necessary.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Implement Technology and Research strategy consistent with individual business unit goals.
- Participate in the creation of technical project teams.
- Provide learning and development opportunities by sharing Subject Matter Expertise.
- Anticipate, assess, and mitigate issues, coordinating across teams as a single point of contact as necessary and escalate when necessary.
- Define, organize, guide, coordinate, monitor and execute the work effort to deliver new products, services and methods to business customers within defined constraints for time, cost, quality/scope
- Accurately forecast time, resource needs and work estimates for required work.
- Effectively collaborate across Coalition, ETS teams and Domains to mitigate risks and solve problems in order to meet business commitments.
- Regularly update leadership on progress and status of assigned projects and ensure production goals are successfully met.
- Oversee and manage the assignment and completion of staff projects, task, and duties.
- Apply project management skills to perform ongoing review of program status; identify risks along with mitigation plans.Communicate effectively in writing and through verbal communications, face to face and through collaborative communication tools.
- Document project progress including implementation, timelines, issues, risks, and successes to maintain program course.
- Be able to communicate effectively to a wide range of people (including presentations/meetings), including effective and timely escalation when necessary.
- Identify and flag changes that need to be addressed. Changes may be internal to IT or broader outside of IT. Identify appropriate change owner/group and effectively communicate the change to the responsible individual or group.
- Client Management and project fulfillment while maintaining budget.
- Close the project, evaluate project success, document lessons learned and release project resources.
- Support UAT and OT.
- Adhere to ethical standards and comply with the laws and regulations applicable to your job function.
Process Outputs and Deliverables:
- Technology initiatives properly aligned to programs/products or strategy
- System plan and reporting
- Risk, issue, change and decision logs
- Resource skills requirements
- Deployed projects, programs/products or applications
- Project related communications
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Experience and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired is necessary.
- This position requires 10+ years of product or project management, software development management or management of progressively responsible program.
- Excellent project management and organizational skills.
- Comprehensive knowledge of -- and extensive experience in -- project management and SDLC methodologies.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Access, PowerPoint, Project and Excel) is essential.
- Knowledge of ETS policies and procedures is desired along with the ability to interpret, apply and\or explain policies and procedures.\
- Ability to plan, initiates actions, establish and meet deadlines in an individual or team environment to complete projects.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail are essential.
- Understand relevant technologies and processes and be able to influence the work being done in the organization (e.g., team, group, vendor).
- Keep up with current technology trend and best practices and be able to introduce innovations.
- Know enough about technology to be able to challenge the work being done in the project.
- Understand solutions and the teams' work. Effective management of the work and budget as appropriate for the role.
- Lead, motivate, and set a vision for the project teams.
- Proactively manage the project and the people as it relates to the project so that it meets the desired outcome.
- Demonstrate domain expertise.
- Demonstrates expertise in Project Management principles and/or Agile/Waterfall SDLC methodologies.
ETS is mission driven and action oriented
- We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning.
- We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. Â In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth!
- As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. Â At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you!
ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in creating a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.
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