Initiative Delivery Lead

Stellic is growing, and we're looking for an Initiative Delivery Lead to own end-to-end delivery of strategic initiatives across a portfolio of university partners. This isn't project coordination — it's program ownership. You're the person who looks across everything a partner has in motion, understands how each piece connects, and makes sure it all lands. ABOUT US We're building a future where every student can move through their education with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Our platform transforms the student experience, giving them the tools they need to make the right decisions about their degree plans, track their journey, and build an education and career path that's truly their own. Stellic is a fast-growing startup backed by leading social impact investors, partnering with top institutions like Cornell, Columbia, UVA, and Ohio State to support over 1 million students across 7 countries. As we scale to serve more universities worldwide, we remain deeply committed to this mission, driven by our values, and committed to building a high-performance team that's here to make a lasting difference on both students' lives and higher education. ABOUT YOU You don't wait for clarity — you create it. A partner walks in with a goal like "we want better student outcomes" and you walk out with a scoped initiative, defined success metrics, clear owners, and a finish line everyone agrees on. You hold delivery together across competing priorities and multiple concurrent workstreams, and when one thing shifts, you immediately map the downstream impact on everything else in flight. You think at the program level, not just the project level. You care more about what a project is actually accomplishing than about checking it off a list — and that comes through in how you show up for partners, how you build relationships, and how you handle the hard conversations. You hold yourself and others to their commitments without damaging the relationships that make the work possible. AS OUR INITIATIVE DELIVERY LEAD, YOU WILL OWN - Initiative Planning: Turn partner goals into concrete, actionable initiatives with defined scope, sequenced milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, resources, and exit criteria. Make "done" unambiguous before the work begins rather than after. - Program-Level Execution: Manage a portfolio of simultaneous partner implementations, tracking overall program health across workstreams — not just individual project status. When something shifts in one area, you understand the ripple effects and respond at the program level. Delivery outcomes are always front and center: initiatives on time, on scope, high partner confidence, and a delivery NPS that reflects the quality of the work. - Platform Fluency: Build genuine knowledge of the Stellic platform and how our partners are using it — not just what it does, but why it matters. That fluency is what lets you stay credible in implementation conversations and be a real partner in the room. - Partner Communications: Own project health and partner communications, both internal and partner-facing, in close partnership with the Partner Strategy Lead. Keep everyone informed and confident at every level, from campus project managers to exec sponsors. No one should ever have to ask where things stand. - Cross-Functional Coordination: Work closely with Product Delivery Leads and bring the right internal stakeholders into the conversation at the right time. Reduce escalations by building context ahead of problems and move things forward through influence and trust. - Risk, Resourcing, and Accountability: Proactively manage risk and resourcing. Know when to escalate, how to prioritize, and what tradeoffs make the most sense. Hold partners and internal teams accountable to their commitments, and handle those conversations with care. - Partner Advocacy: Keep the partner's voice at the center and advocate for what they need across the organization. TO BE SUCCESSFUL, YOU SHOULD HAVE - Proven ex