Heather Sternshein

Partnering with UNC System schools to expand educational access. Everyone deserves to benefit from the power of higher education.

Role
Program Director at Project Kitty Hawk
Location
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Heather Sternshein

I scale higher education revenue and enrollment through high-trust university…

Experience

  1. Program Director

    Project Kitty Hawk

    May 2023 — Present · Durham, NC, US

    The Program Director leads the design, development, and deployment of academic programs delivered by PKH (Project Kitty Hawk) for institutions of higher education. In this role, I collaborate with PKH teams, partners, and institutions’ academic faculty and staff to support the successful launch, maintenance, and growth of online academic programs focused on serving the adult learner. Serve as an academic liaison for PKH with partner institutions and instructional design team. Work closely with institutions’ faculty to ensure successful design and development of programs and courses to meet the needs of the adult learner, including collaboration with publishers, academic resource vendors, etc, as necessary. Work closely and communicate effectively with partners, program chairs, and faculty to ensure successful execution, maintenance, and growth of academic programs. Assist with scheduling and capacity planning of courses and faculty with institutions’ program chair/director of academic programs. Collaborate across PKH to ensure a best-in-class student experience including work with faculty recruiting, business development, student success, project managers, product owners, and data & technology teams. Identify relevant trends and best practices in online adult education for academic programs. Lead ongoing, term-by-term academic program reviews by monitoring core analytics and other key metrics seeking continuous improvement. Develop annual plans for refreshing/revising/updating academic programs. Support the development of a long-term strategy for academic programs including assuring it is aligned with any product and service functions, as well as, able to support the most critical and scalable needs of the institutions and workforce partners in relation to academic programs and activities. Work closely with the PKH digital and product team on leveraging technology to improve and enhance academic program design, development, and deployment.

Education

  • Swarthmore College

    BA

  • Brandeis University

    PhD

Skills

  • Product Management
  • Project Management
  • Neuroscience
  • Life Sciences
  • Psychology
  • Experimental Design
  • Matlab
  • Statistics
  • Data Analysis
  • Research
  • Science
  • Teaching
  • Writing
  • Spss
  • Public Speaking
  • Editing
  • Management
  • Lifesciences
  • Higher Education
  • Scientific Writing
  • Cell Biology
  • Molecular Biology

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