Project/Program Manager (Interiors) - Campus Planning & Capital Projects - Enterprise Physical Operations

About the role

Serves as a key partner to senior leadership and acts as the owner’s representative for the university’s built-environment initiatives across campus, with a focus on interior environments, wayfinding, and campus signage systems.

Responsibilities

• Supervises a small team, assigns and monitors work, mentors staff, conducts site inspections, and ensures efficient use of resources across a large campus/building portfolio.
• Provides guidance related to interior scope coordination, signage standards, finishes, and furniture implementation.
• Manages interiors and signage scope on multiple facilities and capital projects from initiation through design, construction, and close-out, ensuring compliance with building codes, safety standards, budgets, and timelines.
• Oversees and manages multiple programs, develops, tracks, and analyzes KPIs, coordinates cross-functional teams, aligns with strategic priorities (including long-range/5–10-year planning), monitors performance, and recommends process improvements.
• Serves as primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders: prepares reports and updates, manages risks and issues, ensures timely resolution of obstacles, and fosters a high-performance team environment.
• Serves as the owner’s representative for the university’s built-environment initiatives across campus, with a focus on interior environments, wayfinding, and campus signage systems.
• Collaborates with architects, designers, user groups, and signage consultants to ensure functional, accessible, and cohesive interior environments.
• Supports senior leadership in project prioritization, future planning, expenditure approvals, and emergency repair/small-project oversight, including interior repair and refresh projects.
• Contributes to department initiatives, for example, workload leveling meetings, interior and signage design standard updates, program pilot efforts, and participation on the extended leadership team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or combination of education and/or experience may substitute for minimum education.
• Seven (7) years of experience in Interior Design and/or Interior Renovations.
• Higher Education, Medical School, Healthcare, or In Facilities Planning And Project Management (10 Years).

Qualifications

• Architectural Design, Design/Build, Renovation, Space Planning, And/Or Construction Management (7 Years).

Skills

• Not Applicable.

Benefits

• Personal: Up to 22 days of vacation, 10 recognized holidays, and sick time.
• Competitive health insurance packages with priority appointments and lower copays/coinsurance.
• Take advantage of our free Metro transit U-Pass for eligible employees.
• WashU provides eligible employees with a defined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Savings Plan, which combines employee contributions and university contributions starting at 7%.
• Wellness: Wellness challenges, annual health screenings, mental health resources, mindfulness programs and courses, employee assistance program (EAP), financial resources, access to dietitians, and more!
• Family: We offer 4 weeks of caregiver leave to bond with your new child. Family care resources are also available for your continued childcare needs. For policies, detailed benefits, and eligibility, please visit: https://hr.wustl.edu/benefits/.

Pay

$84,200.00 - $148,500.00 / Annually

Schedule

Normal office environment. Physical Effort: Typically sitting at a desk or table. Typically standing or walking. Repetitive wrist, hand, or finger movement. Ability to move to on and off-campus locations.