Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. This is our mission at Make-A-Wish America. The Senior Project Manager is a key contributor to the mission by prioritizing, planning, initiating, and managing organizational projects and acting as primary relationship manager in support of varying National Office departments. Leading and guiding the work of multiple cross-functional teams and 3rd party vendors to achieve clearly defined results operating on budget, within an agreed time and specifications for each project. Supporting program-level visibility and management to ensure alignment across projects that ladder up to large scale deliverables.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Acts as primary liaison between business and operational teams to prioritize and meet the strategic needs of the business functions they support.
- Leads a project team to devise and maintain a workable scheme to accomplish the business need that the project was undertaken to address.
- Manages project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
- Develops and updates project plans including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing.
- Schedules and facilitates meetings related to projects.
- Tracks milestones and deliverables. Collects and analyzes project information to determine where the project stands and take corrective action to eliminate negative deviations from the plan.
- Identifies, analyzes, and responds to risks over the course of the project – including minimizing the consequences of adverse events and maximizing the results of positive events.
- Collaborates effectively with all parts of the organization involved on a project.
- Encourages and enables resources to work together as a team to accomplish the project and depend on each other for success.
- Challenges project team members to think critically about deliverables and their status, employing a “trust but verify” method to ensure alignment on project health.
- Manages interactions between the customer, any appropriate external organizations, and the rest of the project team to achieve good customer relations where both parties are enthusiastic about the relationship.
- Performs other related job duties, as assigned.
- Lead Project Managers and Coordinators assigned as staff to ensure their success in delivering completed projects on time and on budget. Serve as a mentor to junior and mid-level PMO staff, engaging them in professional development opportunities and providing guidance on work in flight.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree required.
Skills/Experience:
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management and project life-cycle processes.
- Demonstrated professional written and oral communication skills, communicating project related status information effectively, creating a project communications plan, and exhibiting active listening skills.
- Demonstrated successful problem-solving abilities and analytical skills.
- Engages effectively with professionals at all levels of the organization.
- Organizes work, prioritizes, and delegates to meet deadlines, and makes timely decisions with sound judgment.
- Demonstrated proficiency in general management practices including finance, accounting, strategic and tactical planning, organizational behavior, managing work relationships through motivation, delegation, supervision, conflict management, and managing personal responsibilities through personal time management and stress management.
- Minimum of 5+ years project management experience in a technical environment or demonstrated project management skills including project planning, control, change management, and risk management.
- Program management experience desired.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications required, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project (or another Project Management tool).
- Knowledge of Workfront, MS Teams, and/or Smartsheet a plus.
Working Conditions
- Work in an office environment.
- May require work outside a traditional Monday – Friday work week, and outside normal business hours, as projects require.
Compensation/Benefits:
- Competitive compensation with annual incentive potential
- Comprehensive benefit package: Medical, Vision, Dental, Wellness *100% employer paid for employee*
- Health and Flexible Spending Account Options
- Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance *100% employer paid for employee*
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- 15 PTO days, 10 Sick Days, 10 Paid Holidays, and 2 Personal Days
- Maternity Leave
- Educational Tuition Assistance
- Employee Awards and Recognition Programs
- Individual and Leadership Development
- Discounts and special offers for theme parks, events, hotels, concerts, and movie tickets
How to Apply:
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Listing Stats
Post Date:
Nov 2 2019
Active Until:
Dec 2 2019
Hiring Organization:
Make-A-Wish America
industry:
Nonprofit