This is an interim backfill role to cover for an employee who will be out on parental leave. The duration of the assignment is targeted for 12 months starting in August. However, the start and end dates may change.
Recognized expert in managing projects with a demonstrated record of success on highly complex and risky, business critical programs. Responsible for leading these programs from initiation through closure to achieve the program’s strategic objectives. Expected to help align and shape organizational and strategic decisions at the senior management level that affect program goals, and must regularly coordinate and manage program activities at the senior leadership level.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Responsible for all of the program activities related to program definition, program benefits delivery, and program closure - incorporating change management throughout. May include management of program-related work that is part of ongoing operations. Includes integrated project scheduling, budgeting and forecasting, resource planning, contracting, risk and issue management, integrated change control and release management.
- Responsible for the program/function team management; assesses staffing capacity and capability needed to support strategic priorities; monitors staff deployment and workload across the program/function team.
- Establishes processes and procedures for maintaining program oversight and decision-making support for policies and practices throughout the course of the program.
- Accountable for ensuring program complies with established enterprise portfolio management governance and processes including intake, quarterly reviews, and annual planning.
- This role manages people and is responsible for hiring the talent needed to achieve our goals, ensuring successful employee onboarding, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, integrating project and change management, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, and recognizing achievement and lessons learned.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s or other advanced degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
Skills/Experience:
- We believe that energized people, working well together, fueled by great leadership in an inclusive environment in which they thrive, will do phenomenal things.
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Demonstrated complex program management skills and a successful track record of leading or managing multiple projects simultaneously. Includes measuring project results, and creating dashboards/scorecards. including project definition, planning / scoping the work, establishing governance and stakeholders, organizing work meaningfully, designing appropriate solutions, implementing the solutions, managing change, communicating, and monitoring for ultimate impact/effectiveness.
- Demonstrated excellence in influence and leadership, ability to build trust, is a team leader and player who motivates and educates other team members and understands the value of interpersonal relationship building.
- Strong leadership skills, initiative, persistence, diplomacy, pragmatism, and flexibility.
- Strong management skills, balanced strategic and tactical focus, and initiative.
- Ability to reconcile multiple competing viewpoints and often to negotiate across stakeholders.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Aug 11 2019
Active Until:
Sep 11 2019
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit