Senior Project Manager - Deans Office

Responsibilities

• Lead full scale initiatives from concept to implementation for system-wide impact, including planning, overseeing, and monitoring projects to ensure progress and deliverables to senior leaders.
• Act as a primary project contact/liaison to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives.
• Direct multiple stakeholders to collaborate on project scope, deliverables, goals, risks, blockers, success measures, and resources needed.
• Oversee initiative deliverables to ensure projects remain in-scope and have resources allocated to deliver on the system-wide scale as needed.
• Responsible for ensuring project communication principles are adhered to, including artifacts like charters, schedules, and budgets, as appropriate and necessary for assigned projects.
• Present project milestones and deliverables to stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Assess risk with projects looking at both short-term and long-term impact, to gain leader insight as initiatives and priorities shift with changing business needs.
• Lead communications with senior leaders, project team members, and other stakeholders, to actively solicit and address stakeholder and project team feedback.
• Advise and support business development efforts to create project proposals, RFPs, estimates, and schedules, as appropriate.
• Oversee initiatives and activities that strengthen operational functions within the academic core.
• Support day-to-day operations connected to projects or initiative, delivery, and academic core activities.
• Design and deliver project metrics for initiatives, to ensure senior leaders and organizational impact is understood and planned for across the system.
• Lead initiative review meetings with stakeholders to ensure progress and project milestones are planned for, communicated, met, and advanced.
• Address technical and operational delays or system issues with appropriate subject matter experts, in order to proactively resolve potential project challenges or delays.
• Mentor project management team to share resources, provide guidance, develop tools and processes to support the success of less senior project managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years' experience in project management required.
• LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: N/a if none

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Possesses strong knowledge of project management principles