Senior Strategic Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Facilitates strategic discussions and understanding of ideas, implications and proposals.
• Performs needs analyses, identifying knowledge gaps that fall within the scope of a project, and works to address needs and gaps.
• Ensures that data and analysis critical to project success are completed.
• Helps project members understand project vision, objectives, trade-offs, assuring strategic clarity for all projects undertaken.
• Addresses projects from multiple angles, proactively anticipating needs of other departments and stakeholders, assuring that initiatives support core goals.
• Identifies key decisions, milestones and achievements for individual programs as well as for interrelated initiatives in a broad scope.
• Provides team leadership and inspires others to action.
• Provides critical input to others and provides extra support to the team as needed.
• Responds to obstacles & barriers to projects and/or programs, using critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills to resolve.
• Captures and coordinates efforts across multiple groups, departments, divisions, and facilities to achieve strategic objectives.
• Serves as a liaison to the required functional departments to increase awareness of programs.
• May participate in grant applications process including design, submission, and review.
• Coordinates and runs events and workshops.
• Reports on project and/or program performance to executive team and directors.
• Develops industry relationships.
• Ensures that relevant standards, process and regulations are upheld.
• Develops and implements strategy, including the development of a robust risk mitigation plan.
• Creates and manages long term goals.
• Develops evaluation methods to assess programs strengths and identifies areas for improvement.
• Meets with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project and/or program issues and decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related area, or equivalency.
• Five years of applicable experience.
• Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP).