Senior Director, Institutional Initiatives Portfolio Management
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JobgetherHigher education
Based in the United StatesFull-TimeDirector
Salary220,000 - 260,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 10 years of demonstrated experience leading a project management team or working within a consulting or Project Management Office (PMO) organization. At least two years of higher education experience is preferred. Seven or more years of experience in a consulting organization is preferred.
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementChange ManagementProcess improvement
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required; a master's degree is preferred.
- At least 10 years of demonstrated experience leading a project management team or working within a consulting or Project Management Office (PMO) organization.
- Experience operating in a complex, matrixed environment and collaborating across organizational levels.
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies, project plans, lifecycle deliverables, executive reporting, and implementation planning.
- Ability to translate strategic objectives into structured plans and manage complex portfolios, programs, or projects.
- Analytical, strategic planning, and problem-solving skills, including managing multiple initiatives in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
- Written, verbal, and presentation skills, including adapting communication to different audiences and seniority levels.
- Ability to build consensus, engage diverse teams, and work with technical and functional stakeholders.
- Knowledge of IT project planning and solution development, including defining objectives, planning lifecycle deliverables, assessing resource availability, and evaluating technical solutions.
- At least two years of higher education experience is preferred.
- Seven or more years of experience in a consulting organization is preferred.
- Portfolio, program, and project management experience is preferred, particularly supporting senior leadership in higher education, government, or nonprofit organizations.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, coordination, management, and delivery of approved institutional initiatives sponsored by executive leadership.
- Translate strategic vision and desired results into implementation plans, milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements.
- Partner with executive sponsors and stakeholders across project management, information technology, academic units, and administrative functions.
- Lead and support a team of experienced project managers, overseeing governance, schedules, resources, risks, dependencies, progress, and outcomes.
- Establish project plans, executive-level status reports, presentations, and communication processes.
- Collaborate with change management and process improvement leaders to assess business process impacts, stakeholder needs, organizational readiness, and implementation requirements.
- Support effective communication, adoption, and sustainment of project-related changes and realization of intended benefits.
- Identify and resolve delivery challenges, manage competing priorities, and maintain momentum across concurrent initiatives.
- Build consensus and collaboration among technical and functional stakeholders.
- Provide executive sponsors with visibility into project status, emerging risks, required decisions, and delivery performance.
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