Senior Project Manager - Dean's Office

Overview

JOB SUMMARY:
Senior project management leader responsible for driving all aspects of large-scale academic initiatives on behalf of Wake Forest University School of Medicine across the Advocate Health system. The Senior Project Manager is an expert project manager, with deep experience driving cross-organizational and enterprise-level initiatives across multi-region stakeholders. The Senior Project Manager will rely on project management expertise and principles to drive progress in system-wide initiatives for which the organization’s most senior leaders are the key stakeholders. Regular partnership with enterprise leaders is expected to successfully lead and implement the portfolio of institutional projects that have Enterprise-wide impact.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• 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 to ensure adherence to legally binding requirements, as appropriate.
• 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 and/or supervise lower-level project managers to provide guidance, develop tools and processes to support the success of the project management team.
   

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s degree preferred. 10+ years’ experience in project management required.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to navigate in a highly matrixed environment
• Possesses strong knowledge of project management principles

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Each teammate has the responsibility to work in a safe manner. Work requires frequent moving from one area to another, coordinating, and communicating with persons in various disciplines and agencies. Frequent walking, standing and climbing may be required.