Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
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Job Description
Who We Are
Our mission is simple but critical: to build pathways for adult learners to earn highquality workforcealigned degrees and credentials from North Carolinas public universities.
At Project Kitty Hawk our work reflects our company values:
Collaboration We prioritize our partners success and reputation aligning every initiative with their goals reflecting their values and enhancing their impact.
Innovation We innovate not replicate. As creative problem solvers we use datadriven insights to push boundaries continuously improve our services develop solutions and redefine what it means to serve nontraditional learners.
Empathy We understand the unique challenges of nontraditional learners and are committed to supporting them with empathy respect and solutions that fit their needs.
Integrity We operate with transparency and accountability in everything we do. We uphold honesty take ownership of our work and maintain the highest standards.
Teamwork We embody the collaboration we seek. We always strive to be dependable supportive and solutionsoriented teammates.
Together we partner with universities in the University of North Carolina (UNC) System to produce innovative flexible degree and credential programs in highdemand fields. Each PKH team member plays a vital role in advancing this mission and shaping the future of education for adult learners.
These values will enable us to realize PKHs vision: to make North Carolinas public universities the top choice for adult learners and to amplify the UNC Systems role as a national leader in higher education innovation access and student success. By joining our team you have an opportunity to contribute to our achievement of that vision in the process helping to create opportunities for thousands of learners to earn their success and move up the economic ladder.
At Project Kitty Hawk we hire talented people who are not only dedicated to our mission but share our belief that working together makes us stronger and more effective. In this organization youll find individuals with a range of interesting backgrounds and life stories; the true magic happens when those individuals come together to solve problems in service of a common goal. We encourage you to bring your unique perspective talents and ideas to the table as we strive to make a meaningful impact.
The Role
The Senior Project Manager position will be responsible for the successful implementation of assigned technical projects programs and strategic initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives. This individual will oversee multiple projects programs and/or initiatives ensuring that goals are achieved and the work is managed in a productive collaborative and expeditious manner. The Senior Project Manager will provide crossfunctional support throughout the PKH organization as well as to partner organizations in support of enhancing access to education for adult learners across the state of North Carolina.
What youll do:
- Works closely and collaboratively with key stakeholders to define project scope strategy budget timeline resources and outcomes; identifies critical resource expertise and targets appropriate internal and/or external sources to ensure optimal outcome(s).
- Work collaboratively and coordinate among multiple PKH departments and partner organizations to manage and facilitate associated deliverables to ensure a smooth handoff between responsible parties tracking major milestones and deliverables throughout the process providing routine updates to many stakeholders and driving them to results.
- Set targets and expectations related to the launch of projects and initiatives and hold individuals accountable for delivering them.
- Identify and manage against dependencies and constraints across projects and initiatives.
- Partner closely with various technical teams to develop an understanding of ways of working their bandwidth and skillset.
- Surface risks to the appropriate leadership and develop mitigating strategies to ensure successful and timely delivery of the work.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal PKH departments PKH partner organizations and stakeholders at varying levels of the organization.
- Proactively deliver regular communication relevant to project information in a professional manner to the business and technical personnel.
- Develop project plans to monitor and track progress including project schedules communication plans risk assessment and management resource schedules and change management.
- Conduct retrospectives with large groups of stakeholders to surface opportunities for process improvement. Develop and implement modifications to enhance the process based on learnings.
- Takes action to mitigate conflict; escalates serious project issues.
- Regularly reviews status of project and makes modifications to scheduling prioritization scope resources and requirements as necessary.
- Plans and determines resources needs for successful completion of project.
- Partners with operational teams to resource project appropriately.
- Prepares and maintains all project status reports and schedules; tracks milestones/deliverables critical paths and dependencies; resets expectations as needed in consideration of project progress/outcomes.
- Oversees and facilitates project team meetings preparing status reports and documents throughout the project.
- Manages coaches and supervises all project team members both internal and contracted to ensure optimal outcomes; builds develops and maintains relationships vital to project success.
- Work collaboratively with the PKH EPMO and other Project Managers to develop and institute project management best practices for the organization.
- Provide business analyst support on projects and initiatives as needed based resource availability.
- Document business processes and/or modifications to business processes as a result of the implementation of projects and initiatives.
- Assist with the analysis of business requests to aid in the management of resource budget and risk planning and management.
What you bring:
- A bachelors degree or higher is required.
- 10 years of Project Management experience with at least 5 of those in highereducation and with technical project management.
- Project Management Certification (SCRUM PMP PgMP etc. is preferred but not required.
- Experience developing strategies and specifications for projects.
- Experience in managingmultiple complex projects simultaneously especially technologybased projects.
- Experience in roles and responsibilities to ensure understanding of expectations; takes action to mitigate conflict.
- Experience in usingstandard project management and change management practices.
- Experience in maintaining strong collaborative working relationships with leadership stakeholders and project team.
- Experience in effectively communicatingproject status tasks and timelines to ensure project completion.
- Evidence in developing verbal and written project status reports.
- Experience in effectively monitoringproject status to mitigate project risk.
- Demonstrates knowledge of multiple project management methodologies.
- Experience with Project Management or Agile software and tools such as Microsoft Project JIRA Smartsheet and others.
- Mental and Physical Abilities
- Exercise independent judgment concentrate think communicate interact with others manage multiple tasks and cope with stressful situations and deadlines.
- Ability to perform sedentary physical activity of an administrative nature and to visit clients in various settings.
This position may visit clients and/or vendors at their respective office settings.
Usually works during normal business hours Monday through Friday; may require evening or weekend hours particularly during times of travel.
A hybrid work environment may be required where certain days are spent in an office setting while others are conducted remotely.
$120000 $130000 a year
What We Offer
Project Kitty Hawk offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes full medical/dental/vision coverage a 401K with match and a generous timeoff policy with paid volunteer time. In addition we are committed to providing competitive salaries with the potential for performance bonus and remote working flexibility.
Project Kitty Hawk is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race creed color religion alienage or national origin ancestry citizenship status age disability or handicap sex marital status veteran status sexual orientation genetic information arrest record or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local laws.
Project Kitty Hawk is dedicated to this policy concerning recruitment hiring placement promotion training compensation benefits employee activities and general treatment during employment. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation please contact Kelly Snow
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