Director Strategic Portfolio Management

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The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Pay Range: $136700.00 $246000.00

Job Description

• Executive reporting on portfolio and transformation status (weekly monthly and quarterly). Development of online executive dashboards and reports to enable executive level selfservice status checking.
• Leads the coordination and reporting of portfolio status during the annual operations planning process for the operational strategic and innovation portfolios.
• Coordinates and leads the annual Objective & Key Result (OKR) planning and alignment process with all system entities schools and shared service teams. Tracks OKR performance in aggregate across the WGU system for quarterly status reporting.
• Weekly coordination and alignment with the other portfolio and project management teams in the WGU system (academic offering product team education technology product team business program & project teams) to ensure governance through agreement on standards and practices.
• Leadership member of the Service Now SPM Steering Committee and a driver of the Service Now feature and capability implementation roadmap with a focus on operational improvement and effectiveness.
• Partners with leaders on the development of systemlevel initiatives with measurable outcomes aligned to the 5Year strategic plans and strategic capability roadmaps.
• Implements standards and structures to support portfolio development and including crossfunctional reviews to give line of sight and support coordination across the portfolio of initiatives.
• Establishes processes to support and communicate initiative status and progress towards established goals.
• Establishes system initiative program and project standards and track compliance.
• Continuously improves portfolio processes to support nimbleness (more timely adjustments improved pace from opportunity identification to action). Establish a rolling model of Demand intake and approval.
• Develops and implements enterprisewide strategic communication plans.
• Designs implementation and management of processes tools (software systems) and policies related to the strategic portfolio management.
• Thought leader and change agent in the establishment of enterprisewide strategy for unified portfolio initiative program and project management across all university entities.
• Provides regular updates on portfolio performance status and value delivery.
• Manages large complex initiatives or programs in a results driven environment. Ensures alignment and understanding of decision impact across teams. Leverages relationships and insights to reduce ambiguity to drive for results. Clearly articulates goals communicates and defends (or redefines) the value proposition.
• Applies best practices for portfolio and management and actively demonstrates expertise in enterprise level strategic portfolio and program/project management systems software and aligned tools.
• Collaborates with university leadership business owners and other stakeholders to refine goals and then to define approaches to achieve them. Defines the business case and ensures alignment with the business vision and strategy.
• Oversees the of transformation initiatives programs and projects ensuring they are delivered on time within budget and to quality standards.
• Executes change management requires as needed on transformation work executed by the team.
• Hires leads manages coaches develops and evaluates direct and indirect reports.
• Performs other jobrelated duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering finance or business administration or related field.

Experience

• 10 years specific experience including:

• 57 years leading a team (with direct reports)
• 4 to 5 years of strategic portfolio management experience
• 2 to 3 years of direct management of transformation program/project management teams or a project management office.

Experience in lieu of education

Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Generally equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is the discretion of the hiring manager.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in engineering finance or business administration or related field.
• Experience in a digital business model where value is delivered to customers through technology driven online systems in part or in full.

• Experience with Strategic Portfolio Management tools techniques systems and operational .

• Experience in Higher Education Business Transformation or other online service industries.

Work Location

• This position is inoffice in Salt Lake City UT.
• Schedule: 4 days onsite 1 day work from home

Position & Application Details

FullTime Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a fulltime regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical dental vision telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual 11 paid holidays and other paid leaves including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

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Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.