Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The American Red Cross is the world's largest humanitarian network, committed to helping millions of lives every year. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to support the Humanitarian Services Project Management Office by managing complex projects and guiding project teams through all phases of project execution.
Responsibilities
- Oversee project team members’ milestones and performance as compared to project plan, scope, budget, resources, and schedule. Manage project risks, issues, and dependencies proactively
- Communicate project progress and information to senior sponsors, stakeholders, and field as appropriate
- Facilitate executive steering committees and status updates
- Develop and prepare written project plans for complex projects addressing tasks, roles and responsibilities, risk, resources, budget and communications
- Develop work breakdown structure and perform critical path analysis
- Manage the change control within project, obtaining sponsor approval for changes to scope, budget and schedule that effect the critical path
- Acquire a project charter from senior management and obtain sign off on the statement of work by the project sponsor
- Ensure that scope, budget, and schedule targets are within variance and project delivery date is met
- Navigate ambiguity in relationships across multiple departments to successfully bring people together when needed for project success
- Coaching project team on how to use PM methodology, templates, and tools
- Support portfolio-level planning and resource allocation
- Provide input into business case development and prioritization
- Help define and implement PMO processes, templates, and tools; and contribute to the development of project governance frameworks
- Provide and promote project management best practices throughout Humanitarian Services
- Collaborate within the Humanitarian Service PMO office to ensure there are clearly defined project dependency and interdependencies, lessons learned library, and monitoring risks spanning multiple projects
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification required
- Minimum 7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to develop project plans, budgets, and strategies to achieve organizational goals
- Proficiency with MS Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Ability to work on a remote team
- Some travel may be required
- Volunteer management experience preferred
- Experience working with executive leadership (VP and up)
Benefits
- Medical, Dental Vision plans
- Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
- PTO: Starting at 19 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
- Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
- 401K with up to 6% match
- Paid Family Leave
- Employee Assistance
- Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
- Service Awards and recognition
Company Overview
American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization whose purpose is to meet the immediate disaster-caused needs of people and communities. It was founded in 1881, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://redcross.org.