Senior Project Manager (Term-Limited)

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

Requirements:

• 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)