Senior Project Manager

The School District of Philadelphia is committed to improving educational opportunities for students and supporting schools and communities. The Senior Project Manager supports the Office of the Superintendent by managing large, complex enterprise-wide projects, including scope development, budgeting, contract administration, staffing coordination, stakeholder engagement, implementation, evaluation, and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Develops strategies for appropriate scopes of work
• Participates or directs contract negotiation and/or preparation
• Plans and manages timelines, and monitors progress of various projects and work streams; provides progress updates to project leads
• Works with selected teams on specific aspects of meeting project goals in a timely manner
• Prepares, manages, audits, and maintains direct responsibly for project budgets
• Prepares reports related to project status and projections
• Directly supervises project or department staff as required
• Develops and builds good communications and relationships with District leaders and staff
• Facilitates meetings with internal and external stakeholders
• Uses data on process effectiveness to identify potential improvements and codify successful approaches
• Participates in confidential and/or sensitive matters and/or projects at every level of the enterprise
• Supports administrative and managerial project work for projects and initiatives under the responsibility or oversight of the Deputy Chief of Staff

Requirements:

• ·   Completion of a bachelor's degree program from an accredited college or university
• ·   Six years of full-time, paid, professional, experience in either administration, operations, finance, education, or information technology which has included serving as a team lead or project manager
• ·   Any equivalent combination of training and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Talent
• ·  All work experience related to the position must be included on the resume.
• o   the procedures and methods utilized to implement systemic change in a timely, accurate, and effective manner
• o   Google Workspace suite, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and/or other productivity and scheduling tools
• o   be champion for K-12 public education
• o   manage large or complex projects and/or budgets
• o   plan, organize, and direct project activities and allocate staff resources to tasks efficiently
• o   analyze and resolve complex problems
• o   represent a superior at meetings and conferences
• o   present ideas effectively, both orally and in writing
• o   work collaboratively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• o   establish and maintain effectives working relationships