Senior Project Manager

Summary

The Senior Project Manager at National Heritage Academies (NHA) is responsible for leading teams to deliver projects that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.

Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.

The Senior Project Manager at National Heritage Academies (NHA) is responsible for leading teams to deliver projects that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.

The Senior Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case.

National Heritage Academies (NHA) partners with communities to build and operate public charter schools. Founded in 1995, today NHA serves over 100 schools in nine states, with more than 65,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Our schools are designed to eliminate the achievement gap and provide school choice to families so their children are prepared for success in college, career, and life.

A majority of our schools consistently outperform their local district on the state test. NHA is a leading performer among charter schools and management organizations. In addition, according to our employee survey, over 90% of respondents agree that the work they do is meaningful to them. Join our team.

• Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business.
• Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously.
• Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence.
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization.
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources.
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and risks and issues.
• Understand the interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs.
• Manage project scope and changes.
• Participate and/or drive feasibility studies, vendor selections, and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders.
• Manage issues log and participate in quality issue resolution.
• Assist in dispute, negotiation, arbitration or litigation, as needed.
• Define the Statement of Work and specifications for the requested goods and services.
• Set and continually manage project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverable with team members and stakeholders.
• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, CIO and key stakeholders.
• Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project and program life cycle.
• Identify and develop trusted adviser relationship with project and program stakeholders, sponsors and university stakeholders.
• Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication.
• Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards.
• Continue professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods and best practices.
• Extensive understanding of project and program management principles, methods and techniques.
• Proven success in providing on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Pair with Change Management Office on executing change management best practices on projects.
• Create, own, and…