Senior Portfolio Manager - General Counsel Division

The Senior Portfolio Manager successfully manages medium-to-large-scale projects by effectively coordinating cross-functional teams, resources, and stakeholders. Leveraging proven project management best practices, methodologies, and tools, the role ensures timely delivery of projects within defined scope, quality, and budget constraints. Duties include but are not limited to:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads comprehensive project planning, including defining scope, scheduling, budgeting, and resource allocation to align with organizational goals.
• Lead implementation, enhancement, and ongoing optimization of key projects, including requirements gathering, workflow design, testing, training, and change management.
• Support adoption of legal technology tools such as matter management, eBilling, policy management, or document automation systems as assigned.
• Drive user training, onboarding, documentation, and support processes that increase user adoption and reduce system friction.
• Monitor and report on performance metrics, usage trends, and enhancement needs to senior leadership.
• Develop briefing documents, correspondence, presentations, and other decision-support materials that provide senior leadership with information, analysis, and recommendations.
• Proactively identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, and changes throughout the project life cycle to mitigate impacts.
• Oversee vendor management and coordinate third-party engagements to ensure contractual obligations and deliverables are met.
• Facilitate regular project status meetings, prepare detailed progress reports, dashboards, and presentations for stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with organizational project management frameworks, governance processes, policies, and quality standards.
• Foster strong stakeholder relationships by managing and coordinating third-party engagements and resolving conflicts, ensuring transparency in communications.
• Serve as a liaison between HCAO, departments, and Court offices as needed to facilitate clear communication and alignment to meet strategic objectives and drive business value.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

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This position is subject to a criminal history check.

Only relevant convictions will be considered and, even when considered, may not automatically disqualify the candidate.

Experience:

• Seven (7) years of relevant experience delivering IT projects that solve business needs.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of project management methodology.
• Knowledge of project management tools (Microsoft Project, Jira, etc.)
• Exposure to software development, Agile, or IT operations.
• Ability to balance legal stakeholder needs with system constraints, technical feasibility, and operational requirements.
• Familiarity with CLM systems or similar enterprise workflow tools (e.g., Docu Sign CLM, Icertis, Ironclad, Agiloft, Onit, Service Now)
• Excellent decision-making, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative group.
• Ability to learn new tools and methodologies; stays current in leading trends.

NOTE: Qualifying education, experience, knowledge and skills must be documented on your job application. You may attach a resume to the application as supporting documentation but
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