Project Manager, Project & Program Management, Operations Management

Easterseals Southern California transforms lives every day. For over a century, Easterseals has championed inclusion and independence—delivering essential services like early childhood programs, autism services, employment and independent living support to more than 29,000 people each year. Through advocacy and education, we break barriers and create opportunities for the one-in-four Americans with disabilities. Under moderate supervision, provides project management oversight and direction to ensure overall success of an assigned number of initiatives by developing appropriate project implementation plans to include but not limited to scope, goals, scheduling and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with management.

Plans, schedules and tracks project timelines, milestones and deliverables using appropriate tools. Estimates resources and participants needed to achieve project goals and determines the need. Ensures projects/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets. Assures compliance of projects and solutions with applicable standards and regulations, internal and external to the organization. In all responsibilities, the position demonstrates a strong commitment to ESSC’s mission and values by supporting a high-quality, person-centered service environment.

Starting Salary Range: $87k - $110k / yr.

Under moderate supervision, provides project management oversight and direction to ensure overall success of an assigned number of initiatives by developing appropriate project implementation plans to include but not limited to scope, goals, scheduling and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with management. Plans, schedules and tracks project timelines, milestones and deliverables using appropriate tools. Estimates resources and participants needed to achieve project goals and determines the need.

Ensures projects/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets. Assures compliance of projects and solutions with applicable standards and regulations, internal and external to the organization. In all responsibilities, the position demonstrates a strong commitment to ESSC’s mission and values by supporting a high-quality, person-centered service environment.

• Coordinates projects activities related to project definition, planning, and execution of projects while utilizing ESS standard project management processes.
• Plans, prioritizes, monitors, provides direction, and validates work of project team to ensure appropriate skills, workload, quality and timeliness of deliverables.
• Provides periodic reporting of status of projects, costs, schedules, contractual deliverables, among other key metrics to PMO leadership team, project governance team and executive leadership team as applicable.
• Effective escalation of project risks and issues along with relevant mitigation strategies to support quality and timely delivery of projects.
• Makes decisions in end-to-end project management, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end while developing and implementing program and project level processes, procedures and performance metrics.
• Develops and provides training on project management office frameworks and best practices; creates and standardizes tools; and aligns practices with industry standards and evidence-based practices.
• Showcases on-time delivery with flawless project launches from project kickoff to production release or go-live.
• Maintains project budgets, and supports earned value management, ROI analysis and KPI tracking.
• Acts as the single point of contact for internal and external team members on project status, execution, and escalation.
• Schedules,…