Speros Special Project Manager

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Summary

The Special Projects Director / Deputy Chief of Staff plays a key role in advancing Speros’ most important priorities. Reporting to the Director, Strategic Initiatives and working closely with the Speros President and broader leadership team, this position leads complex, cross-functional projects. The role also develops and implements systems, processes, and operational frameworks that enhance team performance and enable leadership to focus on strategic priorities.

While providing direct support to the Director, Strategic Initiatives on both specific projects and team-wide priorities, the position will progressively assume ownership of a portfolio of projects.

Leads Strategic and Special Projects

• Manages discrete, high-priority initiatives from initial problem definition through implementation.
• Translates broad strategic objectives into clear work streams, milestones, owners, dependencies and decision points.
• Develops project plans and drives execution across teams while ensuring alignment across stakeholders, including team members who do not have a direct reporting relationship to this role.
• Identify risks, resolve issues and
  * escalate decisions at the right moments rather than allowing projects to stall.*
• Coordinates internal and external partners, consultants and subject-matter experts around shared deliverables.
• Conducts research and analysis to inform decisions, frame options and develop recommendations for leadership.
• Steps into emerging or under-resourced priorities and rapidly creates enough structure to move them forward.
• Builds an independent portfolio over time, with increasing responsibility for defining and leading initiatives rather than only supporting existing work

Builds Systems That Support the Whole Speros Team

Helps manage Speros’ portfolio of priorities, creating visibility into what is underway, what is at risk and where leadership attention is needed.

• Builds practical systems for work planning, project tracking, decision documentation, follow-through and accountability across the team.
• Strengthens meeting cadences so recurring forums drive decisions and action rather than simply information sharing.
• Supports KPI definition, tracking and recurring performance reporting.
• Improves document management, shared resources, onboarding materials, slide libraries and other forms of institutional knowledge.
• Creates lightweight, repeatable processes that help a growing team operate with greater consistency without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Looks continuously for opportunities to simplify how the team works, reduce friction and make execution more reliable.

Supports and Extends the Director, Strategic Initiatives Portfolio

• Serves as a thought and execution partner to the Director, Strategic Initiatives across a broad portfolio of strategic and organizational priorities.
• Maintains context across major work streams, anticipates needs, connects dependencies and identifies issues before they become urgent.
• Prepares executive briefings, decision memos, presentations, dashboards and other materials that turn complexity into clear choices.
• Participates in select internal and external meetings and ensures decisions translate into action.
• Helps triage incoming issues and determines what requires leadership attention versus what can be independently resolved.
• Takes increasing ownership for work streams as context, judgment and organizational trust grow, allowing the Director, Strategic Initiatives to move from project manager to sponsor on more initiatives.

Builds Productive Working Relationships

• Builds productive working relationships across Speros, Moffitt and a wide range of external partners.
• Coordinates initiatives that cross organizational boundaries, functional teams and subject areas.
• Quickly learns enough about unfamiliar domains to identify the right questions, people, dependencies and decisions.
• Creates clarity where ownership is distributed or evolving and helps information move effectively between teams.
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