Senior Project Manager

Incumbent must have the skills, abilities, and judgment to perform the following essential job duties and responsibilities, with or without reasonable accommodation:

• Serve as advisor to the Leadership Team by helping evaluate, prioritize, and advance strategic projects that align with organizational goals, available resources, and cross-functional needs
• Provide project management leadership for complex, high-priority organizational initiatives, programs, projects, and efforts
• Oversee the strategic projects portfolio and initiatives, including interdependencies, priorities, risks, and resource needs across departments
• Report on the portfolio of projects and project activities to the Leadership Team, including data-driven recommendations, risks, trade-offs, and decisions needed
• Lead and manage cross-functional projects using Ed Fund’s Project Management Life Cycle and industry best practices, especially projects with high complexity, ambiguity, or organizational impact
• Drive standardization, continuous improvement, and adoption of the Ed Fund’s Project Management Life Cycle, tools, templates, governance practices, and reporting standards
• Mentor and coach associate and mid-level project managers by providing guidance, feedback, and support on project planning, stakeholder communication, risk management, and use of Ed Fund project management tools, templates, and best practices
• Provide administrative and project support for priority digital tools, helping staff use systems effectively, improve workflow efficiency, and reporting, and collaboration.
• Create, manage, and improve project documents including project charters, project plans, schedules, risk / issue / decision logs, business requirements documents (BRDs), close-out documents, action items, and executive dashboards
• Schedule and manage project team meetings, including creation of agendas, meeting minutes, action tracking, and decision documentation
• Create and maintain project executive dashboards; anticipate, escalate, and resolve risks and issues with appropriate leadership involvement
• Develop presentation materials and facilitate various meetings including knowledge sharing sessions, lunch & learns, workshops, steering committees, and leadership briefings
• Review current business processes, identify areas of improvement, and devise improvement strategies that increase project delivery effectiveness
• Negotiate priorities, resources, timelines, and trade-offs across departments while maintaining alignment with organizational goals

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred; program management, agile, or related credentials valued
• BA/BS degree required; advanced degree preferred
• At least 7 years of progressively responsible project management experience, including complex, cross-functional projects or programs
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, interdependent workstreams, and teams across multiple locations
• Strong intellectual curiosity and ability to analyze, conceptualize, and evaluate information to determine relative strengths and weaknesses of ideas, proposals, risks, and project options
• Comfortable managing ambiguity, structuring unclear problems into actionable plans, and balancing action with the appropriate level of risk
• Demonstrated problem-solving leadership with limited oversight in a rapidly evolving environment
• Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage large cross-functional teams, and achieve outcomes without direct authority
• Strong ability to produce accurate and precise work, detect discrepancies, resolve discrepancies, and improve processes while meeting deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task, prioritize, and make sound trade-off recommendations across competing organizational needs
• Able to analyze data, trends, and project performance indicators and provide clear recommendations to leadership
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent public speaking and executive briefing skills
• Ability to mentor, coach, guide, and provide constructive feedback to project managers, project leads, and cross-functional team members to strengthen project management practices, tools, templates, and best practices
• Must have a valid driver’s license, use a vehicle, and maintain an appropriate level of car insurance
• All candidates will undergo pre-employment requirements, including a criminal background check and education verification

• Experience leading programs or portfolios with high visibility, interdependent workstreams, and senior stakeholder engagement
• Experience with labor-management partnerships, workforce development, higher education, career and technical education, vocational education, certification, and credentialing relating to the healthcare labor market
• Experience with Salesforce, WRIKE, Zoom, and MS Office

• Compensation available for the role considers various factors, including but not limited to work location, individual skill set, previous/applicable experience, and other organizational needs.

• Dental Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Pension
• 401K
• Auto Allowance

• 8-hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Must be able to travel 10% to 20%