Executive Project Manager

Newport County Community Mental Health Center•Middletown, RI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Newport Mental Health (NMH) is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the planning, execution, and oversight of complex, organization-wide strategic initiatives. This role functions as a key operational partner to executive leadership, helping translate strategic priorities into structured, actionable projects while ensuring cross-departmental coordination, accountability, and timely delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Minimum of five (5) years of project management experience.
Project management certification (PMP, CAPM, Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent).
Experience in healthcare or regulated environments.
Experience supporting senior or executive leadership

Responsibilities

Provide centralized project management oversight of the organization’s strategic goals, translating high level goals into executable, time bound initiatives across departments.
Maintain a comprehensive view of all strategic and operational projects to ensure alignment with organizational priorities, capacity, and sequencing.
Partner with executive leadership to identify dependencies, risks, and resource conflicts that could impact delivery of strategic initiatives.
Lead and coordinate cross functional project teams involving operations, clinical programs, finance, HR, IT, quality, development, and external partners.
Establish clear project ownership, roles, milestones, and success metrics to ensure accountability without directly managing staff.
Facilitate regular project touchpoints to surface barriers early and keep initiatives moving forward.
Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables for all enterprise initiatives.
Proactively monitor progress and intervene when projects fall behind schedule, scope, or intent.
Ensure projects are completed on time, remain productive, and deliver intended business outcomes.
Serve as the enterprise owner and administrator of monday.com as the organization’s primary project management system.
Establish and enforce standardized project templates, status definitions, timelines, and reporting structures within monday.com.
Maintain real time dashboards that provide leadership with visibility into project health, deadlines, risks, and dependencies.
Train leaders and project owners on effective use of monday.com to ensure accurate, up to date reporting and shared accountability.
Produce concise executive level reports and dashboards that summarize project progress, risks, and required decisions.
Translate complex project activity into clear, action oriented updates for senior leadership and board level discussions when needed.
Support leadership decision making by identifying tradeoffs, sequencing needs, and capacity implications.
Identify recurring bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or duplication across projects and recommend process improvements.
Support standardization of workflows, tools, and communication practices to increase organizational efficiency.
Promote disciplined project management practices that reduce rework and improve follow through.
Maintain an enterprise level view of risks, interdependencies, and competing priorities across projects.
Escalate issues requiring executive intervention and propose mitigation strategies.
Track action items and resolution plans to closure.
Support leaders in planning and executing change initiatives associated with new systems, processes, or organizational initiatives.
Assist with rollout coordination, communication planning, and timeline management to ensure adoption and sustainability.
Coordinate project timelines and deliverables involving consultants, vendors, or external partners to ensure alignment with internal workstreams.
Track obligations, due dates, and deliverables to avoid delays or misalignment.
Establish predictable project governance rhythms (planning cycles, updates, reviews) that keep work moving without unnecessary bureaucracy.
Continuously refine project management practices, tools, and reporting based on organizational needs and leadership feedback.