PMO Director - Huron Research Suite

Huron Consulting Services•Chicago, IL

17d

About The Position

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes. Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change. You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. The Director of the Program Management Office (PMO) for Huron Research Software will be responsible for leading and continuously evolving program management for a large, complex, and rapidly advancing program. This initiative is the result of a ongoing strategic investment for Huron, focused on furthering the value that HRS can provide to our research community. This role will serve as the central nervous system for program execution—driving clarity, alignment, and momentum across highly distributed teams spanning Engineering, Product Management, and Customer Success. This leader will operate as a strategic partner to senior leadership, translating general program objectives into executable plans and associated schedules, while leveraging modern tooling and AI-enabled approaches to improve cross-team coordination, transparency, accountability and stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate is a seasoned PMO professional who is equally comfortable operating at the executive level and rolling up their sleeves to design pragmatic operating rhythms that work in fast moving, cross-functional environments.

Requirements

Seasoned PMO professional
Comfortable operating at the executive level
Comfortable rolling up their sleeves to design pragmatic operating rhythms that work in fast moving, cross-functional environments.
Experience with MS Project or Smartsheet

Nice To Haves

This position does not have direct operational authority over any one team or group.

Responsibilities

Facilitates and coordinates communications and information across multiple workstreams.
Create and independently manage/maintain Huron HRS product project schedule, documented in either MS Project or Smartsheet. Ensure schedules remain updated week to week and with visibility to key stakeholders.
Responsible for owning and coordinating with key internal stakeholder to ensure that a central Program Website for the HRS Program is maintained and accurate. This website purpose is to eliminate common questions coming from across the program that can be made more self-service, and supports the needs of a Global Products HRS global team.
Identify and ensure risks to the program are raised and documented. Provide recommendations and action within scope of work.
Ensure that key decisions made by the program are documented.
Mentor junior program management team members that provide program coordination across the HRS global team.
Attend key Product Development team meetings across the global team to stay informed.
Ensure that those responsible for creating meeting notes and documenting decisions from those team meetings is doing so after each meeting.
Coordinate with key members of Corporate IT and the Office of the CTO to deliver program goals related to program management of the program.
Other duties as assigned