Senior Project Manager, Marketing

World Vision Inc.•Federal Way, WA

45d•$94,710 - $112,590•Hybrid

About The Position

World Vision is hiring a Senior Project Manager, Marketing to manage complex, cross-functional marketing and digital initiatives alongside leading portfolio and project management practices. The Sr. Project Manager, Marketing is a strategic leader responsible for the end-to-end delivery of high-visibility, multi-team marketing projects that drive business growth. This role works cross-functionally with creative, digital, analytics, fundraising channels, agencies, technology, and other teams to ensure projects align with organizational goals and deliver measurable results. The Sr. Project Manager proactively navigates ambiguity, resolves issues, and keeps stakeholders informed and engaged.

Requirements

Proven expertise in full life-cycle project management, from planning and design through testing, implementation, and evaluation of large, cross-functional initiatives.
Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to guide diverse teams, build alignment, and communicate effectively across multiple divisions.
Strategic and analytical thinking, including experience prioritizing portfolios, managing budgets of $250K+, and using data to drive decisions and continuous improvement.
Operational maturity and organizational agility to deliver results in a fast-paced, matrixed environment while maintaining governance, quality, and collaboration.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (eight years). In addition to education or education equivalent, requires 5 years work experience in project management or related field. Work experience must include a minimum of three years of project management experience.
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.A for any employer

Nice To Haves

Experience in marketing, digital, or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries preferred; familiarity with technology or agency environments a plus.
Previous supervisory work experience strongly preferred.
Project management certification strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Keep Christ central in individual and corporate life; actively participate in and contribute to the spiritual disciplines of the organization (Christian conduct, chapel, prayer, worship, devotions, and leadership of devotions); incorporate WV Core Values into decisions within scope of role.
Lead/manage end-to-end delivery of high-visibility, multi-team projects from concept through execution and evaluation.
Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and budgets, ensuring effective resource allocation.
Facilitate alignment across marketing, agencies, technology, and other teams.
Elevate early and often to the accountable Sr. Director for project deviations from desired scope or timeline slips.
Provide real-time visibility to leadership through dashboards, health indicators, and capacity tracking.
Facilitate collaboration and remove delivery barriers-act as the connective tissue between teams, identifying blockers and driving resolution.
Support the Sr. Director in managing the division's portfolio of projects, integrating internal projects into organizational processes.
Consolidate project intake, prioritization, and status reporting into a unified view using Jira.
Develop dashboards and portfolio-level metrics for leadership, creating a model for retrospectives after each release of capabilities.
Define a lightweight, consistent PM playbook for embedded PMs inside marketing teams.
Provide onboarding, tools, and templates (e.g., scoping docs, status updates, retrospective guides).
Coach embedded PMs to ensure consistent execution.
Champion best practices in project management and marketing operations, driving continuous improvement.
Support a growing movement towards agile ways of working; introduce and reinforce Scaled Agile, Scrum, and similar standards and practices, enabling flexibility and learning loops
Keep informed of organizational announcements, activities and changes via regular reading of the WVUS Intranet and other corporate communication.
Perform other duties as assigned.