Senior Project Manager - Deans Office
About The Position
The Senior Project Manager is a senior project management leader responsible for advancing large-scale academic initiatives for Wake Forest University School of Medicine across the Advocate Health system. The role is organizationally embedded in the Chief Academic Officer/Dean’s Office and reports to the Associate Vice President and Assistant Dean of Academic Operations. This role brings deep expertise in leading cross-organizational, enterprise-level initiatives that involve multi-region stakeholders. The Senior Project Manager applies project management principles to advance system-wide priorities, with senior organizational leaders serving as key stakeholders. The Senior Project Manager also supports academic operational functions within the CAO/Dean’s Office to ensure project and operational alignment for academic activities. This role serves as a key operational partner in driving academic priorities forward. Ongoing partnership with enterprise leaders is essential to successfully lead and implement a portfolio of institutional projects and activities with broad system-wide impact.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- 10+ years' experience in project management required
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to navigate in a highly matrixed environment
- Possesses strong knowledge of project management principles
Nice To Haves
- master’s degree preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead full scale initiatives from concept to implementation for system-wide impact, including planning, overseeing, and monitoring projects to ensure progress and deliverables to senior leaders.
- Act as a primary project contact/liaison to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives.
- Direct multiple stakeholders to collaborate on project scope, deliverables, goals, risks, blockers, success measures, and resources needed.
- Oversee initiative deliverables to ensure projects remain in-scope and have resources allocated to deliver on the system-wide scale as needed.
- Responsible for ensuring project communication principles are adhered to, including artifacts like charters, schedules, and budgets, as appropriate and necessary for assigned projects.
- Present project milestones and deliverables to stakeholders and senior leaders.
- Assess risk with projects looking at both short-term and long-term impact, to gain leader insight as initiatives and priorities shift with changing business needs.
- Lead communications with senior leaders, project team members, and other stakeholders, to actively solicit and address stakeholder and project team feedback.
- Advise and support business development efforts to create project proposals, RFPs, estimates, and schedules, as appropriate.
- Oversee initiatives and activities that strengthen operational functions within the academic core.
- Support day-to-day operations connected to projects or initiative, delivery, and academic core activities.
- Design and deliver project metrics for initiatives, to ensure senior leaders and organizational impact is understood and planned for across the system.
- Lead initiative review meetings with stakeholders to ensure progress and project milestones are planned for, communicated, met, and advanced.
- Address technical and operational delays or system issues with appropriate subject matter experts, in order to proactively resolve potential project challenges or delays.
- Mentor project management team to share resources, provide guidance, develop tools and processes to support the success of less senior project managers.
Benefits
- Paid Time Off programs
- medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
- Educational Assistance Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
