Senior Project Manager
Covenant House International•New York, NY
•$66,300 - $86,000•Hybrid
About The Position
The Senior Project Manager will serve as a key partner to Covenant House International (CHI) departments and local site leaders, helping translate strategic priorities into actionable work plans while ensuring leadership has clear visibility into progress, risks, challenges, and opportunities. This role requires significant experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and advanced expertise in Smartsheet. The Senior Project Manager will be a key member of the CHI Strategy team, and reports to the SVP, Research and Impact.
Requirements
- Significant project management experience, including management of large, complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Advanced proficiency in Smartsheet, including dashboards, reports, workflows, automations, and project tracking tools
- Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to work effectively across departments, teams and organizational levels
- Experience creating executive-level reports, dashboards, and project status updates
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and virtual collaboration platforms
- Commitment to Covenant House's mission and values
- Minimum of 5–7 years of project management experience
- Demonstrated experience managing large-scale strategic initiatives involving multiple stakeholders
- Advanced experience using Smartsheet as a project management and reporting platform
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience working in nonprofit, human services, education, public sector, or related environments
- Experience supporting strategic plan implementation, organizational change, or multi-site initiatives
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, implementation timelines, and workplans for the Strategy team and The Journey Home (TJH) initiatives
- Manage and continuously improve Smartsheet systems, dashboards, reports, and workflows used to monitor projects within the Strategy team, including TJH implementation
- Track progress toward TJH goals, objectives, targets, and deliverables at both the CHI and site levels
- Coordinate implementation of Strategy’s activities across CHI departments and sites
- Partner with local Covenant House site leaders to monitor local implementation of TJH priorities and identify opportunities to accelerate progress
- Collect, synthesize, and communicate progress updates from Covenant House sites and CHI departments
- Develop executive dashboards, status reports, presentations, and briefing materials for senior leadership and other stakeholders
- Monitor project risks, dependencies, barriers, and resource needs and escalate issues as appropriate
- Facilitate meetings, including preparation of agendas, materials, action items, and follow-up communications
- Maintain project documentation, decision logs, implementation records, and accountability systems
- Support cross-site learning by identifying and sharing promising practices, implementation successes, and lessons learned
- Promote alignment between site-level initiatives and federation-wide strategic priorities.
- Support continuous improvement efforts related to strategic planning, implementation, performance management, and organizational learning
Benefits
- Equal Opportunity Employer
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
