Senior Project Manager
Partners for Rural Impact
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
PMP
About the role
- Reporting directly to the Vice President, the Sr. Project Manager is a versatile role that will look to identify, develop, and implement recommendations for improvement across multiple teams within PRI.
- Manage complex projects, coordinate people and processes.
- Ensure that the teams supporting the building of a Movement of Rural Leaders is aligned around the strategic objectives of PRI.
- Responsibilities include coordinating meetings and agendas, submitting project deliverables, preparing status reports, and establishing effective project communication plans to ensure proper execution.
- Work with colleagues to lead the development and documentation of processes, procedures, tracking tools, dashboards and other systems improvements to help the team support PRI in reaching its strategic goals.
- Perform the full range of the project management life cycle (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing) for the team and ensure the projects are aligned to the strategic initiatives of PRI.
- Coordinate multiple people around multiple projects, which includes communicating project goals, setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing the progress of projects by analyzing data and preparing status reports.
- Research and recommend to VP areas for organizational growth, efficiency and improvement.
- Work with a team to support the roll out, data entry and clean up, training, organization wide utilization, and ongoing troubleshooting of Salesforce as a CRM and data tool.
- Develop knowledge of the work of PRI by attending rural education seminars and workshops, reviewing publications related to rural education, and establishing professional networks within PRI and with our strategic partners.
- Facilitate team meetings that support alignment to organizational goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, education, technology or related field preferred
- Minimum of five plus years of experience managing complex and varied projects through the PM life cycle from initiation, to implementation, through evaluation
- Strong commitment to the mission of Partners for Rural Impact that All Rural Students Succeed
- Demonstrated experience with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practice
- Demonstrated commitment working in and with rural communities with a focus on equity and upward mobility
- Demonstrated success in a complex, fast-paced, high-performing organization, with the ability to prioritize projects and work cross-functionally
- Able to multitask and work independently
- Professional Management Professional (PMP) certification a plus.
Benefits
- Comprehensive insurance plans including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
- Flexible spending accounts, plus an employee assistance program.
- Life and long-term disability insurance and retirement plan.
- Generous paid time off work options including vacation, sick leave, and annual holidays, in addition to paid parental leave.
- Tuition assistance and professional development for employees.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project managementproject management life cycledata analysisprocess improvementproject deliverablesstatus reportsproject communication plansmultitaskingimplementationevaluation
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillscollaborationproblem-solvingcommitment to equityability to prioritizeindependencefacilitationnetworking
Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP)