Senior Project Manager - Deans Office

85000 Wake Forest University Health Sciences - Academic Deans Office

Full time

Yes

40

Monday - Friday 8-5
In office Monday- Thursday

Pay Range:

$44.15 - $66.25

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. The Senior Project Manager role will include the following components:

Project Leadership

• 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.

·Academic Operations Alignment

• 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.

Enterprise Partnership

• Ongoing partnership with enterprise leaders is essential to successfully lead and implement a portfolio of institutional projects and activities with broad system-wide impact.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's degree required, master’s degree preferred. 10+ years' experience in project management required.

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: N/a if none

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• 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.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

· 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

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Each teammate has the responsibility to work in a safe manner. Work requires frequent moving from one area to another, coordinating, and communicating with persons in various disciplines and agencies. Frequent walking, standing and sitting.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

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Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training

• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job

• Incentive pay for select positions

• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs

• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability

• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses

• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave

• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs

• Educational Assistance Program

Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.