Senior Project Manager

Department:

85000 Wake Forest University Health Sciences - Academic Deans Office

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

NA

Pay Range

$43.30 - $64.95

The Senior Project Manager position at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Advocate Health is a pivotal role reporting directly to the Chief of Staff for the Dean and Chief Academic Officer. Responsible for leading complex, cross-departmental initiatives, the Senior Project Manager ensures projects are strategically aligned with institutional goals through disciplined project management practices. This highly visible position oversees all phases of project delivery—including planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting—while also providing critical support to the Chief of Staff on special initiatives. The role requires expert coordination of resources, effective risk management, rigorous progress tracking, and consistent communication with stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's Degree required, Master's degree preferred. 10+ years' experience in project management required.

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 to ensure adherence to legally binding requirements, as appropriate.
• 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
• 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 climbing may be required.

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