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Director, IT & Information Security Portfolio & Project Management

Planned Parenthood
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Jan 2024

About the role

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading provider and advocate of high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health care for all people, as well as the nation’s largest provider of sex education. With more than 600 health centers across the country, Planned Parenthood organizations serve all patients with care and compassion, with respect, and without judgment, striving to create equitable access to health care. Through health centers, programs in schools and communities, and online resources, Planned Parenthood is a trusted source of reliable education and information that allows people to make informed health decisions. We do all this because we care passionately about helping people lead healthier lives.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that supports the independently incorporated Planned Parenthood affiliates operating health centers across the U.S. Planned Parenthood Action Fund is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit membership organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The Action Fund engages in educational, advocacy, and electoral activity, including grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, and voter education.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) seek a strategic Director to lead the IT & InfoSec Portfolio & Project Management Office (PMO). This role reports to the National Director, Office of the CIO and oversees the Portfolio and Project Management program across the CIO team. The CIO department provides the strategy and implementation of the Information Technology and Information Security programs that safeguard the data entrusted to Planned Parenthood by its patients, supporters, donors, and staff.
Purpose:  The Director, IT and Information Security Portfolio & Project Management is responsible for strategically guiding the portfolio of work governed by the CIO department as well as the operational execution of managing priority projects as assigned. Works closely with the National Director, OCIO, to define processes to streamline and optimize our ability to deliver high-quality projects within time and budget. 
This includes supporting the annual strategic planning, managing the CIO prioritized portfolio, and ensuring that all programs and projects are aligned with PPFA strategic goals to meet the targets/major milestones.
This leadership position will also serve as a project management role for critical, priority initiatives assigned by the National Director, OCIO. As the project lead, this director role will work closely with business stakeholders and the CIO Leadership Team to manage critical projects, ensuring the successful delivery of project goals.
Delivery: 
Portfolio Management:
●Matures the portfolio management capabilities and streamlines the project management standards for the Information Technology and Security departments by;○identifying, crafting, and managing portfolio governance standards.○creating and maintaining a CIO Portfolio Dashboard to track KPIs against strategic priorities and accomplishments for all CIO towers.●Supports the working processes for the Tech Governance working processes to bring insights on aligning new demand to Project Management Resources for capacity planning.●Oversees the technical InfoSec and IT projects managers.●Drives continuous improvement of Office of the CIO's Project and Portfolio Management core processes, tools, resources, and skill development to ensure efficiencies and increased productivity in support of our services.●Manages regular operational review of the portfolio to ensure priority alignment, risks, and issues are proactively raised with stakeholders to ensure on time, on budget, and on scope of all projects.  
Program & Project Management:
●Serves the CIO organization through project management support of approved projects and ensures the project managers drive progress to high quality and successful outcomes.●Provides hands-on project management responsibility for priority projects, as assigned by OCIO leadership. ●Oversees project managers that manage all phases of projects based on the CIO project governance standards, including initiation, planning sessions, closure, and templatization.●Ensuring resource availability and allocation.●Provides program and project expertise and guidance to the project managers on making major/strategic changes to project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques. ●Creates project management framework and standards to drive project management excellence. Trains resources/teams to ensure they follow the project management standards.●Build a cohesive project team from various cross-functions, drive best practices into the organization, and deliver key results.●Scrum Team Collaboration - Translates strategic

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