Sr. IT Project Manager

Overview

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

 

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Sr. IT Project Manager supporting our National Center office. This role can be home based.

Embark on an exhilarating career as our Senior IT Project Manager, where you won't just manage projects – you'll be at the forefront of shaping the future of heart health innovation with the American Heart Association. Dive into the dynamic realm of strategic, high-priority technical projects, collaborating directly with senior management and overseeing substantial financial investments that propel our mission forward.

 

Our Senior IT Project Manager will be the driving force behind implementing the American Heart Association's cutting-edge waterfall and agile project methodologies, ensuring that the outcomes resonate with our enterprise business strategies, technical architecture, and compliance standards. Your impact extends beyond project management; you'll play a key role in building a healthier future by establishing work priorities, guiding a talented team, and collaborating seamlessly with vendors to achieve project objectives that directly contribute to our mission of eliminating cardiovascular diseases and strokes.

 

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

 

#TheAHALife is our company culture, our way of life, reflecting our diversity, equity & inclusion, our focus on work-life harmonization and our Guiding Values. Discover why you will Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Valued™ at the American Heart Association by following us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and at heart.jobs.

Responsibilities

• Initiates, plans, executes, monitors, controls and closes assigned executive sponsored or multi-level complex projects. Assigned projects may include strategic, top priority efforts that require interaction and management with high visibility and significant financial investment.
• Establish work priorities for and advise the efforts of personnel (including consultants or contractors) involved in project-controlled tasks required to meet an approved project's objectives. Provides expedient response, resolution of roadblocks, mitigation of risks, and re-evaluation of priorities for the team.
• Develop initial scope, project plans and forecasts of resources' scheduling needs. Identify scope, provide insight and take action to resolve issues as well as initiate steps to mitigate, manage and control.
• Identify, model and leverage Project Management best practices. Provides expertise in both waterfall and agile project management methodologies.
• Provide analysis and consultation to determine project requirements and scope.
• Orchestrate seamless executive-level communications. Function as a key liaison, strategically bridging connections between diverse departments and external partners, aligning seamlessly with the elevated expectations of executive leadership.
• Troubleshoot project problems and develop plans to adhere to timelines and budgets. Anticipate risks and issues. Establish options and solutions, considering impact of decisions. Acts as initial point of contact for escalated issues. Move unresolved concerns to seek leadership mentorship and provide options.
• Champion project governance best practices and actively controls project changes and manages related communications. Identify, establish, and maintain excellent business relationships. Recommends and influences decision making within project scope.
• Manage capital assets and project expenses within the project budget. Performs analysis for return on investment reporting (Projects more than $500K).

 

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, related area or equivalent experience.
• Eight (8) years of experience with line of business software concepts, systems, and capabilities.
• Five (5) years of experience in project management in business or technology environment.
• Five (5) years of experience using project management software and related applications.
• Ability to work independently.
• Solid experience managing custom code software development.
• Ability to explain sophisticated, technical concepts