Senior Director of Project Management

With offices located across the USA, RKD Group has helped hundreds of nonprofits raise billions of dollars to fulfill their missions. Enjoy a career in marketing and advertising in a fast-paced agency environment while creating impactful breakthroughs for local and national nonprofit organizations and making the world more humane, just, and compassionate.

RKD Group, a direct response marketing and advertising agency, is seeking a passionate Senior Director, Project Management to help drive revenue and create breakthroughs never thought possible for local and national nonprofit clients.

The successful candidate will work with the Executive Vice President to build and lead a strong project management team and provide critical strategic and day-to-day management support in the area of project management.  This position will require in depth experience including effective governance, best practice methodologies, procedures, tools, reporting, and the ability to function in a dynamic and global environment. 

The Senior Director, Project Management is essential to ensure projects are planned well, assignments of responsibilities are correct, and that teams complete projects within scope, schedule, and budget parameters. They will have complete responsibility for coordination, implementation, execution, correction and control of all project activities and resources. They will work with internal teams with an overall goal of protecting the financial health of RKD, and delivery of the project to our clients as agreed to in our Statement of Work.  

They employ organizational expertise as well as negotiation and leadership skills to resolve scheduling issues and to ensure project goals and requirements are met. They are a team player and a good communicator with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines. The successful candidate will have excellent attention to detail and be able to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a positive attitude. They will enjoy working with cross-functional teams and have enthusiasm for problem solving and identifying opportunities for process improvement. 

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Apply and adhere to fundamental project management principles. 
• Create and manage project schedules, clearly defining project dependencies, critical path activities and project deliverables. 
• Prioritize the daily workflow. 
• Proactively escalate and communicate potential issues or risks related to direct mail and digital initiatives. 
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path activities, with a focus on omnichannel integration. 
• Work internally across functions to trade-off activity deadlines based on project realities, while ultimately meeting the overall project deadline.  Proactively resolve project deadline conflict between departments based on competing deadlines. 
• Proactively escalate and communicate potential issues or risks to leadership due to resource performance or capacity issues, technical challenges, or other unforeseen circumstances that arise and must be addressed.  Suggest mitigation and/or contingency plans to ensure project success. 
• Quickly communicate any scope creep on project to ensure changes are addressed internally and, if needed, raised with the client. 
• Ensure Project Initiation and Project Closure activities are performed. 
• Schedule and facilitate weekly status reports and meetings with internal teams on every project, delivering updates on timing, budgets, schedule/adjustments required, and any issues pertaining to them.  
• Maintain accurate historical records to identify efficiencies, with a focus on omnichannel best practices 
• Motivate co-workers to complete their tasks with personable, cooperative communication, while also maintaining unbiased reporting of issues.  

EDUCATION, SKILLS QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 8-10 years' experience is preferred. Ideally in project management. 
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Business or related field.
• Experience successfully creating and managing project schedules using Workfront (required) and Asana (a plus) software is preferred.
• Recent experience managing project schedules similar to a Direct Response Agency, requiring multiple functional areas such as Client Partnership, Account Management, Data, Production/Fulfillment, Analytics all contributing to the overall success of a project is preferred.
• PMP or CAPM Certification is a big plus. 
• Outstanding communication skills and ability to work closely with teams to provide clearly summarized and pertinent information. 
• Strong interpersonal skills to work collaboratively with many team memb