Senior Project Associate

Senior Project Associate

Dalio Family Office

Dalio Family Office Overview:

The Dalio Family Office (DFO) supports Barbara and Ray Dalio and their family in their ventures, investments, and philanthropic efforts under Dalio Philanthropies, which includes OceanX, Dalio Education, Endless Network, and the Beijing Dalio Foundation. The core of the DFO’s culture is built around meaningful work and meaningful relationships and the family’s commitment to giving back. The office is headquartered in Westport, CT with regional offices in New York City, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi.

Project Management  Pillar Overview:

​​The Project Management Pillar is a service-oriented pillar within the DFO that is responsible for providing excellent process and project management capabilities to help the Dalio Family and the broader DFO achieve their goals through project management, training, process optimization, and reporting. While the content of these projects will vary in nature consistent with the broad range of interests of the family and requirements of the organization, this person will play a direct role in ensuring the project and organizational goals are met.​

Position Summary:

The Senior Project Associate will report directly to the Head of the Project Management Pillar and will be responsible for leading multiple projects concurrently. The content of these projects will vary in nature, as will the complexity and duration. This position will play a direct role in the creation of the project by translating a goal/vision into a timeline with deliverables; measure outcomes along the way using milestones and metrics; report on the status/health of the project; and play a role in the execution of the project, either by direct participation or supervision of internal/external resource(s).

Day-to-day responsibilities would include a combination of the following:

• Manage several large, complex DFO projects concurrently – including timing, budget, deliverables, and risks
• Manage internal and external resources responsible for delivering DFO projects
• Ensure efficient and effective project management tools and practices are deployed
• Responsible for providing the owner/senior stakeholders project progress including status updates, decisions, and escalation of any issues/risks
• Partner with the Head of the Project Management Office to shape the Project Management team (processes, people best practices, tools, etc.)
• Designing and implementing machines, tools and templates to continually drive for excellence
• Business process optimization
• Provide support and guidance to analysts within the team
• Providing internal team training
• Providing support to operational and strategic reporting across the organization
• Additional duties as assigned

 

Apply for this role if you are:

• Organized, meticulous, able to keep track of lots of moving parts
• Strong problem solver - ability to assess problems/issues and identify solutions
• Practical decision-maker, good common sense
• Ability to hold responsible parties accountable
• Ability to validate information based on experience or other believable parties
• Ability to learn from mistakes – open, reflective, low ego
• Results-oriented, focused on the outcome, able to escalate timely and forcefully
• Ability to manage (as opposed to micromanaging or not managing)
• Adaptable/flexible and good with dealing with ambiguity

 

Illustrative Benefits:    

• 100% company paid medical premiums
• 17 company paid holidays
• Friday summer hours
• Monthly community happy hours
• Hybrid work environment
• Free catered food services for in-office days
• Generous PTO offering 
• Casual dress code
• 150% 401(k) match up to $7,500 and 100% match above $7,500 ($15k match limit)
• Gym reimbursement, back up childcare services, insurance, financial, and legal services, and much more!

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of project management experience, including successful completion of multiple large projects/initiatives and/or successful completion of multiple medium/large projects concurrently
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to interpret data into a clear synthesis
• Familiarity/experience with project management software, such as basic office productivity software such as MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Visio, and SharePoint
• Experience successfully managing 2-4 medium-sized projects concurrently
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