Senior Project Manager, Aina Pauahi

Job Posting Title

Senior Project Manager, Aina Pauahi

Employee Type

Regular

Recruiting Start Date

09-09-2025

Job Exempt?

Yes

Recruiting End Date

Open Until Filled

Aloha mai!  Mahalo for your interest in Kamehameha Schools.  If you are looking for an opportunity to utilize your skills and talents and grow in your profession, while serving and strengthening our Native Hawaiian community, we would love to have you join our ʻohana!

Kamehameha Schools is hiring a Senior Project Manager to support fire mitigation efforts across its land portfolio. This hybrid role requires expertise in Emergency and Disaster Management and strong ties to the Emergency Response community. The position focuses on developing strategic, data-driven fire risk plans, coordinating with stakeholders, and ensuring long-term safety and resilience through proactive land management.

Job Summary

Responsible for developing and leading strategic projects and initiatives that enhance, improve and mitigate risk across KS’ aina portfolio. Manages and ensures effective and timely execution of all aspects of projects including financial feasibility, fiscal management, planning, and implementation, relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and other activities that enhance the value and return on investment of KS’ real estate portfolio. Conducts detailed due diligence, negotiates planning and implementation, assesses, and manages project-level risks, and establishes and maintains relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Works with the division to lead and implement strategic initiatives, provides support on key projects, and works with team members across the 'Aina Pauahi Group and broader enterprise.

Essential Responsibilities

Strategy Development & Integration

• Leads strategy development and planning efforts.

• Researches, interprets, analyzes, and evaluates data and presents business and financial information to inform and influence of strategic recommendations and decision-making.

• Using project management, analysis, and business process skills plan, deliver on, evaluates, and lead multiple critical strategic initiatives across the group.

• Initiates and develops implementation programs and leads multidisciplinary team to execute initiative/project deliverables including budget and cost management.

• Performs effective diagnosis and accurate analysis of issues for the purpose of creating short- and long-term strategies to fulfill portfolio planning, area planning and asset planning requirements, including assessment of leading industry practices and their application to KS.

Implementation, Operations & Management

• Tracks projects, provides project updates, coordinates status of assignments with others, and prioritizes work for complex projects.

• Coordinates multiple implementation efforts across assigned portfolio of resource assets in alignment with applicable plans. Monitors performance metrics over time and revises implementation plans as needed for assigned portfolio of resource assets.

• Independently negotiates critical high-value sector, land use and resource management agreements. Performs relevant due diligence for a portfolio of strategic projects, including transactions and partnerships.  Assesses and manages risk and compliance for assigned portfolio of projects.

• May supervise a small unit of staff, including resource managers, operations staff, interns and/or office administrative staff. Prioritizes and allocates resources between and within projects and programs under management in alignment with KS’ strategic goals.

Accountability & Reporting

• Reports portfolio-level financial and operating activities, including operating budgets, variances, trend analysis, cost control, expenditures, and progress toward plan goals. Reports portfolio-level risk and compliance management programs and activities

• Manages and implements strategy-level performance measurement, evaluation, monitoring and reporting to update and inform leadership on organization performance, work progress and active/emerging issues or initiatives.

Communications, Teamwork & Strategic Alliances

• As a team member, communicates and collaborates with cross-functional teams and KS staff on status of projects, plans, investments, and programs. Convenes, attends, and facilitates internal and external meetings and represents KS’ organization-wide interests at external me