Director, Strategic Portfolio Management

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The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
 

Grade: Management_Executive 611

Pay Range: $136,700.00 - $246,000.00

Job Description

Job Profile Summary

At WGU, Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) is a team responsible for the processes, business capabilities, and outcomes that aid in selecting and executing the best set of investments (large-scale business initiatives, major transformation programs/projects, or significant strategy execution events) required to meet the strategic goals of WGU.  The Director of SPM, and the SPM team, work directly with WGU executive leadership to ensure that funded and prioritized initiatives, programs, or projects are aligned to our long-term strategic goals and capability roadmaps.  The Director of SPM uses a strategy driven approach to ensure strategy-to-execution alignment of annual operating plans and multi-year roadmaps across the entire WGU system.  The SPM team provides frameworks for standardizing, measuring, and reporting on initiatives, programs, and projects ensuring they tie to the universities’ broader strategic goals.  SPM coordinates with the other business level and product level Portfolio/Program/Project Management teams in WGU to help standardize practices, methods, and processes ensuring efficient portfolio operations and overall aligned governance to best practices.  The Director of SPM ensures a ‘single source of truth’ for updates to WGU Executive Leadership and the WGU Board, as requested.  

The team reporting to the Director of SPM is divided into two sub-teams each lead by a manager or senior manager, both directly reporting into the Director of SPM.  The first sub-team is a group of Portfolio Managers which own and execute the strategic portfolio management functions.  The second sub-team is a group of Business Transformation Managers (BTM) which are responsible for leading and managing the transformation initiatives, programs, or projects to deliver organizational change, improvement, and innovation at WGU.  The BTM team works closely with senior executive leadership to identify and document transformation opportunities, to develop detailed execution plans, and to own the successful implementation of the change and transformation plans.  The BTP team oversee some of the highest level, most impactful, transformation work across the WGU system in director support of senior executive leadership.  

The Director of Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) reports to the Vice President of Institutional Portfolio Management (IPM).  The VP of IPM reports into the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and leads the functions of Business Process Management, Facilities Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Enterprise Change Management, as well as Strategic Portfolio Management.

Primary Responsibilities

This job description includes a general representation of job requirements rather than a comprehensive inventory of all required responsibilities or work activities.  The contents of this document or related job requirements may change at any time with or without notice.

• Executive reporting on portfolio and transformation status (weekly, monthly, and quarterly).  Development of on-line executive dashboards and reports to enable executive level self-service status checking.   
• Leads the coordination, execution, and reporting of portfolio status during the annual operations planning process for the operational, strategic, and innovation portfolios. 
• Coordinates and leads the annual