About the position
Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Focus on the Family has nearly 700 employees who work to achieve the mission of enriching the lives of families, engaging the culture, advocating for life, and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The work is meaningful, the culture is rewarding, and the purpose is eternal. The Project Manager 2, ePMO position exists to provide strong and neutral enterprise project leadership and play a role in the definition, coordination, and delivery of all aspects of Focus on the Family enterprise initiatives. These enterprise efforts, with varied sizes and complexities, will require collaborative work with internal support teams, management, and external representatives to ensure that all project team members have complete understanding of the customers' project needs. This position must be aware of the overall direction of the project, timeline, customers' expectations and strategically manage situations that may unexpectedly evolve during the project or in the customer relationship. Essential Duties/Responsibilities include developing and maintaining strong, effective stakeholder relationships, monitoring perceptions of deliverables, and providing stakeholders with education and options when challenges arise during projects. The Project Manager will manage enterprise ministry projects based on Focus on the Family's ministry-wide processes and gather appropriate signoffs on project control documents. They will work with the Master Scheduler to ensure the day-to-day accuracy and maintenance of the Enterprise Project Management Office's initiatives, analyze project documents for realistic objectives, scope, timeline, and process, and identify and mitigate items impacting the successful delivery of projects including impacts to timelines, budget, quality, etc. The role also involves monitoring, tracking, and reporting all actual results against baseline plans, owning the process of tracking and communicating appropriately all issues, risks, and action items, and being actively involved in risk avoidance with detailed mitigation and contingency plans. The Project Manager is responsible for up-to-date weekly communications of project status to appropriate leadership and project stakeholders, performing various project creation and maintenance activities, and ensuring that initiatives and activities are supported by hyper-detailed project documentation as well as post-project activities including project assessment and documentation.
Responsibilities
- Develops and maintains strong, effective stakeholder relationships.
- Monitors perceptions of deliverables and provides stakeholders with education and options when challenges arise during projects.
- Manages enterprise ministry projects based on Focus on the Family's ministry-wide processes and gathers appropriate signoffs on project control documents.
- Works with Master Scheduler to ensure the day-to-day accuracy and maintenance of the Enterprise Project Management Office's initiatives.
- Analyzes project documents for realistic objectives, scope, timeline, and process with all appropriate management levels.
- Identifies and mitigates items impacting the successful delivery of projects including impacts to timelines, budget, quality, etc.
- Monitors, tracks, and reports all actual results against baseline plans.
- Owns the process of tracking and communicating appropriately all issues, risks, and action items.
- Actively involved in risk avoidance and reports regularly with detailed mitigation and contingency plans.
- Responsible for up-to-date weekly communications of project status to appropriate leadership and project stakeholders.
- Performs various project creation and maintenance activities including assisting with the development of project plans, project charters, data flow/process flow charts, communication matrix, risk assessments, work breakdown structures, timelines, and any other template documents required for projects.
- Ensures that initiatives and activities are supported by hyper-detailed project documentation as well as post-project activities including project assessment and documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Project Management or equivalent experience/certifications.
- 4-6 years project management experience in the Internet/Intranet/IT industry and/or Enterprise PMO.
- Knowledge of basic PMI project management methodology, or equivalent.
- Formal training in scope management, risk management, advanced scheduling, and software quality best practices.
- Competency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Power Point, Visio, Internet Browsers.
- PMP Certified through PMI, preferred.
Nice-to-haves
- Ability to manage multiple projects at various stages.
- Ability to resolve conflicts, disagreements, and misunderstandings.
- Skilled communicator and negotiator.
- Excellent organizational and administrative skills.
- Viewed as an emerging leader across the ministry.
- Flexibility and adaptability to change.
- Ability to encourage and motivate personnel.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to assemble clear, concise, and accurate project documentation.
- Lead project teams to successful project completion.
- Ability to work with little supervision.
- Ability to multi-task.
- Process-thinking skills.
- Maintain a cool and calm demeanor under pressure.
Benefits
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee assistance program
- Vision insurance
- 403(b)
- Life insurance
