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American Red Cross · 3 hours ago

Senior Project Manager (Term-Limited)

The American Red Cross is the world's largest humanitarian network, dedicated to helping millions of lives every year. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to support the Humanitarian Services Project Management Office by managing complex projects, guiding project teams through all phases, and ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.

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Responsibilities

Oversee project team members’ milestones and performance as compared to project plan, scope, budget, resources, and schedule. Manage project risks, issues, and dependencies proactively
Communicate project progress and information to senior sponsors, stakeholders, and field as appropriate
Facilitate executive steering committees and status updates
Develop and prepare written project plans for complex projects addressing tasks, roles and responsibilities, risk, resources, budget and communications
Develop work breakdown structure and perform critical path analysis
Manage the change control within project, obtaining sponsor approval for changes to scope, budget and schedule that effect the critical path
Acquire a project charter from senior management and obtain sign off on the statement of work by the project sponsor
Ensure that scope, budget, and schedule targets are within variance and project delivery date is met
Navigate ambiguity in relationships across multiple departments to successfully bring people together when needed for project success
Coaching project team on how to use PM methodology, templates, and tools
Support portfolio-level planning and resource allocation
Provide input into business case development and prioritization
Help define and implement PMO processes, templates, and tools; and contribute to the development of project governance frameworks
Provide and promote project management best practices throughout Humanitarian Services
Collaborate within the Humanitarian Service PMO office to ensure there are clearly defined project dependency and interdependencies, lessons learned library, and monitoring risks spanning multiple projects

Qualification

PMP certificationProject managementVolunteer managementMS Office proficiencyInterpersonal skillsVerbal communicationWritten communicationRemote teamwork

Required

Bachelor's degree required
PMP (Project Management Professional) certification required
Minimum 7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
Ability to develop project plans, budgets, and strategies to achieve organizational goals
Proficiency with MS Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Ability to work on a remote team
Some travel may be required

Preferred

Volunteer management experience preferred
Experience working with executive leadership (VP and up)

Benefits

Medical, Dental Vision plans
Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
PTO: Starting at 19 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
401K with up to 6% match
Paid Family Leave
Employee Assistance
Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
Service Awards and recognition

Company

American Red Cross

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American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization whose purpose is to meet the immediate disaster-caused needs of people and communities.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$43.31M
Key Investors
Kia MotorsAvista foundationAmerican Water Charitable Foundation
2025-05-12Grant
2025-04-21Grant· $0.01M
2025-04-17Grant· $0.01M

Leadership Team

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Mary J. Barneby
Regional CEO American Red Cross Greater New York
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Adrienne Alberts
VP, HR Operations
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