Director, Project Management Office
2 months ago
**Job Title**: Director, Project Management Office
**Department**: Strategic Planning - Project Management Office
**Reports To**:Chief of Strategic Planning
**Supervises**: Up to eight project management and process improvement staff
**Context**: At the Sierra Club, we believe in the power of interdependence. Together, we remain committed to the fight for a healthy climate built on a foundation of environmental, racial, economic, and gender justice - a future where all people benefit from a healthy, thriving planet and a direct connection to nature. As the climate crisis and deeply entrenched systemic racism all fuel injustice, we will continue to fight for a bold, transformational agenda that recognizes the interconnectedness between our planet, our humanity, and our future. By recognizing that our destinies are tied, we continue to name that all things are fundamentally connected, and the overlap between ecology, race, gender, and representative government will move to either advance our collective humanity or to oppress it. Sierra Club has close to 800 staff across the country and a network of 64 local chapters that are led and fueled by thousands of volunteers. We are also proud to be a unionized employer, with three labor unions representing more than half of our employees.
**Scope**: The Director, Project Management Office reports to the Chief of Strategic Planning and works to connect teams, designing and streamlining seamless processes and oversees the project management process, including governance, team leadership, tracking and monitoring, prioritization, communication, risk management, and quality controls. The PMO Director will be responsible for the management of resources, resource allocation and activity tracking. This role seeks to understand, create, document and manage the best way to accomplish the systems and communication of the organization. The Director, Project Management Office is a skilled communicator and adept at business analysis and project implementation. This senior role leads and contributes to projects while providing oversight to the Project Management Office team.
**Job activities include but are not limited to**:
- Design and lead organization-wide change management and high risk initiatives, including resource allocation, project risk management and scope;
- Lead the project governance for the organization and define the project management methodologies that are used to manage those projects;
- They standardize best practices and oversee related business administration, risk management and change management;
- Oversee the execution of projects, programs and portfolio to ensure compliance and alignment with strategic objectives, policies and standards while keeping to schedules, budget and and fostering a culture of continuous improvement;
- Provide regular updates to the Chief Strategy Officer and senior team on the portfolio of key initiatives throughout the Sierra Club;
- Design the strategy for the governance of the portfolio of projects, including the allocation of resources, management of the individual project managers who are responsible for organization-wide projects, and set standards for and in close coordination with project managers working for individual departments;
- Assess and analyze current processes, methods and tools; investigate shortfalls, issues and complaints in and propose solutions to improve overall project management and processes.
- Conduct regular project reviews and audits to assess performance, identify risks and implement corrective adjustments as needed;
- Train, mentor and guide team members in process improvement techniques, project management and share best practices, creating a culture of risk awareness and proactive risk management.
- Develop and maintain positive relationships to identify organizational needs and understand complex organizational structures to have sound project analysis and recommendations.
- Coordinate with teams and produce accurate and comprehensive project work documentation and ensure that current progress is recorded, monitored, managed and reported.
- Stay up to date with developments in management and process optimization.
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Work outside normal hours**:This position will require occasional out-of-town travel. While traveling, it may be required to be present for evening and/or weekend meetings, retreats, or other discrete events.
- ** Project Management**. You are highly skilled in tactical organization, including time, task, and project management, and are able to review and adjust associated metrics to accurately track progress.
- ** Prioritization**. You have the ability to manage competing priorities and work requirements by continuously evaluating the needs of the organization’s mission and annual priorities against on-going work; and planning/scheduling your own work and that of the Strategic Planning unit.
- ** Problem-solving and collaboration**: You have demonstrated ability to use d
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