Senior Project Manager

Department
85000 Wake Forest University Health Sciences - Academic Deans Office

Status
Full time

Benefits Eligible
Yes

Hours Per Week
40

Schedule Details/Additional Information
NA

Pay Range
$ $64.95

The Senior Project Manager position at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Advocate Health is a pivotal role reporting directly to the Chief of Staff for the Dean and Chief Academic Officer. Responsible for leading complex, cross-departmental initiatives, the Senior Project Manager ensures projects are strategically aligned with institutional goals through disciplined project management practices. This highly visible position oversees all phases of project delivery—including planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting—while also providing critical support to the Chief of Staff on special initiatives. The role requires expert coordination of resources, effective risk management, rigorous progress tracking, and consistent communication with stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes

Education/Experience
Bachelor's Degree required, Master's degree preferred. 10+ years' experience in project management required.

Essential Functions

• Lead full scale initiatives from concept to implementation for system-wide impact, including planning, overseeing, and monitoring projects to ensure progress and deliverables to senior leaders. Act as a primary project contact/liaison to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives.
• Direct multiple stakeholders to collaborate on project scope, deliverables, goals, risks, blockers, success measures, and resources needed.
• Oversee initiative deliverables to ensure projects remain in-scope and have resources allocated to deliver on the system-wide scale as needed.
• Responsible for ensuring project communication principles are adhered to, including artifacts like charters, schedules, and budgets, as appropriate and necessary for assigned projects.
• Present project milestones and deliverables to stakeholders and senior leaders. Assess risk with projects looking at both short-term and long-term impact, to gain leader insight as initiatives and priorities shift with changing business needs.
• Lead communications with senior leaders, project team members, and other stakeholders, to actively solicit and address stakeholder and project team feedback.
• Advise and support business development efforts to create project proposals, RFPs, estimates, and schedules, as appropriate.
• Oversee initiatives to ensure adherence to legally binding requirements, as appropriate.
• Design and deliver project metrics for initiatives, to ensure senior leaders and organizational impact is understood and planned for across the system.
• Lead initiative review meetings with stakeholders to ensure progress and project milestones are planned for, communicated, met, and advanced.
• Address technical and operational delays or system issues with appropriate subject matter experts, in order to proactively resolve potential project challenges or delays.
• Mentor project management team to share resources, provide guidance, develop tools and processes to support the success of less senior project managers.

Skills/Qualifications

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to navigate in a highly matrixed environment
• Possesses strong knowledge of project management principles

Work Environment
Each teammate has the responsibility to work in a safe manner. Work requires frequent moving from one area to another, coordinating, and communicating with persons in various disciplines and agencies. Frequent walking, standing and climbing may be required.

Physical Requirements
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Our CommitmenttoYou
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
• Incentive pay for select positions
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits And More

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, andShort- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation's largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.

Senior project management leader responsible for driving all aspects of large-scale academic initiatives on behalf of Wake Forest University School of Medicine across the Advocate Health system. The Senior Project Manager is an expert project manager, with deep experience driving cross-organizational and enterprise-level initiatives across multi-region stakeholders.The Senior Project Manager will rely on project management expertise and principles to drive progress in system-wide initiatives for which the organization's most senior leaders are the key stakeholders. Regular partnership with enterprise leaders is expected to successfully lead and implement the portfolio of institutional projects that have Enterprise-wide impact.