Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Eaton is seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Senior Project Manager with the American Red Cross. This role involves managing complex projects within the Humanitarian Services Project Management Office, overseeing project teams, and ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.

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

Skills

• Bachelors degree required
• PMP certification required
• 7+ years of related exp or equivalent 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
• Volunteer management experience preferred
• Experience working with executive leadership (VP and up)

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