Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Covenant House International is dedicated to ending homelessness among youth and young families. The Senior Project Manager will play a crucial role in translating strategic priorities into actionable work plans and ensuring leadership has visibility into project progress and challenges.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, implementation timelines, and workplans for the Strategy team and The Journey Home (TJH) initiatives
- Manage and continuously improve Smartsheet systems, dashboards, reports, and workflows used to monitor projects within the Strategy team, including TJH implementation
- Track progress toward TJH goals, objectives, targets, and deliverables at both the CHI and site levels
- Coordinate implementation of Strategy’s activities across CHI departments and sites
- Partner with local Covenant House site leaders to monitor local implementation of TJH priorities and identify opportunities to accelerate progress
- Collect, synthesize, and communicate progress updates from Covenant House sites and CHI departments
- Develop executive dashboards, status reports, presentations, and briefing materials for senior leadership and other stakeholders
- Monitor project risks, dependencies, barriers, and resource needs and escalate issues as appropriate
- Facilitate meetings, including preparation of agendas, materials, action items, and follow-up communications
- Maintain project documentation, decision logs, implementation records, and accountability systems
- Support cross-site learning by identifying and sharing promising practices, implementation successes, and lessons learned
- Promote alignment between site-level initiatives and federation-wide strategic priorities
- Support continuous improvement efforts related to strategic planning, implementation, performance management, and organizational learning
Skills
- Significant project management experience, including management of large, complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Advanced proficiency in Smartsheet, including dashboards, reports, workflows, automations, and project tracking tools
- Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to work effectively across departments, teams, and organizational levels
- Experience creating executive-level reports, dashboards, and project status updates
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and virtual collaboration platforms
- Commitment to Covenant House's mission and values
- Minimum of 5–7 years of project management experience
- Demonstrated experience managing large-scale strategic initiatives involving multiple stakeholders
- Advanced experience using Smartsheet as a project management and reporting platform
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience working in nonprofit, human services, education, public sector, or related environments
- Experience supporting strategic plan implementation, organizational change, or multi-site initiatives
Benefits
- Fully Remote
- Ability to travel once per year to New York City in early October for our annual in-person traditions
- Ability and willingness to travel to various site and office locations up to 20% of the time
- If you have a disability or medical condition and need a reasonable accommodation, such as an ASL interpreter or a different interview format, or if you have physical accessibility needs, let us know. Contact us at 1-929-502-2521, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern Time or email us at [email protected].
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