Church Hosting Project Manager - Fixed Term - November 2027

BYU Pathway; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

BYU Pathway in Salt Lake City, UT seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead complex initiatives spanning web, mobile, and exhibits within a mission-driven environment.

You will own project scope, schedule, and budget, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure adherence to Church processes and policies. Strong communication with senior leaders is essential to align objectives and deliver results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• 8 years of relevant work experience, including 6 years in project management.
• Experience managing high-complexity, multi-language projects.
• Ability to communicate with cross-functional teams and senior leaders.
• PMP or other project management certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder management: coordinates expectations of clients and teams.
• Integration management: leads high‑complexity, high‑profile projects.
• Scope management: defines required work for successful outcomes.
• Time management: ensures timely project completion.
• Cost management: keeps projects within approved budgets.
• Quality management: ensures delivery meets needs.
• Human resource management: leads project managers and teams.
• Communications management: ensures proper info generation and sharing.
• Risk management: identifies and responds to project risks.
• Procurement management: acquires goods and services from providers.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

WorkFront Interface

Job description

Salt Lake City, UT, United States (On-site)

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To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

Job Description

Principles of Operation:

Partner to find and create solutions that meet the divinely appointed responsibilities of the Church. Foster an environment of trust and unity. Build upon each other's strengths and ideas to create effective products. Deliver effective and timely communication.

Purpose:

• Clearly understand and communicate project objectives and goals
• Organize the needed resources to meet project requirements
• Owns project-level scope, schedule, and budget
• Ensure projects adhere to Church process and policy equivalent to the sphere of work
• Act as project generalist – may be asked to manage a range of project times (e.g. web, mobile, exhibits, etc)
• Engage when multiple deliverables coalesce into a cohesive whole and end-to-end management is needed

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management: Understands, coordinates, and manages client and resource team expectations.
• Integration Management: Plans, directs, manages, monitors, controls, and closes projects of high complexity and high profile.
• Scope Management: Uses standard processes to ensure projects/programs include all and only the work required to complete the project successfully.
• Time Management: Uses standard processes to ensure the timely completion of projects.
• Cost Management: Uses standard processes to ensure projects are completed within the approved budget.
• Quality Management: Uses standard processes to ensure the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
• Human Resource Management: Uses personal skills and standard processes to make the most effective use of the project team; may include leading a group of project managers.
• Communications Management: Uses standard processes to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. Provides the critical links among people (including senior-level leaders), ideas, and information that are necessary for success.
• Risk Management: Uses standard process to identify, analyze, and respond to project risk.
• Procurement Management: Uses standard processes to acquire goods and services from providers.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of work experience in related field, including 6 years of project management or Master's degree and 6 years of experience.
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget of projects that are typically of high complexity and high profile with many deliverables in many languages.
• Manage and communicate between cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in a project management system, for example WorkFront Interface and communicate with senior-level leaders.
• Lead and manage a group of project managers.

Preferred:

• PMP or other project management certification recognized in specific industries.

About Us

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.

• Job Identification 375819
• Job Category AO - Administration/Operations
• Locations 15 E South Temple St, Salt Lake City, UT, 84150, US (On-site)
• Job Schedule Full time
• Regular or Temporary Regular
• Worker Type Employee
• Number of Openings 1
• Worthiness Qualification Must be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently temple worthy.
• Posting Notice/More Info Please note that this job posting may close at any time without prior notice. Find out more about the many benefits of Church Employment at https://careers.churchofjesuschrist.org.