Director, AI-Driven Enterprise Portfolio Enablement - Remote

International Justice Mission; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision

Commuter and parking benefits

Retirement options

Paid leave starting at 23 days

Holidays and time off

Spiritual formation programs

Staff care resources

Job summary

International Justice Mission is seeking a Director of Enterprise Portfolio Enablement to translate strategy into executable work. You will establish lightweight yet effective portfolio standards, drive disciplined planning, and embed AI-enabled tools to scale planning across pathways, regions, and country offices.

You will lead governance, sequencing, and prioritization for enterprise initiatives while partnering with senior leaders to reduce risk and improve outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in portfolio management, program management, strategy execution, organizational effectiveness, enterprise transformation, or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience designing and implementing portfolio management approaches that improve organizational prioritization, coordination, decision-making, and execution.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, facilitate enterprise-level discussions, and build alignment across diverse stakeholders without formal authority.
• Demonstrated experience translating strategic priorities into executable plans and governance mechanisms that drive measurable results.
• Experience developing practical systems, processes, and tools that increase organizational effectiveness while minimizing unnecessary complexity and administrative burden.
• Portfolio management and strategic planning support.
• Enterprise prioritization, dependency management, and initiative sequencing.
• Organizational capacity planning and change load analysis.
• Project and program management methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Data analysis and synthesis to support strategic decision-making.
• Executive presentation development, meeting facilitation, and written communications.
• Strong proficiency with portfolio management platforms such as Asana, Smartsheet, or similar tools and with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, and SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise project management standards and best practices for strategic initiatives that are practical, scalable, and lightweight.
• Promote a culture of disciplined planning, clear prioritization, healthy risk management, strong communication, change management, systematic feedback loops, and measurement.
• Partner with Pathway and Regional Portfolio Managers to embed standards and increase organizational maturity in project and program management.
• Continually assess what is working and simplify or improve practices that create unnecessary burden.
• Develop AI-enabled tools and approaches to support project planning, portfolio reviews, and integrated planning.
• Establish practical processes and principles for estimating BAU, identifying dependencies, and setting capacity thresholds that inform prioritization and sequencing decisions.
• Advise Pathway and Regional Portfolio Managers as they develop and manage their portfolios.
• Build a connected community of Portfolio Managers across IJM that shares practices, solves problems together, and continually strengthens portfolio management capability.
• Design and lead workplan integration across pathways, regions, and countries with focus on Enterprise Calendar governance for travel, training, and change initiatives at country offices.
• Ensure project development, implementation, communications, and change activities are paced to maximize adoption and minimize overload.
• Provide analysis and recommendations regarding change load, organizational capacity, implementation risk, and initiative timing.
• Surface cross-functional risks, dependencies, and collisions early and support leadership in resolving tradeoffs.
• Strengthen visibility into enterprise work and support intentional prioritization and sequencing of strategic initiatives across the organization.
• Participation in IJM's community of spiritual formation.

Skills

Portfolio management

Strategic planning

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Change management

Data analysis

AI-enabled tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Asana

Smartsheet

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

International Justice Mission is seeking a Director of Enterprise Portfolio Enablement to translate strategy into executable work. You will establish lightweight yet effective portfolio standards, drive disciplined planning, and embed AI-enabled tools to scale planning across pathways, regions, and country offices.

You will lead governance, sequencing, and prioritization for enterprise initiatives while partnering with senior leaders to reduce risk and improve outcomes.