Strategic Project Lead - Cross-Functional & Lean

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; Rockville (MD); In loco; USD 90.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Rockville, MD seeks a Project Manager in the Office of Business Excellence to lead high-impact, cross-functional projects that advance organizational priorities. You will apply disciplined project management, facilitation, change leadership, and continuous improvement to move work from definition through implementation and measurable results.

You will partner with sponsors, owners, and teams to develop charters, plans, and strategies; coordinate

Competenze

• 5-7 years of progressively responsible project management experience, including demonstrated success leading high-impact, cross-functional projects.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple concurrent initiatives across business functions, senior leaders, subject-matter experts, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting business process improvement, process redesign, or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification preferred; equivalent formal training and demonstrated application may be considered.

Mansioni

• Lead high-impact cross-functional projects and process improvement initiatives from initiation through closeout, establishing clear outcomes, scope, roles, milestones, resources, and success measures.
• Partner with project sponsors, business owners, and project teams to develop project charters, implementation approaches, project plans, and practical strategies.
• Drive project execution by coordinating work across teams; managing schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, scope, resources, budgets, and vendors; facilitating decisions; and proactively addressing barriers to progress.
• Lead and support process improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement methods to understand current-state processes, identify root causes and improvement opportunities, design future-state processes, and support implementation, sustainment, and measurement of results.
• Provide clear and timely project communications and reporting that give sponsors, stakeholders, and leadership visibility into progress, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and actions needed.
• Select and tailor project management approaches based on complexity, risk, and needs of each initiative to drive disciplined execution.
• Coordinate the contributions of staff, consultants, vendors, contractors, and other stakeholders to support effective delivery of assigned initiatives.
• Strengthen OBE's project management and process improvement capabilities through practical standards, tools, templates, lessons learned, and practices that help teams execute work effectively and continuously improve.

Conoscenze

Project leadership

Project planning

Governance

Risk management

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Budget oversight

Process improvement

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PMP certification

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Strumenti

MS Project

SharePoint

Excel

Descrizione del lavoro

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Rockville, MD seeks a Project Manager in the Office of Business Excellence to lead high-impact, cross-functional projects that advance organizational priorities. You will apply disciplined project management, facilitation, change leadership, and continuous improvement to move work from definition through implementation and measurable results.

You will partner with sponsors, owners, and teams to develop charters, plans, and strategies; coordinate