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About the Role

The ACLU seeks a Project Manager for the Learning & Project Solutions (LPS) Team at the National office in New York, NY. This hybrid, term-limited role focuses on ensuring high-impact projects are planned effectively, integrate organizational values, and meet strategic goals and deadlines. The position is part of a collective bargaining unit represented by ACLU Staff United (ASU).

Responsibilities

• Develop project plans including detailed steps for implementation, process definition, user roll out, training, and communications
• Manage project schedule to ensure project is on time, in scope, and within budget
• Manage project budgets and resource allocations
• Identify risks, troubleshoot project issues and recommend effective, business oriented, and strategic solutions
• Communicate with stakeholders about project status, issues, deadlines, and changes
• Manage project close out steps and post-mortems
• Support or supplement projects with business analyst activities, such as collaborating with stakeholders to identify business needs and translate them into documented requirements
• Document current-state processes and design and document future-state processes
• Engage with stakeholders to gather insights into business objectives, processes, and pain points
• Develop project communication plans and draft communications
• Participate in Project Management Working Group to create project management resources, trainings, and practices
• Support Learning and Project Solutions team internal operations through process design and documentation
• Support departmental and working group communications through development and execution of communication plans and intranet presence
• Support development of project management related trainings through content design and delivery
• Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Proven track records of successful system and process implementations in complex environments
• Demonstrated experience integrating strategy into project management practices and execution
• Excellent organizational skills with an ability to multi task, reprioritize, and quickly identify project risks and issues
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to compose, edit, and proof correspondence and documents
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make the ambiguous clear
• Ability to communicate effectively across all levels of an organization
• Experience with process improvement analysis
• Ability to represent the organization and communicate professionally with ACLU staff and other colleagues, maintaining tact, diplomacy, and confidentiality
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team, and foster a team-focused environment that encourages collaboration and peer support
• Experience with technical systems and implementation projects a plus
• Experience in a large complex nonprofit organization desirable
• Minimum of three to five years related experience
• Committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
• Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
• Committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflicts

Skills

• Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Communication
• Process Improvement
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk Management
• Budget Management
• Resource Allocation
• Technical Systems Implementation

Location

• New York, NY

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid
• Term-limited

Experience Level

• Minimum of three to five years related experience

Salary/Compensations

• $112,584 (Level H)

Benefits

• Generous paid time-off policy
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits (including medical, dental and vision coverage, parental leave, gender affirming care & fertility treatment)
• 401k plan and employer match
• Annual professional development funds, internal professional development programs and workshops

About the Company

• For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
• The Business Operations and Support Services department works to enable organizational and operational effectiveness by partnering with ACLU staff across the enterprise to develop core business operations, training programs, and support services needed to maximize resources, evaluate and mitigate risk, ensure accessibility and inclusion, and achieve the organization’s strategic goals.

Equal Opportunity

• Accessibility, equity, diversity and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all.
• We are committed to anti-oppression, anti-ableism, and anti-racism internally as we are externally.
• We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
• The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.