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About the Role

The ACLU seeks a Senior Project Manager to ensure high-impact projects are planned effectively, integrate organizational values and compliance priorities, and meet strategic goals and deadlines. This role serves as a strategic partner to business units, focusing on project strategy, project management, and business analysis. The position also contributes to developing organizational project management standards and practices.

Responsibilities

Partner with business units to develop project plans that meet strategic goals and integrate organizational values, best practices, and compliance requirements.
Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables.
Work with LPS team and department leadership to define and integrate organizational priorities and requirements into standard project management practices.
Participate in Project Management Working Group with project managers across the organization to create project management resources, trainings, and practices to support organizational effectiveness.
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.
Facilitate project meetings ensuring clear goals, agendas, and next steps.
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 communication plans and draft communications.
Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Proven track record of successfully leading systems and process implementations in complex environments.
Demonstrated experience integrating strategy into project management practices and execution.
Comfort with leading cross departmental projects.
Excellent organizational skills with an ability to multitask, 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 five years related experience.
PMP Certification.

Skills

Project strategy
Project management
Business analysis
Process improvement
Communication
Organizational skills
Risk identification
Problem-solving

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior
Minimum of five years related experience

Salary/Compensations

$128,294

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 ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.
We know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and know that what we offer is essential not just their work, but to their overall well-being.

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 a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability.
We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible.
We are as 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.