Description
The Project Manager in the Office of Business Excellence leads high-impact, cross-functional projects and process improvement initiatives that advance ASHA’s strategic and organizational priorities. The position applies disciplined project management, facilitation, change leadership, and continuous improvement practices to move work from definition through implementation and measurable results.
Responsibilities
1. Lead high-impact, cross-functional projects and process improvement initiatives from initiation through closeout, establishing clear outcomes, scope, roles, milestones, resources, and success measures, and appropriate delivery approaches.
2. Partner with project sponsors, business owners, and project teams to develop project charters, implementation approaches, project plans, and practical strategies for achieving intended outcomes.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Provide clear and timely project communications and reporting that give sponsors, stakeholders, and leadership visibility into progress, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and actions needed.
6. Select and tailor project management approaches based on complexity, risk, and needs of each initiative to drive disciplined execution.
7. Coordinate the contributions of staff, consultants, vendors, contractors, and other stakeholders to support effective delivery of assigned initiatives.
8. 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.
