Project Manager position for Non-Profit Methodist Children's Home- Decatur, GA/East Atlanta
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Location | East Atlanta/Decatur, GA 30030 |
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Career Keywords | project management, business process, reports, analyze, analytics, metrics, performance metrics, reports, data gathering, requirements, documentation, trends, budget management, MS Project, Visio, Excel |
Choose Metro Atlanta Location | METRO Atlanta |
State | Georgia |
How to Apply | Apply Online at Website Listed |
How to Apply for this Position | Apply directly online at http://bit.ly/UMCHOnlineCareerCenter |
Submit Resume to: | Apply Directly online at http://bit.ly/UMCHOnlineCareerCenter |
Description
Project Manager position for Non-Profit - Methodist Children's Home- Decatur, GA/East Atlanta
Title: Project Manager
Reports to: Vice President of Operations
Status: Exempt
Location: East Atlanta/Decatur, GA
Are you ready to fully utilize your skills and experience to help transform an organization and make a real difference in the lives of others?
Come join our dynamic and growing organization with a strong legacy of organizational and financial stability. We provide meaningful, positive change that dramatically impacts the lives of children and families within the North Georgia community. Maximize your project management skills and experience to deliver organizational and program related projects to schedule, budget, and quality. Become part of our team and experience the true joy of helping us effectively fulfill our mission: to help children to heal emotionally and spiritually, to unite families and to bring the wholeness of God’s love to each of them through Jesus Christ.
Organization
The United Methodist Children’s Home - An Exciting and Important Ministry
The United Methodist Children’s Home is a safe haven for children, youth and their families, and we have been since the founding of the organization in 1871. Our stable, resilient organization has a strong foundation and legacy as a steadfast source of hope and healing to those whom we serve.
We provide a loving and safe home for abused and neglected children in the state foster care system. Our service offerings include Foster Care and Adoption for children of all ages, Independent and Transitional Living for older youth, Nurturing Connections Second Chance Program for parenting teens and their babies, and Higher Education assistance.
We also work to prevent abuse and strengthen families and believe that the best way to provide a safe and loving home for a child is to help create that same safe and loving experience in his or her own family. Our family preservation services – Family Counseling, Parenting Classes, Financial Aid and residential Family Housing – help families stay together and become stronger. Our summer and after-school program, Jesse’s House, also provides a safe place for children. Whether through adoption, reunification, staying together or standing independently, we help our children, teens and families find their permanent home.
History:
The United Methodist Children’s Home has a rich history of serving children and families in our area. The Home was originally established in 1871 to care for children orphaned during the Civil War. Originally called the Methodist Orphans’ Home and located in Norcross, the Home moved in 1873 to our present location in Decatur. By the early 1930s, the Home was serving large numbers of children who could not be termed “orphans”; therefore, in 1934 the trustees approved changing the name to Methodist Children’s Home. Elementary students continued in the on-campus school until about 1950, when they were absorbed into the DeKalb County system.
In 1977, the United Methodist Children’s Home opened the first district office in Augusta to better serve children and families throughout north Georgia. The district office in Dalton opened in 1984, the office in Rome opened in 1996, and the office in Gainesville opened in 2006. Over the years, the Children’s Home began offering additional programs and services to children, teens and families.
In 2010, the United Methodist Children’s Home made significant changes to the program offerings, including the Family Housing program on our campus and the addition of a new program in 2011: Jesse’s House (an after-school program and summer day for under-served children). We also serve increasing numbers of older youth in our Independent Living and Transitional Living programs, and children and youth of all ages in Foster Care.
Today, we are again in the midst of exciting organizational change! UMCH is working to build increased awareness in the community for our programs and services and to increase funding designed to help us strengthen existing programs and services and provide new offerings to serve even more children and families in our area.
Mission:
To provide redemptive, healing services that bring meaningful change to the lives of children and families. Grounded by scripture and the tradition of the church, we seek to bring the wholeness of God’s love to persons through Christ.
Position Summary
Reporting to the Vice President of Operations, the Project Manager will be responsible for delivering organizational and program related projects to schedule, budget, and quality. The role requires a mastery of the technical knowledge of project management stages (initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control, and close) and the supporting processes (scope, cost, time, issue, risk, resource and stakeholder management) combined with excellent stakeholder relationship management skills. The Project Manager will be a hands-on, results-oriented change agent who is a driven, innovative thinker and servant-leader. Leadership experience, combined with a strong passion for the vision, mission and goals of the United Methodist Children’s Home (UMCH) as well as for the staff served, is critical to success in this role.
This is a full-time opportunity working onsite in the offices at the UMCH headquarters in Decatur, Georgia.
PLEASE NOTE: LOCAL ATLANTA CANDIDATES ONLY - No relocation assistance is available for this opportunity.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Works with the Executive Team, Administration, and Program management to develop project charters that define organizational objectives and establish appropriate project scope.
• Works with and leads project teams to translate and communicate project objectives and scope into specific business requirements and processes that can be integrated into a detailed project plan
• Sets clear expectations on a daily basis for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, providing all proper materials and documentation as necessary
• Manages project team in a matrixed structure – direct management of tasks, indirect management of resources based on priorities
• Manages projects to schedule and proactively takes steps to mitigate and resolve schedule conflicts
• Identifies and reports project risks and dependencies that may occur throughout the project lifecycle, escalates issues appropriately as required for timely resolution
• Leads project status meetings and supports management with project related communications
• Manage project reporting (status, quality, budget) including maintaining metrics as required for the Balanced Scorecard
• Works with Administration and Program management to identify and document functional business requirements
• Participates in the development of UMCH’s direction, plans, and programs as a partner to the executive leadership team, with a special emphasis on the fulfillment of organizational objectives.
Supervision and Responsibility
• Position reports to Vice President of Operations
• Direct reports: none
Other Functions
• Perform other duties and ad hoc assignments as defined by the executive team.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related discipline required
• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a project manager with deep knowledge of project management methodologies.
• Experience developing detailed work plans and requirements specifications, addressing resource allocation issues, documenting processes and running project meetings
• Strong problem solving, negotiation and conflict resolution skills required
• Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively cultivating, developing and building strong relationships and motivating staff across all levels in an organization
• Experience working effectively in a matrix environment with proven ability to get things done without having direct responsibility for managing the resources.
• Good organizational and time management skills with proven ability to quickly learn new processes while managing multiple projects
• Excellent analytical skill focused on scope, work breakdown and resource allocation prioritization.
• Excellent communication skills: able to listens and understand complex problems and offers solutions
• Experience building reports and analyzing output data and trends
• Experience managing a budget including reporting on performance metrics preferred
Computer Skills
• Microsoft Office – strong proficiency using Project, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Preferred Certifications, Training, Skills and Experience
• PMP certification preferred
Contacts:
• Internal: Executive leadership, Administration & Program staff
• External: Volunteers, Vendors, Local and State Regulatory Authorities
Ideal Candidate Attributes
• Strong passion and affinity for UMCH’s vision and mission and constituents
• Hands-On, self-directed, results oriented leader who enjoys a fast-paced environment and is effective at driving change and creating structure in a challenging environment
• Ability to be flexible and work hard, both independently and in a team environment
• Innovative and change oriented leader, highly professional with ability and organizational expertise to effectively inspire staff at all levels in the organization
• Strong inter-personal skills with knowledge and experience successfully resolving conflicts
• Relationship builder with flexibility and finesse to “manage by influence”
• Sincere commitment to work collaboratively with all staff and volunteers
• Balanced approach to work
Compensation and Benefits
United Methodist Children’s Home offers a competitive salary plus bonus incentives program and benefits package including:
• Major medical insurance covered 100% for UMCH employee
• Discounted family medical coverage program
• Optional dental and vision plan
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Paid company holidays
• Vacation and sick days accrual program
• Defined contribution benefit pension program
• 403b plan
Please, NO phone calls or third party recruiting agency submittals or inquiries.
Due to the volume of applicant submissions, we regret that we are unable to respond to each inquiry. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will reach out to you concerning details and next steps.
How to apply
Click on the link below to visit the Online Career Center website where you may register, view a listing of our current open positions and apply by submitting a copy of your most current resume and cover letter including salary history and requirements.
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