The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The Human Resources team is dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We tackle complex challenges, continually exploring new methods and embracing changes that lead to optimal results. As part of our team, you will collaborate with a diverse group of HR professionals who are committed to delivering a superior employee experience, focusing on client needs, and maintaining fair and consistent practices for everyone.

*This position is a limited-term position for 24 months. Relocation will not be provided.

Your Role

You are responsible for helping support the design, management, and execution of a wide range of core business and operational processes and projects ranging from sophisticated, strategically significant projects across business processes, teams, and functions to projects within functions or programs. You help provide project and program management support, manage roadmaps, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure projects deliver the expected scope and business value on schedule. You may also serve as a business or product owner on a specific or limited set of products, programs, or processes and provide strategic thought partnership and project management support for other division-wide activities.

What You’ll Do

• Find opportunities to operate more efficiently and better serve the division, propose potential projects, and partner with team members to complete projects and make improvements.
• Develop portfolio-level deliverables and supervise status, including document and communications creation, presentation preparation, logistical support, and SharePoint management.
• Monitor progress and impact and partner with project, program, and process leads to assess course corrections and plan adjustments.
• Build and manage project management infrastructure needed to support team.
• Serve as a point of contact for communications-related efforts within portfolio teams.
• Provide project management and execution support for division-level onboarding and division-wide learning events, including All Staff experiences, speakers, and trainings.
• Develop and implement a knowledge management strategy for centrally-created and maintained resources within the Office of the CHRO.
• Ensure projects are driven in line with foundation guidelines, processes, and policies.
• Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; advance issues promptly to appropriate partners.

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Your Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Project Management Professional certification preferred.
• Ability to track and handle formal and informal intersections and interdependencies, upstream/downstream effects, and identify future implications across the end-to-end system to support roadmap management and strategic prioritization.
• Advanced knowledge of succinctly communicating key strategic objectives and performance goals and consistently building momentum for a project across teams in a dynamic environment with competing priorities.
• Understanding of the business benefits of projects and operational processes and the linkage between project/program goals and organizational strategy and drivers.
• Solid knowledge and expertise applying standard project management and change management frameworks (PMI, Agile, Waterfall, etc.) for successful project delivery across the full project lifecycle
• Experience in program, process, and project definition and management.
• Experience leading multiple projects simultaneously, including project definition, planning and scoping the work, and coordinating and developing appropriate solutions.

The salary range for this role is $113,600 to $170,400USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $123,800to $185,600USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Candidate Accommodations

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.