HR Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee a substantial portfolio of simultaneous HR projects spanning various functional areas.

• Ensure consolidated visibility of the portfolio, including project status, milestones, resources, risks, dependencies, and upcoming decisions.

• Develop and implement uniform project management standards, tools, templates, and governance for HR initiatives.

• Assist in project intake and prioritization by offering insights into resource needs, dependencies, timing, and capacity.

• Recognize conflicting priorities and resource limitations, escalating issues to HR leadership when necessary.

• Direct projects from initiation through planning, execution, implementation, and closure.

• Create detailed project plans outlining scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, milestones, resources, dependencies, and responsibilities.

• Define roles and accountability within project teams.

• Coordinate efforts across HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Operations, Communications, consultants, vendors, and other stakeholders.

• Lead project meetings, working sessions, status reviews, and decision-making discussions.

• Monitor commitments, actions, deliverables, project documentation, decision logs, and project records.

• Provide support for HR technology, processes, policies, compliance, Total Rewards, talent management, employee experience, and additional initiatives.

• Oversee HR workstreams that involve system enhancements, implementations, integrations, and optimizations, including Workday.

• Manage requirements gathering, testing, user acceptance testing, communications, training readiness, implementation planning, and post-launch activities.

• Identify and manage resource requirements, capacity, conflicts, competing priorities, and inter-project dependencies.

• Coordinate external consultants and vendors in alignment with project plans and deliverables.

• Identify, document, monitor, communicate, and mitigate project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.

• Manage modifications to project scope, schedule, resources, and deliverables through project governance.

• Build relationships across Human Resources and with cross-functional business partners.

• Develop communication strategies and convert project information into updates for HR and senior leadership.

• Promote cross-functional collaboration and ensure stakeholder alignment.

• Create dashboards, status reports, portfolio summaries, leadership updates, project health indicators, and governance reviews.

• Monitor project outcomes and conduct closeouts as well as lessons-learned reviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must successfully pass a background investigation.

• Proven experience managing multiple projects simultaneously with competing priorities, resources, and stakeholders.

• Experience in managing projects that involve various functional areas and levels of leadership.

• Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies, tools, and practices.

• Demonstrated experience in developing project plans, managing risks and dependencies, coordinating resources, and delivering leadership-level project reporting.

• Bachelor's degree required.

• Minimum of three (3+) years of progressive project management experience overseeing complex, cross-functional initiatives.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is highly preferred.

• Previous experience within Human Resources or managing HR-related projects is strongly preferred.

• Experience with managing projects involving Workday or other enterprise HR technologies is preferred.

• Experience in managing projects within a government contracting, highly regulated, or complex matrixed environment is preferred.

• Experience coordinating external consultants, technology partners, and vendors.

• Experience supporting enterprise-wide implementations and organizational change initiatives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• Company Life Insurance

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance

• 401(K) Immediate Vesting

• Professional Development Assistance

• Legal Aid Assistance Program

• Family Planning / Fertility Assistance

• Personal Time Off / Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Observance of Federal Holidays (11 Federal Holidays)

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Training and Development Opportunities