Overview

Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, execution, control, reporting, and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company and department strategy, commitments, and goals. Work collaboratively with upper management, department heads, and project team members to make sure that the scope and the direction of each assigned initiative is on schedule and meets expected deliverables and budget. Administer Church Mutual's project management methodology, processes, tools, and artefacts to support successful project completion.

Responsibilities

I. Provide direction and support to project team. Build effective project teams by facilitating and participating in meetings with involved departments and resources to establish and direct project progression and evaluation.

II. Facilitate initial and ongoing communication between department heads, project team members, and stakeholders that will promote successful goal accomplishment and the identification of issues or risks that may become barriers to success. Assist project team members in resolving issues and perform risk management activities to identify project opportunities and hurdles.

III. Assist in defining and refining project requirements and to outline project development and implementation approaches.

IV. Work closely with project stakeholders and resources to develop multifunctional project management plans leading Church Mutual's efforts to develop project scope, tasks, deliverables, resources, timelines, budgets, and evaluation metrics.

V. Act as a liaison between project sponsor and stakeholders, assisting them to manage the financial, human, and technical resources required to successfully achieve the project's goals and objectives.

VI. Manage project resource allocations, schedule, and budget. Identify resources needed to meet project goals, work with department heads to procure resources, assign resource responsibilities, and ensure proper utilization of assigned resources.

VII. Utilize project management software to provide meaningful status reporting, resource utilization, task completion, and budget information to corporate and department management.

VIII. Manage, monitor, and report on projects by tracking progress against agreed scope, milestones, and deadlines.

IX. Adhere to change control procedures and record required justification and resulting decisions.

X. Work with stakeholders and IT project team members to ensure technical solutions are sound and meet operational requirements.

XI. Champion project management skills and processes by utilizing approved project management methodology, standards, procedures, and project management techniques and train project team members in their value and use.

Qualifications

1. Prior Experience:

• Three to five years' experience in project management or four to six years of related experience as a project team member of which at least two years have been in a leadership position.• Experience with project management software desired.• Experience with the system development life cycle is desired.• Management of multi-department level projects a plus.• Additional experience in one or more of the following areas preferred:o Project development and project implementation (especially in insurance industry) knowledge and experience.o Professional IT project management experience.o Work in business process improvement and related change management and staff development.

2. Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. Major in organization development, business, IT, project, and/or production management preferred.• Project management certificate or designation is preferred.

3. Necessary Knowledge and Abilities:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to properly communicate to all levels of the organization.• Ability to learn the property and casualty insurance industry and its products, services, and operation models.• Demonstrated experience in project management methodology, best practices, and tools. • Demonstrated and refined interpersonal skills.• Organized, analytical, and self-motivated.• Average-to-advanced computer skills. • Critical thinking and problem solving skills.• Sound judgment, dependable, reliable.• Customer-focused.• Strong negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills.• Ability to positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization.• Ability to manage people without direct authority in an effect to complete project initiatives.• Ability to provide coaching and mentoring to others in the importance of project management.• Maintain confidentiality of project information.

Church Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.