The PMO & Interventions Senior Manager is an important management role within the Transformation function at CARE, responsible for the oversight and support of strategic initiatives across the organization. This role combines portfolio oversight with hands‑on intervention capabilities, ensuring projects remain aligned with organizational objectives and are delivered in compliance with project and change management best practices. The position requires a proactive and collaborative mindset coupled with practical project management and project delivery expertise, particularly in organizational change management.
SENIOR MANAGER, PMO & INTERVENTIONS at CARE
US - Atlanta, GA
Salary
R$ 93,760.88 - 130,796.43/year
Requirements
Education
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience
Experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience of project or portfolio delivery experience, with at least 3 years of working in a PMO
- Experience of project management online tools
- Experience of industry project management standards and holding project management teams accountable to those standards
- Experience of organizational change and transformation, especially change that impacts roles and structures
Skills
- Project management best practices
- Coaching skills
- Organizational change and transformation
Languages
- English
Responsibilities
- Maintain oversight of strategic initiatives to ensure alignment with CARE’s global strategy and compliance with project and change management best practices.
- Run a regular cadence of project progress meetings to check on project health and their delivery against their agreed milestones and results
- Establish and maintain project delivery standards and best practices
- Maintain portfolio risk registers and elevate critical issues to senior leadership
- Coordinate cross-project dependencies and resource allocation conflicts
- Conduct periodic wider portfolio reviews and recommend strategic adjustments or project prioritization changes
- Directly intervene in underperforming or at-risk projects to restore delivery capability
- Gap fill roles where necessary to maintain project momentum
- Identify projects requiring intervention through monitoring systems and stakeholder feedback
- Conduct rapid diagnostic assessments of troubled projects to determine root causes of issues
- Develop and implement targeted intervention plans, including resource reallocation, scope adjustments, or methodology changes
- Provide direct project management support during critical phases or recovery periods
- Implement corrective measures for projects experiencing capacity gaps, timeline slippages, or quality issues
- Monitor intervention effectiveness and adjust strategies as needed to ensure project recovery
- Build internal project management capabilities of staff involved in strategic initiatives
- Assess project management capability gaps across the portfolio of strategic initiatives
- Deliver training on project management best practices (methodologies and tools)
- Coach project managers and team leads to improve their delivery capabilities
- Maintain project management knowledge repositories and lessons learned databases
- Support recruitment and onboarding of project management professionals
- Establish performance standards and career development pathways for project management roles
- Manage the organizational reporting process for the strategic initiative portfolio as defined by the AVP for Strategy
- Implement standardized progress reporting templates that track key results, milestones, budget utilization, and risk status
- Put in place reporting systems and dashboards to monitor real-time project performance against defined KPIs
- Conduct periodic project review meetings with project managers to validate reported progress and address discrepancies
- Establish escalation protocols for projects that fail to meet reporting requirements or show concerning progress trends
- Generate executive summary reports that consolidate portfolio performance for senior leadership consumption
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