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If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. Current WGU employees should submit an internal application before 5/24/2024 to be considered.

The Senior Manager of Business Transformation of Project Program Management (BTPM) is responsible for the end-to-end successful launch of programs and projects that are typically cross-functional, executive-sponsored, are innovative and transformational in nature, and drive WGU's strategic priorities. This role is responsible for the continuous improvement of project and program management at WGU as well as designing and establishing unified project and program management best practices and standards to be used across the organization, partnering with Ed Tech and other departments to align standards and governance. The Senior Manager will be a sponsor of WGU's Center of Excellence (COE) and Community of Practice (COP) for project management, working closely with departments to insure adoption of standards and practices. They will be responsible for project and program management governance across WGU's distributed project management teams. This individual directly leads a team of highly skilled Project and Program Managers and is responsible for the hiring, development, and performance of this team.

The Senior Manager BTPM position is a highly visible role at WGU which is directly responsible for advancing new programs and new strategies aimed at improving WGU business expansion and student success outcomes. The Senior Manager reports to the Director of Institutional Portfolio Management within the CFO organization. They will be joining the Institutional Portfolio Management (IPM) department comprised of project, program and portfolio managers, risk and change managers, and business process optimization engineers.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Executes all leadership functions related to team hiring, performance reviews, team morale, capacity planning, coaching, and professional development. * Constructs, coordinates, and maintains program, project, and demand structure within the WGU ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management system. * Advises project and program managers on executive level reporting of non-technical roadmaps, critical milestones, status, and risks to stakeholders using metrics, data visualization, and executive communications. * Escalates issues that threaten non-technical portfolio and project success and directly coordinates with executive leadership to communicate root cause and mitigation plans. * Accountable for the performance and successful launch of all projects and programs led by their direct reports. * Establishes unified, institutional project and program management best practices and governance in a highly collaborative approach with IPM, Ed Tech, Product, Program Launch, and Program Development project management... For full info follow application link.

Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.