Senior Project Manager

The Oregon Solutions Senior Project Manager helps identify potential Oregon Solutions projects through a variety of channels. They do situational assessments to determine if the situation is ripe for collaborative work. They assemble a collective group of community members and other stakeholders to address the situation. They oversee and manage projects, convene, facilitate group meetings, and work outside the meetings to help the group connect with people and financial resources needed for implementing the project.

The Senior Project Manager is distinct from a project manager because the level of complexity of many of the assigned projects is high, which is defined by a number of factors including (but not limited to):

• Engagement of participants: a large number of participants with a wide variety of professional, personal, and lived experiences and overall challenges related to engaging those participants, and the intersection of multiple racial groups, cultures, and languages.

• Dynamics of the situation: situations with high levels of conflict and low levels of trust.

• Cross-sector: situations involving participants from multiple sectors.

• Scope/duration: long term project(s) with multiple committees.

• Political sensitivity and visibility: either because of the issues or participants involved, there is a high level of political sensitivity and visibility.

• Role: contract negotiation, managing the budget and scope and assuming responsibility for project design, implementation and management.

• May participate in applied research and training.