Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. is a holding company with subsidiaries serving federal government and commercial enterprises. The HR Project Manager manages a high-volume portfolio of complex, cross-functional Human Resources initiatives, overseeing planning, execution, governance, reporting, risks, resources, stakeholders, and technology-enabled projects.
Responsibilities
- Manages a high-volume portfolio of concurrent HR projects across multiple functional areas
- Maintains a consolidated view of HR projects, providing visibility into project status, milestones, resources, risks, dependencies, and upcoming decisions
- Establishes and applies consistent project management standards, tools, templates, and governance across HR initiatives
- Supports project intake and prioritization by providing visibility into resource requirements, dependencies, timing, and capacity
- Identifies competing priorities and resource constraints and escalate concerns to HR leadership for resolution
- Maintains portfolio-level reporting to provide HR leadership with clear visibility into overall project health and progress
- Manages projects through the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through execution, implementation, and closeout
- Develops comprehensive project plans defining scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, milestones, resources, dependencies, and responsibilities
- Establishes clear roles and accountability across project teams
- Coordinates activities across HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Operations, Communications, external consultants, vendors, and other stakeholders as appropriate
- Facilitates project meetings, working sessions, status reviews, and decision-making discussions
- Follows up on commitments and drives accountability for assigned actions and deliverables
- Maintains project documentation, decision logs, action items, and other project records
- Provides hands-on project support when appropriate while maintaining accountability with functional subject matter experts for functional decisions and deliverables
- Provides project management support for HR initiatives involving technology, process, policy, compliance, Total Rewards, talent, employee experience, and other functional areas
- Manages HR workstreams associated with system enhancements, implementations, integrations, and optimization efforts, including initiatives involving Workday and other enterprise technologies
- Coordinates project activities such as requirements gathering, testing, user acceptance testing, communications, training readiness, implementation planning, and post-launch activities as appropriate
- Partners with HR functional leaders, HR Operations, HRIS, IT, and other stakeholders to ensure roles, responsibilities, timelines, and dependencies are clearly established
- Coordinates HR project activities within broader enterprise technology initiatives while maintaining alignment with established IT project governance and methodologies
- Ensures HR business requirements, decisions, dependencies, and deliverables are appropriately represented and tracked within cross-functional projects
- Identifies project resource requirements and coordinates resource commitments across HR and cross-functional teams
- Maintains visibility into resource capacity and competing demands across the HR project portfolio
- Identifies resource conflicts, competing priorities, and cross-project dependencies before they impact delivery
- Partners with HR leadership to escalate resource constraints and sequencing challenges
- Coordinates external consultants and vendors against established project plans and deliverables
- Identifies, documents, monitors, and communicates project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies
- Develops mitigation plans in partnership with project owners and subject matter experts
- Establishes clear escalation protocols and proactively elevate risks requiring leadership decisions
- Manages changes to project scope, schedule, resources, and deliverables through appropriate project governance
- Ensures key decisions are documented and communicated to impacted stakeholders
- Builds effective working relationships across Human Resources and with cross-functional business partners
- Develops project communication plans appropriate to the size, complexity, and audience of each initiative
- Translates detailed project information into clear, concise updates for HR and senior leadership
- Facilitates cross-functional collaboration and maintains alignment among stakeholders with different priorities and responsibilities
- Influences without direct authority to maintain momentum and accountability
- Develops and maintains project dashboards, status reports, portfolio summaries, and leadership updates
- Establishes project health indicators and consistently monitors schedule, scope, resources, risks, and deliverables
- Facilitates project governance meetings and leadership reviews
- Provides transparent reporting on projects that are on track, at risk, or require leadership intervention
- Tracks project outcomes and conducts project closeouts and lessons-learned reviews to continuously improve project delivery
Skills
- Must be able to pass a background investigation
- Demonstrated experience simultaneously managing multiple projects with competing priorities, resources, and stakeholders
- Experience managing projects involving multiple functional areas and levels of leadership
- Strong knowledge of formal project management methodologies, tools, and practices
- Demonstrated experience developing project plans, managing risks and dependencies, coordinating resources, and providing leadership-level project reporting
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of three or more (3+) years of progressive project management experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Previous experience supporting Human Resources projects is strongly preferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred
- Previous experience working within Human Resources or managing Human Resources projects strongly preferred
- Experience managing projects involving Workday or other enterprise HR technologies preferred
- Experience managing projects in a government contracting, highly regulated, or complex matrixed environment preferred
- Experience coordinating external consultants, technology partners, and vendors
- Experience supporting enterprise-wide implementations and organizational change initiatives
Benefits
- Premium benefits eligible on the first day of hire for full-time employees
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Company life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- 401(k) with immediate vesting
- Professional development assistance
- Legal Aid Assistance Program
- Family Planning / Fertility Assistance
- Personal Time Off
- Observance of Federal Holidays
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Time Off (PTO) – (11) Federal Holidays
- Training and Development Opportunities
Company Overview
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