Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CFA Institute is a global organization focused on investment excellence, ethics, and professional growth. The Senior Program Manager will lead strategic and business change initiatives across the enterprise, managing complex programs from planning through execution and change adoption. The role involves coordinating cross-functional teams, managing risks and resources, engaging senior stakeholders, and supporting delivery across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, multi-workstream programs from initial planning through delivery, ensuring scope, timelines, resources, budgets, dependencies and risks remain controlled
- Build and manage integrated program plans, governance structures, RAID logs, decision registers and reporting cadences
- Work across functions to coordinate resources, manage dependencies and keep teams aligned around shared outcomes
- Partner with senior stakeholders and program sponsors, providing clear communication, surfacing risks and helping drive decisions
- Engage deeply with the substance of each initiative so you can challenge scope, assumptions and proposed approaches rather than focusing solely on program administration
- Support strategic initiatives connected to CFA Institute’s 2030 strategy alongside operational and business change programs
- Assess current and future states, identify gaps and requirements, and help translate these into structured delivery plans
- Manage organizational readiness, stakeholder engagement and change activity through the program lifecycle
- Track program health, budgets and delivery progress, using data and clear reporting to support decision-making
- Adapt your approach across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid environments according to the needs of the initiative
Skills
- Significant, demonstrable program management and delivery experience, including ownership of complex, multi-workstream, cross-functional programs
- Strong evidence of independently managing program plans, budgets, resources, risks, issues, dependencies and governance
- Proven experience working with senior stakeholders and coordinating delivery across multiple business functions
- The ability to step into an established portfolio and operate effectively with a high degree of autonomy
- A hands-on approach: you can get up to speed on unfamiliar subject matter, engage with the content of a program and constructively challenge scope and direction
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to navigate different priorities and build alignment across teams
- Experience using structured program and project management methodologies and tools
- Strong business acumen and the ability to connect day-to-day program delivery with wider business objectives
Benefits
- Eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive bonus
- A 12% employer contribution to a pension plan
- A comprehensive medical benefits package
- Health coverage
- Generous time off
- Competitive retirement plans
- Flexible work options
- Wellbeing and development programs
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