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Position Description

• Works with internal and external Project Managers as a team leader.
• Provides leadership and supervision to assigned consultants.
• Ability to manage multiple high-profile projects simultaneously.
• Responsible for all phases (planning, scheduling and managing) of the design, construction and occupancy process for a construction or refurbishment project.
• Assesses, and documents project scope and program, describing the objectives, physical requirements, parameters, and constraints of the project. This includes not only the user's functional needs, but also school and external jurisdictional criteria for health and safety, operation, maintenance, energy efficiency, quality standards, contextual issues, and aesthetics.
• Implements quality control measures to ensure project compliance with school policies, government codes and regulations; also, ensures conformance to the requirements of all project participants and stakeholders.
• Maintains communications on a regular and timely basis, ensuring that all project participants and stakeholders are informed of project status, problems, and required actions.
• Manages the process of furnishing and equipment selection, purchasing, and installation.
• Manages the review and approval process to ensure appropriate approvals of all design work from schematic studies through final construction documents and related field changes and changes in scope, as well as approval for conceptual and detailed projects budgets.
• Manages the selection process and contract negotiations for consultants, contractors, and vendors.
• Prepares and maintains accurate, coherent, timely, and auditable project records/files, and cost estimates with department procedures; and ensures that as-built documentations are completed.
• The Senior Project Manager is responsible for all project administration including all contractual requirements, agreements with trade partners, purchase orders, and risk management. This individual also manages general work performance and quality, and overall team progress against the project plan.
• Produce thorough forecast of cash flow and Cost-to-Complete, which drills down to identify potential exposures.
• Develop and track projects for on-time completion of forecasts.
• Ability to constantly multi-task and handle competing priorities.
• Possess judgment to know when to appropriately escalate issues up the chain of command.
• The ability to manage and embrace change. Respond and adapt to new processes and new ways of looking at old problems.
• A strong sense of urgency and initiative. Able to quickly study and react to complex issues.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to confidently and decisively take action.
• Team leader with excellent diplomatic and communication skills, able to handle and resolve conflicts effectively in a firm but fair manner.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field such as Architecture or Engineering required
• 7+ years of relevant experience is required

Additional Qualifications and Skills

• Masters Degree preferred .
• Knowledge of local, state and federal regulatory requirements related to areas of functional responsibility.
• 10 years of experience relative to project size and scope.
• Experience with using project management tools including but not limited to, Procore and Microsoft Project.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with widely diverse groups, including individuals at all levels both within and outside the organization and gain their cooperation.
• Knowledge of technical, professional and business in the fields of research, architecture, and construction, and building design process.
• Knowledge of CAD system, CAFM, estimating, cost control, scheduling, construction administration, quality control, specification writing, and space planning.
• Ensure project compliance with school's safety and procedures and protocols.
  

• Awareness of and aptitude to appropriately and effectively understand, respect, and adapt to cultural and identity-based difference within group environments
• Knowledge of and commitment to concepts and issues tied to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Skills related to creating and supporting an environment that allows for inclusion, effective intercultural engagement, and personal humility and authenticity
• Experience fostering and reinforcing an environment that values unique experiences, cultures, backgrounds, and goals

Working Conditions

• Construction sites, machinery and tools which pose a hazard.
• Projects will occasionally require off hour construction and the Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing these operations. Included is the requirement to respond to project's emergency situations that may occur on or off-hours.
  

Additional Information

• The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health does not provide visa sponsorship, now or in the future, for staff positions.
• Harvard University requires pre-employment reference checks and background screenings.
• This position has a 90 day orientation and review period.

Salary Grade: 058

Union: 00 - Non Union, Exempt or Temporary

About Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education. Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

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