Strategic Project Management Consultant (Volunteer)

What we do

Passion For Life (PFL) is a non for profit organization that operates with the power of dedicated volunteers like you. We help under-resourced youth transform their passions into rewarding careers. 

Our mission is to provide forward-thinking career coaching and immersion opportunities driven by the student’s passions and talents in a fun, structured, and high-energy environment. Passion for Life was created to be a high-energy and engaging process that helps students identify their passions and gain clarity on how to utilize their core strengths and talents to select a career. 

Job Outline

The Strategic PMO Consultant will support leadership teams and oversee strategic functions of PFL’s Project Management Office. This role is integral to strategic discussions and designed to influence the setting of strategic goals and ensure successful growth. Strategic PMO Consultant has the critical responsibility of aligning the project portfolio with organizational strategy. This involves translating executive vision into actionable project initiatives that drive business value.

This is a volunteer, part-time fully remote role. Time commitment 5-8 hours per week (6 months, but can be mutually extended). 

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic partnership by selecting, adapting, and implementing project management methodologies that fit organizational culture and project types. 
• Establish rigorous criteria for evaluating and prioritizing projects, develop scoring models that consider factors such as strategic alignment, return on investment, risk profile, resource availability, and dependencies. 
• Create multi-year roadmaps that sequence initiatives and ensure sustainable resource utilization with the anticipation of future organizational needs, technological shifts, and market changes.
• Manage demands across the entire portfolio while maintaining flexibility to respond to emerging priorities, managing stakeholder expectations when projects are deprioritized or delayed in favor of higher-value initiatives.
• Establish quality gates, review processes, and audit mechanisms to ensure projects adhere to organizational standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices. 
• Provide complex portfolio information into executive-friendly formats that enable strategic decision-making. This involves creating intuitive dashboards highlighting portfolio health, strategic alignment, risk exposure, and value delivery.
• Design comprehensive communication strategies that ensure appropriate information flows to the right audiences at right frequencies. This includes stakeholder analysis, communication channel selection, messaging frameworks, and feedback mechanisms.
• Lead and develop the PMO Team to sustain growth objectives.
• Oversee strategic alignment meetings.
  

Desired Skills and Experience

• At least seven (7) years in Project Management in a leadership capacity
• Strong leadership skills and a proactive attitude anticipating team needs
• Ability to provide strategic guidance and advice leadership team
• Strong forward thinking mindset with ability to put vision into action
• Ability to prioritize and manage work against critical project timelines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities
• Proven experience in identifying, analyzing, problem-solving and responding to internal and external opportunities and challenges with the ability to translate these into practical plans of action
• Ability to work collaboratively and support others in the development and implementation of agreed strategies within the team and wider organizational contexts
• Must be a self-starter and possess the ability to work well with others
• Must possess initiative, creativity, and a highly developed work ethic