[Hiring] Thought Leadership Portfolio Delivery Lead @Project Management Institute

Role Description

Are you a dreamer, innovator, thinker and a do-er who believes in contributing to something that makes difference? Pursue your passion. Join PMI.

You will run the Thought Leadership department’s production process from initiation through publication across research, content, and engagement:

• Standing up project documents
• Building and maintaining schedules
• Running project team meetings
• Holding the portfolio to its commitments

This is a hands-on delivery role, ensuring that the work lands on time and to standard so that leadership has an accurate view of where every initiative stands at any point. The role works across every function in Thought Leadership and coordinates contributors it does not manage. Success is measured by:

• Projects delivering to plan
• Risks surfacing early enough to act on
• The portfolio operating to a predictable rhythm

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required (business, project management, communications, or related field)
• 7+ years of experience in project or program management, running multiple concurrent initiatives
• Demonstrated experience managing content, editorial, research, or campaign production from initiation through publication
• Demonstrated experience holding delivery accountability across contributors the role does not manage
• Experience developing project charters, schedules, and risk and issue logs as standard practice
• Hands-on experience administering project management platforms (e.g. Monday.com, Asana, Smartsheet)
• PMP, PgMP, and/or PfMP certification preferred
• Experience working in complex, matrixed, or global organizations
• Familiarity with thought leadership, research, or content production environments strongly preferred
• Strong project and program management discipline, applied consistently rather than selectively
• Ability to build schedules from realistic effort assumptions and defend them under pressure
• Ability to hold contributors to commitments without positional authority
• Early escalation instinct — surfacing risk rather than absorbing it
• Strong facilitation skills, including running working sessions to clear decisions and actions
• Sound judgement on sequencing and trade-offs when initiatives compete for the same capacity
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the discipline to keep records accurate over time
• Comfort working at pace across many concurrent initiatives
• Fluent in English (PMI’s business language)

Benefits

• An excellent total package, with compensation and benefits based upon your geographic location
• Skill development opportunities, to help you grow now and into the future
• Access to a global network, to enrich your professional experience
• Flexible options to help balance work time and your time
• Award and bonus opportunities

The salary offer will be based on several factors, including the candidate’s demonstrated skills, qualifications and relevant experience.

Company Description

Project Management Institute, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.