Strategic Plan Project Manager

Are you passionate about creating opportunities for people to thrive?

Catholic Charities is the place for you!

Strategic Plan Project Manager

Elliot Park - Minneapolis/Hybrid

For more than 150 years, Catholic Charities has been an integral part of the Twin Cities community, directly serving our most vulnerable neighbors.

We deliver essential services including affordable housing, emergency shelter, nutritious meals, mental health care, addiction resources, and more. Catholic Charities offers a lifeline to those facing hardship, providing support and developing solutions to build stronger communities. Regardless of faith, identity, background or circumstances, we treat everyone with dignity and respect.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE:

Join a mission-driven organization that pairs compassion with accountability and hope with action. At Catholic Charities, you’ll be part of a supportive team dedicated to creating opportunity and advocating for justice. We invest in our employees through training, mentorship, and opportunities for professional growth.

WAGE SUMMARY: $85,000 - $95,000/annually

JOB SUMMARY:

The Strategic Plan Project Manager is a significant individual contributor responsible for guiding the implementation, scope, timeline, coordination, reporting, and communication of an agency-wide strategic plan. Working across the organization, this role will manage an inclusive implementation process, leading cross-functional teams and external partners while maintaining disciplined project governance and ensure diverse working groups are translating the plan into a focused, actionable strategy.

This hybrid position will report to the Vice President of Performance and Quality Assurance and will include close collaboration with and occasional direction from the Chief Executive Officer.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Project Leadership and Governance

• Lead, plan and coordinate the implementation of the organization’s multi-year strategic plan and performance measurement process across departments and divisions, including the overall work plan, milestones, dependencies, resources, decision rights, and quality standards.
• Establish governance structures to coordinate results from multiple implementation teams across the organization, synthesizing information into cohesive work toward plan goals.
• Maintain integrated project tools, including the primary schedule, decision and change logs, risk and issue register, action tracker, and status dashboard.
• Provide clear, timely updates; surface tradeoffs and decisions; and escalate barriers with practical recommendations.

Measurement and Communication

• Coordinate collection and synthesis of organizational performance data, financial and operational information, community needs, stakeholder insights, and relevant external trends.
• Support leadership in clarifying mission impact, strategic choices, priorities, outcomes, and measures of success.
• Drive accountability with reporting on implementation progress.
• Advise on recommended success metrics; monitor and report on data required for assessing progress toward strategic objectives.
• Translate approved priorities into an implementation roadmap with accountable owners, sequencing, resource implications, key performance indicators, reporting cadence, and change-management needs.
• Develop briefing materials, presentations, recommendations, and draft plan content for leadership, staff, and board review.
• Share organization-wide best practices for strategic plan implementation and change management to encourage full adoption of the plan.
• Coordinate handoff to operational leaders and establish a process for ongoing review, learning, and adaptation.
• Partner with communications staff to deliver consistent, transparent updates throughout the process.
• Provide support on using internal project management tools, templates, and processes that support implementation activities.
• Build trust and positive relationships with internal workgroups, staff, and leadership to facilitate plan adoption.

Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS/TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• At least three years of progressively responsible or equivalent experience in project management, strategic planning, organizational development, management consulting, nonprofit leadership, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success in project management of complex, organization-wide initiatives with multiple workstreams, senior decision-makers, and diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong command of project management disciplines, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, governance, dependency, and vendor management.
• Ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative information into clear findings, strategic options, and executive-level materials.
• Exceptional written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills, with sound judgment and discretion.
• Strong attention to detail and a proactive nature.
• Results-driven with exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to advance equitable and inclusive processes, build collaborative relationships, and to engage people with varied identities, roles, experiences, and levels of organizational power.
• Proficiency with common project management, collaboration, survey, presentation, and data-reporting tools.
• Ability to work with diverse and/or low-income populations, including those who may be experiencing homelessness, unstable housing, and/or mental illness.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management experience within a nonprofit, public-sector, human-services, philanthropic, or community-based organization.
• Experience working effectively with nonprofit boards, executive teams, community partners, clients, or funders.
• Knowledge of strategy implementation, performance measurement, organizational change, and continuous improvement.
• Project management, facilitation, change management, or related professional certification.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

CPR

No

Driving

No

Operating specialized machinery (additional assessment may be required)

No

Walking or standing > 2 hours/shift

No

Lifting up to 25lbs without assistance

No

Lifting up to 50lbs without assistance

No

Physically restraining clients

No