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Overview

Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do. To overcome today’s biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter, and so does the impact you can make with us.

The **American Heart Association** has an excellent opportunity for a **Sr. IT Project Manager** in our **National Center** office located in **Dallas, TX.**

The **Sr. IT Project Manager** is a senior professional responsible for driving the delivery of strategic, top-priority technical projects that require interaction with senior management and significant financial investment. Provides effective and critical cross-project coordination to ensure projects align with the strategic vision and have cohesiveness running throughout all. Accountable for following the American Heart Association's project methodology for technology delivery and ensuring outcomes are aligned with the organization's enterprise business strategies, technical architecture, compliance, legal, governance, and digital governance points. Responsible for establishing work priorities for and overseeing the efforts of staff and vendors to achieve project objectives. Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on key Program, Product, and Project initiatives.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

\#TheAHALife is more than a company culture; it is our way of life. It embodies our commitment to work-life harmonization and is guided by our core values where our employees can thrive both personally and professionally. Discover why you will Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Valued at the American Heart Association by following us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, and at heart.jobs.

Responsibilities

+ Manages strategic coordination across several high-impact initiatives and related projects. Initiates, plans, executes, monitors, controls, and closes assigned executive-sponsored or multi-level complex projects. Assigned projects may include strategic, top-priority efforts that require interaction and management with high visibility and significant financial investment.

+ Owns and ensures complex deliverable outputs that align with business strategic vision and operational revenue goals by taking on multiple, highly capable loads of responsibility, including being nimble to serve as expert Project Manager, Business Analyst, Program or Product Subject Matter Expert, Quality Assurance advisor, or stand-in.

+ Establishes work priorities for and directs the efforts of personnel (including consultants or contractors) involved in project-controlled tasks required to meet an approved project's objectives. Provides expedient response, resolution of roadblocks, mitigation of risks, and re-evaluation of priorities for the team.

+ Provides analysis and consultation to determine project requirements and scope.

+ Develops initial scope, project plans, and forecasts of resource scheduling needs. Identifies scope, provides insight, and takes action to resolve issues as well as initiate steps to mitigate, manage, and control. Monitors project performance using key performance indicators and makes necessary adjustments.

+ Identifies, models, and leverages project management best practices. Provides expertise in waterfall, agile, and hybrid project management methodologies, setting the standard and model of excellence and delivery across the organization.

+ Troubleshot project and change management problems and developed plans to adhere to timelines and budgets. Anticipates risks and issues. Establishes options and solutions for mitigation, considering the impact of decisions. Acts as the initial point of contact for escalated issues and is the designated owner to ensure the resolution of all escalated issues. Provides options and seeks leadership guidance for unresolved concerns, driving for rapid closure. Responsible for escalating project issues for resolution and actively communicating to ensure project awareness and engagement from key BT and business senior leadership.

+ Champions and sets the leading standard for project governance best practices, actively controls project changes, and manages related communications. Identifies, establishes, and maintains excellent business relationships with senior leaders and key stakeholders. Recommends and influences decision-making within project scope. Drives change management for programs/projects across the organization by working directly with senior business leadership, senior technology leadership, and by mentoring project teams and other project managers across the technology organization.

+ Manages capital asset and project operational expenses within the project budget. Performs analysis for return on investment reporting for high-dollar projects (more than $5K.

+ Performs other duties as required or assigned, which are reasonably within the scope and responsibility of the job level and family.

Qualifications

+ 5 years minimum prior relevant experience.

+ Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

+ Extensive experience working with multiple vendors at the same time in complex environments that contain complex ecosystems with many vendor contributors and integrations.

+ Extensive experience managing and driving high-profile and high-revenue-generating projects, including cross-departmental business owners, vendors, and cross-departmental technology teams such as infrastructure networking, security, engineering, data architecture, support, and development.

+ Experience with presenting project overviews, updates, and decks to senior and executive leadership.

+ Experience with Mergers & Acquisitions or similar complex scenarios that involved extensive and deep change management, multiple vendors, integrated environments, significant ambiguity, and high-pressure time constraints.

+ Expert experience with creating and maintaining key detailed project artifacts, including but not limited to RAID logs, detailed program/project plans, Cutover Execution plans, Vendor Request for Proposals, Project Charters, Requirements documentation, and Status Update decks.

+ This role requires an individual to wear “multiple hats” of responsibility, and the occupant must have a strong desire and capability to work within a fast-changing environment that involves pivoting of focus day to day.

Preferred Qualifications

+ 8 years minimum prior relevant experience in leading highly complex projects

+ 7 years minimum prior relevant experience with SaaS systems and integrations

Compensation & Benefits

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package. Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

+ **Compensation** – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.

+ **Performance and Recognition** – You are rewarded for achieving success through annual salary planning and incentive programs; based on the type of position

+ **Benefits** – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.

+ **Professional Development –** You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.

+ **Work-Life Harmonization –** The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.

+ **Tuition Assistance** - We support the career development of all employees. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association’s 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health, by 2028 the Association will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science, policy, and care for healthier people and communities. The greatest discoveries in health must reach everyone where they are.

At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities.

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**Default: Location : Location** _US-TX-Dallas_

**Posted Date** _3 hours ago_ _(10/28/2025 2:12 PM)_

**_Requisition ID_** _2025-16543_

**_Job Category_** _Information Technology_

**_Position Type_** _Full Time_