Summary

The HR Project Manager provides disciplined project management across a high-volume portfolio of Human Resources initiatives. Ensures HR projects are effectively planned, organized, resourced, tracked, communicated, and delivered in alignment with established objectives, timelines, and priorities. Serves as a central point of coordination for projects spanning HR technology, compliance, Total Rewards, talent, employee experience, culture, HR operations, and other strategic HR initiatives. Projects may range from focused functional initiatives to complex, cross-functional efforts involving multiple departments, systems, vendors, and stakeholders.

Creates the structure, accountability, visibility, and coordination necessary for project teams and subject matter experts to successfully deliver their work. Demonstrates project management that can thrive in a fast-paced environment, simultaneously managing multiple complex initiatives, and is highly effective at coordinating stakeholders across functions and levels of the organization.

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. serves as a holding company with multiple subsidiaries engaged in several lines of business for the federal government and commercial enterprises. A portion of profits is used to support Chickasaw citizens.

Estimated pay range: $77,000 to $100,000, with the final offer contingent on location, skillset, and experience.

Essential Requirements

• •Must be able to pass a background investigation
• •Demonstrated experience simultaneously managing multiple projects with competing priorities, resources, and stakeholders
• •Experience managing projects involving multiple functional areas and levels of leadership
• •Strong knowledge of formal project management methodologies, tools, and practices
• •Demonstrated experience developing project plans, managing risks and dependencies, coordinating resources, and providing leadership-level project reporting

Key Duties and Responsibilities

HR Project Portfolio Management

• •Manages a high-volume portfolio of concurrent HR projects across multiple functional areas
• •Maintains a consolidated view of HR projects, providing visibility into project status, milestones, resources, risks, dependencies, and upcoming decisions
• •Establishes and applies consistent project management standards, tools, templates, and governance across HR initiatives
• •Supports project intake and prioritization by providing visibility into resource requirements, dependencies, timing, and capacity
• •Identifies competing priorities and resource constraints and escalates concerns to HR leadership for resolution
• •Maintains portfolio-level reporting to provide HR leadership with clear visibility into overall project health and progress

Project Planning and Management

• •Manages projects through the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through execution, implementation, and closeout
• •Develops comprehensive project plans defining scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, milestones, resources, dependencies, and responsibilities
• •Establishes clear roles and accountability across project teams
• •Coordinates activities across HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Operations, Communications, external consultants, vendors, and other stakeholders
• •Facilitates project meetings, working sessions, status reviews, and decision-making discussions
• •Follows up on commitments and drives accountability for assigned actions and deliverables
• •Maintains project documentation, decision logs, action items, and other project records

Cross-Functional and Technology-Enabled Projects

• •Provides project management support for HR initiatives involving technology, process, policy, compliance, Total Rewards, talent, and employee experience
• •Manages HR workstreams associated with system enhancements, implementations, integrations, and optimization efforts, including initiatives involving Workday and other enterprise technologies
• •Coordinates project activities such as requirements gathering, testing, user acceptance testing, communications, training readiness, implementation planning, and post-launch activities
• •Partners with HR functional leaders, HR Operations, HRIS, IT, and other stakeholders to ensure roles, responsibilities, timelines, and dependencies are clearly established
• •Ensures HR business requirements, decisions, dependencies, and deliverables are appropriately represented and tracked within cross-functional projects

Resource and Dependency Management

• •Identifies project resource requirements and coordinates resource commitments across HR and cross-functional teams
• •Maintains visibility into resource capacity and competing demands across the HR project portfolio
• •Identifies resource conflicts, competing priorities, and cross-project dependencies before they impact delivery
• •Partners with HR leadership to escalate resource constraints and sequencing challenges
• •Coordinates external consultants and vendors against established project plans and deliverables

Risk, Issue, and Change Management

• •Identifies, documents, monitors, and communicates project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies
• •Develops mitigation plans in partnership with project owners and subject matter experts
• •Establishes clear escalation protocols and proactively elevates risks requiring leadership decisions
• •Manages changes to project scope, schedule, resources, and deliverables through appropriate project governance
• •Ensures key decisions are documented and communicated to impacted stakeholders

Stakeholder Management and Communication

• •Builds effective working relationships across Human Resources and with cross-functional business partners
• •Develops project communication plans appropriate to the size, complexity, and audience of each initiative
• •Translates detailed project information into clear, concise updates for HR and senior leadership
• •Facilitates cross-functional collaboration and maintains alignment among stakeholders with different priorities
• •Influences without direct authority to maintain momentum and accountability

Project Reporting and Governance

• •Develops and maintains project dashboards, status reports, portfolio summaries, and leadership updates
• •Establishes project health indicators and consistently monitors schedule, scope, resources, risks, and deliverables
• •Facilitates project governance meetings and leadership reviews
• •Provides transparent reporting on projects that are on track, at risk, or require leadership intervention
• •Tracks project outcomes and conducts project closeouts and lessons-learned reviews

Education and Experience

• •Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3+ years of progressive project management experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• •Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred
• •Previous experience working within Human Resources or managing Human Resources projects strongly preferred
• •Experience managing projects involving Workday or other enterprise HR technologies preferred
• •Experience managing projects in a government contracting, highly regulated, or complex matrixed environment preferred
• •Experience coordinating external consultants, technology partners, and vendors
• •Experience supporting enterprise-wide implementations and organizational change initiatives

Benefits

• •Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance eligible on first day of hire
• •Company Life Insurance and AD&D
• •Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• •401(k) with immediate vesting
• •Family Planning and Fertility Assistance
• •Legal Aid Assistance Program
• •Employee Assistance Program
• •Paid Time Off and 11 Federal Holidays observed
• •Training and Development Opportunities