A Catholic fraternal organization founded in 1882 at St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Conn., U.S.A., the Knights of Columbus has more than 1.9 million members in the Americas, Europe and Asia. For over 130 years it has provided for the financial security of its members and their families.

Consistently earning the highest industry ratings for fiscal stability and ethical business practices, the Knights of Columbus has more than $100 billion of life insurance in force.

Committed to providing global charity and service, the Knights of Columbus have contributed $1.55 billion and 691 million volunteer hours to charitable projects over the past decade.

The opinions expressed in the articles linked on this site do not necessarily reflect the views of Knights of Columbus and Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors (KoCAA).

Industry: Financial Services
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees

Knights of Columbus

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**Feel Good About Doing Good**

The Knights of Columbus is a tax-exempt Catholic fraternal benefit society that provides financial security to members and their families through our life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability income insurance, investment and annuity products. Charity is at the core of our missions: our profits are donated to help those in need and to support our faith - $1.73B over the past ten years.

While we have many employees who are not Catholic, we follow the Church’s teachings in our investment strategies and our employee benefits. As part of our religious mission, we support the pro-life cause by contributing to the March for Life and pregnancy resource centers, we oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia, we are evangelists for the Catholic faith, and we help Christians who are facing religious persecution in the Middle East. We all work together to support our two million members as they volunteer to help others in their parishes and communities around the world.

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**Overview**

**The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific projects, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals. This includes acquiring and managing resources and coordinating the efforts of team members, business stakeholders, and third-party contractors or consultants to deliver projects according to plan, and within defined timelines and budget.**

**The Senior Project Manager will direct multiple complex projects involving one or more project teams utilizing Agile, Iterative, or Hybrid methodologies. They are responsible for the adoption and adaptation of project management methodologies based on the context of the project and selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. The Senior Project Manager will also define the project’s objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle. Responsible for preparing and communicating status reports on the health of the project.**

**Core Responsibilities**

-  Define, document and successfully complete complex application development projects (typically with significant business, political or high-profile impact, and high-risk dependencies).

-  Adopt and adapt project management methods and tools, selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches.

-  Ensure that effective project control, change control, risk management, design, development, and testing processes are maintained.

-  Monitor and control resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget, and manage expectations of all project stakeholders.

-  Align project objectives with company goals, and make sure the project team is clear on objectives.

-  Work with Solution Managers to staff initiatives with appropriate skill sets.

-  Communicate project status, progress, and issues effectively and appropriately, including periodic report creation and distribution.

-  Drive vendor selection activities, using the established RFP process. May be assigned Statement of Work (SOW) activities as appropriate.

-  Provide ongoing facilitation and coaching that enables the team to excel at Agile development.

-  Manage sprint velocity-related metrics and goals.

-  Run scrum ceremonies, e.g., daily huddles, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives to actively manage risks and external dependencies.

-  On-Call and/or after-hours work required

**Skills Qualifications**

-  Expertise in project management methodologies and techniques with proven teamwork and influential skills, including Agile, Iterative, and Hybrid methodologies

-  Practical experience managing complex projects/programs in application development, leveraging geographically dispersed teams in the life insurance industry.

-  Significant experience performing the Scrum Master role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory

-  Experience with life, annuity, and universal life (UL) products is required

-  Skilled in developing a culture of teamwork and customer service, including facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

-  Excellent oral and written communication skills

-  Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, vendors, and other departments

-  Experience managing projects with Ingenium Policy Administration system or any other major policy admin platforms will be a major plus.

-  Competency in Microsoft applications, including Visio, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook

-  Experience and Agile tools such as Azure DevOps Boards, JIRA, Rally, etc

-  Experience managing a policy admin platform transformation program/implementing a new policy admin product will be a HUGE plus.

**Education**

**Required:**

-  BA or BS in Business, Project Management, Computer Science, or other business-related field

-  10 or more years of project management experience, including at least 5+ years working with Agile in Application Development. Life Insurance Industry experience required

**Preferred:**

-  PMP Certification, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certifications preferred

**Physical Demands**

Must be able to remain in a stationary position for a majority of the workday.

**Authorization to work in the United States is required**

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

**Compensation**

The wage range for this role takes into account a broad array of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The range below applies as long as the work is performed in Connecticut; the Knights of Columbus reserves the right to adjust the wage range if the position is performed in another location. At the Knights of Columbus, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $110,000 - $187,00.

**KofC Cares**

Our mission is focused on family and faith, and we support our employees in seeking a balanced life.

Employee benefits include:

Time Away: 13 paid holidays per year in addition to vacation and paid sick leave, and flexible workweek schedules.

Professional Development: Certifications, designation, and tuition reimbursement.

Retirement Benefits: 401(k) retirement savings plan with matching company contributions, and cash balance retirement plans fully funded by the company.

Health and Wellness:

- Short-term disability and term life insurance fully paid for by the company;

- Up to 12 weeks of childbirth leave under STD policy.

- One week of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, including adoptive and foster parents.

- A variety of health insurance options, including premium-level family coverage and a pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions. The Order's health plans do not cover abortion, sterilization, or contraception, and the Order has helped advocate for other employers who do not want to provide coverage.

- Long-term disability insurance;

- Dental insurance;

- Vision insurance;

- Health club membership reimbursement;

- Employee Assistance Program

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