Assistant Director, Transformation & Portfolio Management

About Fordham:

Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom.

The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program ( EAP ); tuition remission; and generous time off.

Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.

Department: Office Of The Budget

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Assistant Vice President for Finance Operations and Strategy in the Office of Finance, the Assistant Director, Transformation & Portfolio Management provides project and portfolio management support for a range of cross-functional transformation initiatives sponsored by Finance.

Working with the Assistant Vice President, executive sponsors, and functional leaders, the Assistant Director translates approved objectives into structured implementation plans; organizes workstreams and governance; maintains schedules, milestones, and project documentation; and tracks progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and resource needs.

The position ensures that responsibilities are clearly assigned, commitments are followed through, and significant barriers are elevated for resolution.

Essential Functions:

Transformation Project & Portfolio Management

Translates approved priorities and future-state objectives into structured implementation plans with defined workstreams, responsibilities, owners, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and measures of success.

Develops and maintains project schedules, roadmaps, responsibility matrices, decision logs, risk and issue trackers, and other core project documentation.

Monitors progress across the transformation portfolio, follows up on commitments, and identifies changes in timing, scope, resources, or dependencies, or other factors that may affect successful implementation.

Maintains a consolidated portfolio view of major Finance-sponsored initiatives, supporting the prioritization, sequencing, coordination, and ongoing management of cross-functional transformation work.

Governance & Implementation Coordination

Coordinates working sessions, cross-functional project teams, steering groups, and executive reviews and ensures appropriate stakeholders are engaged at key decision points.

Develops agendas, status reports, decision materials, and follow-up documentation and maintains clear records of decisions and assignments.

Identifies and tracks project risks, resource requirements, dependencies, and unresolved issues and elevates significant barriers to the Assistant Vice President and appropriate project sponsors.

Supports current-state assessments, gap analyses, and implementation roadmaps needed to move initiatives toward defined future-state objectives.

Reporting & Decision Support

Develops dashboards and executive updates summarizing progress, milestones, risks, decisions, resource needs, and expected impact.

Partners with Finance Planning and Analytics and other subject-matter experts on business cases, financial analysis, research, and performance measures.

Maintains accessible portfolio documentation and support communications that demonstrate the purpose, progress, and institutional impact of major initiatives.

Contributes to the development and continuous improvement of common transformation-management tools, templates, and practices.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required.

A minimum of five years of relevant professional experience, or an equivalent combination of relevant professional experience, internships, and/or education.

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree in business administration, public administration, higher education, organizational leadership, or a related field.

Experience in higher education or another complex, mission-driven institution.

Experience in a transformation office, project management office, consulting environment, or strategic implementation function.

Familiarity with sustainability planning, AASHE STARS , or institutional sustainability reporting.

Experience with project- and portfolio-management platforms, dashboards, collaboration tools, or data visualization.

Project-management, change-management, Lean, Six Sigma, or comparable certification.

Minimum Salary: $115,500

Maximum Salary: $125,000