Division Portfolio Manager - Project Management
Apply NowCompany: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Location: Salt Lake City, UT 84118
Description:
Job Description
This position helps provide and maintain Church facilities that offer sacred and functional spaces where members can worship, work, learn, make covenants, and receive sacred ordinances. The Division Portfolio Manager - Project Management plays a key leadership role in improving and standardizing how capital renewal and deferred maintenance projects are scoped, prioritized, delivered, and reported across all six U.S. Areas. This role collaborates with internal and external stakeholders-including Area Meetinghouse Facilities Managers (AMFMs) Area Project Managers (APMs), IFM provider project management directors, the Church's Architecture & Engineering division, and within the O&M Division-to strengthen project execution, improve lifecycle planning, and elevate program performance.
Responsibilities
Project Management Strategy and Standardization
Qualifications
About Us
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord's work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings- giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances-our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
This position helps provide and maintain Church facilities that offer sacred and functional spaces where members can worship, work, learn, make covenants, and receive sacred ordinances. The Division Portfolio Manager - Project Management plays a key leadership role in improving and standardizing how capital renewal and deferred maintenance projects are scoped, prioritized, delivered, and reported across all six U.S. Areas. This role collaborates with internal and external stakeholders-including Area Meetinghouse Facilities Managers (AMFMs) Area Project Managers (APMs), IFM provider project management directors, the Church's Architecture & Engineering division, and within the O&M Division-to strengthen project execution, improve lifecycle planning, and elevate program performance.
Responsibilities
Project Management Strategy and Standardization
- Lead the development and implementation of a consistent project management approach across all U.S. Areas for capital renewal and deferred maintenance projects.
- Define and document standard practices and expectations for scope development, project design, specifications, bid processes, risk mitigation (including insurance), closeout documentation, and reporting.
- Partner with IFM provider project management directors and Area Project Managers to ensure alignment, training, and accountability in execution.
- Establish mechanisms for quality control and ongoing project performance evaluation.
- Coordinate regularly with Area Meetinghouse Facilities Managers, Area Project Managers, internal A&E teams, and O&M Division team members to align capital project planning with strategic area needs.
- Work closely with division team members (process improvement, lifecycle/performance, and portfolio managers) to develop tools, dashboards, and systems that enable programmatic project execution.
- Support lifecycle-based prioritization and bundling of projects to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and align with annual and long-range planning goals.
- Conduct regular field visits with Area Project Managers and IFM provider representatives to provide training, validate adherence to standards, gather feedback, and identify improvement opportunities.
- Participate in project verifications and post-project assessments to capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
- Lead enterprise-level initiatives, partnering with the enterprise project management team on initiatives that that impact all areas.
- Serve on HQ committees and cross-functional working groups that support Church facility goals.
- Coordinate with Communications and Training to ensure clear messaging and onboarding.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in construction management, architecture, engineering, facility management, or related field strongly preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in capital project planning and delivery, including 5+ years in a senior or enterprise-level leadership role.
- Experience managing multi-site or nationwide capital programs in a corporate, institutional, or government setting.
- Deep knowledge of project lifecycle planning, budgeting, and execution-especially in deferred maintenance and capital renewal environments.
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority and to coordinate across organizational boundaries.
- Strong relationship-building and communication skills with internal teams, priesthood leaders, external vendors, and facility providers.
- FMP certification required within 1-year of starting in role
- Experience in a hybrid work environment and a willingness to travel for field validation and training.
- Strategic thinker with a knack for turning complex inputs into simple, actionable frameworks.
- Data-savvy with the ability to define reporting needs and guide dashboard development to support decision-making.
- Process-minded with a strong orientation toward continuous improvement.
- Comfortable operating in a matrixed, collaborative environment with multiple internal and external partners.
About Us
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord's work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings- giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances-our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.