Daily Sustainability Job Post

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Position Overview:

Purpose of Job

We are looking for a Program/Project Management Lead – ESG/Sustainability for a hybrid position at our San Antonio Corporate office or regional offices in Tampa, Colorado Springs, Phoenix, Charlotte, Plano or remote work is available for candidates who do not live in a location where USAA has a physical office.

Facilitates and leads the execution and delivery of moderately to highly complex non-IT work efforts intended to accomplish business goals and objectives within prescribed timeframes and budgets. Demonstrates an expert understanding of how activities contribute to the achievement of strategic business goals and operational objectives. Collaborates with key partners, vendors and project/program teams to identify mutually helpful outcomes for opposing priorities and direct timelines to ensure objectives are met.

Job Requirements

For related project experience to be considered outside of a (Program/Project Management) title, please upload a project list of all program/project management experience that you have had responsibility of planning, tracking, and delivering. The project list should include: project summary, role, and project timeframe. Failure to provide this documentation may result in disqualification.

About USAA

USAA knows what it means to serve. We facilitate the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. This singular mission requires a dedication to innovative thinking at every level.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identifies and handles existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, supervised, and controlled.
• Follows written risk and compliance policies, standards, and procedures for business activities.
• Drives implementation of moderately to highly complex work typically requiring confidentiality and enterprise-level access to achieve strategic business goals and operational objectives.
• Works closely with cross-functional teams and resources to achieve program and achievements within established timeframes.
• Handles risk by using established risk management practices to address execution challenges associated with quality, schedule and costs, in adherence with risk management framework.
• Accountable for planning, advising and coordinating activities for moderately sophisticated and work efforts to accomplish goals and objectives within a specified timeframe, scope and budget.
• Ensures consistent visibility for teams by supervising and reporting business objectives, work efforts achievements, and key indicators.
• Communicates with work efforts partners and executive/senior management and provides insight on issues through root cause analyses.
• Facilitates collaboration on creative alternatives to project challenges with subject matter authorities.
• Removes obstacles and impediments to ensure business and operational objectives are met.
• Develops, tracks and oversees project budgets that may include necessary capital expenditures, operational expenses, and labor funding requirements.
• Handles ambiguity and consistently seeks to drive clarity amongst project partners.
• Ensures compliance with company and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Defines the control and the overall delivery of the work efforts to meet the goals, objectives and success criteria.
• Establishes overall cadence for communication with impacted partners, and provides framework for underlying work efforts(s) communication plans.
• Identifies and figures out interdependencies of work within a work effort.
• Participates in work effort closure activities to determine benefit / business impact realization to include retrospective management.
• Proactively handles risk by using work efforts management practices to address execution challenges associated with quality, schedule and cost and supports escalation to resolve.
• Adheres to EPMO processes, procedures, controls, standards, tools and templates (as required).
• Drives adoption and challenges standards. Leads subject matter experts.
• Drives the adoption and sustainment of changes within the organization in compliance with USAA’s Change Management framework.

When you apply for this position, you will be required to answer some initial questions. This will take approximately 5 minutes. Once you begin the questions you will not be able to finish them at a later time and you will not be able to change your responses.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 8 years of proven experience in project or program management, including planning, tracking and delivery.
• Experienced knowledge of project management tools and methodologies.
• Experience on project and program management and execution experience delivering sophisticated work efforts working with recognized program and/or project methodologies (i.e. Waterfall and Agile).
• Collaboration skills in a matrixed environment including providing consultative guidance to help solve enterprise level issues.
• Extensive experience leading sophisticated projects with significant number of deliverables including information technology and dependencies across organization; working within defined scope and budgets with bold timelines.
• Extensive understanding of risk management policies and procedures.

Preferred Requirements:

• Knowledge of ESG/Sustainability standards, trends and dynamics driving change, especially in financial services
• Knowledge of SASB/ISSB, TCFD, CDP, GRI and similar ESG/Sustainability reporting and disclosure frameworks
• Experience with delivering ESG/Sustainability data solutions, including building, managing and optimizing data pipelines across cloud environments and curating and modeling ESG/Sustainability related insights
• Ability to influence horizontally and vertically while encouraging others to deliver their best work
• A creative mentality that can be applied to strategy, marketing and execution while working in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
• Passion for sustainability and serving the military and veteran community
• Proficient in SQL and relational databases

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Compensation:

USAA has an effective method for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market position. The salary range for this position is: $117,600 – $211,700*( this does not include geographic differential it may be applied based on your work location)

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance or at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

Geographical Differential: Geographic pay differential is additional pay provided to eligible employees working in locations where market pay levels are above the national average.

Shift premium: will be addressed on an individual-basis for applicable roles that are consistently scheduled for non-core hours.

Benefits:

At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

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Relocation assistance is not available for this position.