Hybrid Area Facilities Portfolio Manager – Meetinghouse Facilities

at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Job title: Area Facilities Portfolio Manager – Meetinghouse Facilities
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Salt Lake City, United States

About the role

• Area Facilities Portfolio Manager overseeing Church facility management and maintenance activities. Coordinating with departments and stakeholders for effective facility management in a spiritual setting.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate sensitive issues arising from the DTAs or departments.
• Work with stakeholders inside and outside the department to facilitate alignment to garner stakeholder support, resolve disputes, and develop solutions and proposals to meet high-level leadership needs.
• Help craft alternative or creative solutions to provide acceptable options for presiding authorities and leaders.
• Work with those within the department and outside to deliver on those solutions.
• Help DTAs and departments determine the appropriateness and the value of various requests and expectations from priesthood leaders, members, and friends.
• Provide alternative suggestions if a requested need (or its cost, timeliness, and quality expectations) does not align with MFD principles.
• Support the Annual Plan performance for each DTA and department.
• Help validate Annual Plan proposals, identify issues that may arise and coordinate ways to resolve them.
• Provide measures, updates, and ongoing status reporting on Annual Plan performance.
• Provide information, assessment, and recommendations to help areas meet targets/performance.
• Coordinate master planning with planners, as needed.
• Communicate frequently with customers, employees, vendors and contractors to develop and maintain effective relationships.
• Manage a team of Customer Support Managers.

Requirements

• BS degree in facility management, construction management, business, or a related field, with 10 years of experience in facility management, real estate, construction, architecture, property management, etc.
• In lieu of a degree, may substitute at least 12 years' experience in same or similar field with 9 or more years in a leadership role.
• Excellent relationship-building skills, proactive customer service, and strong communication abilities.
• Proven senior manager in a multi-discipline work environment and ability to manage difficult situations to achieve a positive and appropriate resolution.
• Ability to communicate professionally with other employees, priesthood leaders, contractors and vendors.
• Must have a strategic outlook, the ability to anticipate needs, strong negotiating skills, and forward thinking.
• Required to have IFMA Training.
• FMP, Facility Management Professional.

Benefits

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