Project Management Specialist

Project Management Specialist

Who We Are

Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) drives the future of finance and treasury by developing the leaders of tomorrow through world-class certifications, learning experiences, membership, events, and thought leadership.

AFP's core values center on growth, collaboration, innovation, and courageous leadership. We are looking for people who are passionate about building products that create meaningful value for our members and customers.

A Typical Week May Look Like This…

• Coordinate and support assigned cross-functional projects, product initiatives, and launches from planning through completion, helping ensure timely execution and alignment with AFP’s priorities and business goals.
• Develop and maintain project plans outlining scope, timelines, deliverables, task ownership, dependencies, risks, and measures of success.
• Track project progress, coordinate competing priorities, identify risks or barriers, and recommend adjustments to keep work on schedule.
• Provide clear and consistent project status updates to teams and leadership, including progress, decisions, risks, dependencies, and next steps.
• Coordinate across programs to align awareness, engagement, conversion, transaction, and re-engagement activities with AFP’s strategic objectives.
• Manage the development, routing, review, approval, and execution of contracts associated with AFP cross-functional products.
• Coordinate with sponsors, clients, subject-matter experts, vendors, and internal teams to confirm expectations, responsibilities, deliverables, timelines, and quality standards.
• Support successful execution of assigned sponsorship and advertising programs, ensuring contractual obligations, insertion-order requirements, and delivery deadlines are met.
• Maintain accurate project, contract, sponsorship, and advertising documentation so stakeholders have clear visibility into status and fulfillment.
• Create, maintain, and update the content strategy project plan with internal stakeholders to keep teams aligned, on schedule, and equipped to plan content effectively.
• Help ensure completed projects and products meet AFP quality standards, customer expectations, strategic objectives, and contractual requirements.
• Collaborate with internal teams to develop, document, and maintain scalable processes, standard operating procedures, workflows, and project-management practices.
• Identify and recommend improvements to efficiency, quality, cross-functional coordination, customer experience, and support for product and revenue growth.

Is This You?

• You have demonstrated ability to coordinate and support multiple projects and product initiatives from planning through delivery.
• A Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.
• You can translate project priorities into actionable plans with clear timelines, tasks, ownership, deliverables, and documentation.
• You are highly organized and attentive to detail, with the ability to balance multiple tasks, stakeholders, and deadlines.
• You bring strong analytical and critical-thinking skills and can identify issues, evaluate information, and recommend practical solutions.
• You are proactive and resourceful in identifying risks, resolving challenges, and supporting timely project execution.
• You collaborate effectively across teams, help maintain alignment, and contribute to a supportive, cooperative work environment.
• You communicate clearly and responsively with colleagues, leadership, sponsors, clients, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• You can coordinate contracts, deliverables, and external partner requirements; familiarity with sponsorship or advertising programs is valuable.
• You have a dependable, service-oriented approach and focus on positive experiences for internal and external stakeholders.
• You look for opportunities to improve processes and can help document and implement practical workflows and procedures.
• You are adaptable, open to feedback, and committed to continuous learning and improvement.
• You take pride in producing accurate, thorough, high-quality work and following tasks through to completion.
• You are comfortable using and learning project-management tools, business systems, and standard office technology to keep work organized.

This Is Us!

• We are a collaborative team of individuals who are hardworking and entrepreneurial.
• We take ownership in how our specific role drives the organization’s success.
• We are intellectually curious and have a strong ability to adapt to change.
• We work autonomously and in cross-functional teams and are dedicated to demonstrating extraordinary results at a fast pace.

AFP Offers:

• A collegial, casual work environment.
• Competitive base salary.
• Great career growth.
• Superb benefits plan, including a generous vacation/sick/holiday leave policy, medical, dental and vision health insurance, 401K plan with employer match and flexible schedules.
• "When Work Works" award by the Society for Human Resource Management for our flexible workplace.

AFP CORE VALUES

We exist for the success of the corporate finance professional and seek candidates who embody our AFP Core Values:

• We always strive to be better.
• We listen, we speak up, we smash silos.
• We are courageous.
• We are all in it together.

This posting is not intended to be all-inclusive, and responsibilities can be expected to evolve over time to meet changing business needs. The employee may be required to perform other related duties to meet these needs. While AFP’s intent is always to be clear and transparent about the expectations of this role, this job description may be reviewed and updated accordingly with or without notice.

AFP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.