Central Planning Cycle Scheduler - Part Time

## About the role - Own the planning calendar and Cycle cadence - Build and maintain the master planning calendar for the 12-week Cycle, including the meetup and kickoff week, execution sprints, the midpoint replanning checkpoint, demos, retrospectives, and end-of-cycle reviews. - Schedule and coordinate the recurring leadership cadence: leadership reviews, monthly business reviews, and the Cycle's leadership checkpoints, and ensure the workstream-level review calendar aligns to it. - Run the planning timeline for the next Cycle in parallel with the current one, since next-cycle planning begins at mid-cycle. - Sequence proposal drafts, leadership alignment sessions, mission-sheet reviews, and finalization of workstreams, DRIs, and squads ahead of the next meetup. - Facilitate the midpoint replan: help workstream owners decide where course corrections are needed and reflect those changes cleanly in the plan. - Manage change: keep the plan current as scope, priorities, resourcing, and dependencies shift, with minimal disruption to teams. ## Requirements - Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 4+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR equivalent experience. - Demonstrated experience owning schedules, calendars, and delivery cadence for large, cross-functional programs. - Excellent written and verbal communication and the ability to keep a large, distributed group aligned and informed. - Experience supporting a Program Management Office or a comparable central planning or delivery-excellence function. - Track record coordinating across multiple partner organizations and influencing without direct authority. - Experience maintaining a planning system of record and enforcing data quality across many teams. - Familiarity with software or platform release cycles, launch readiness, and dependency management. - Experience applying AI-assisted or automated tooling to scheduling, forecasting, reporting, or process improvement. - Strong bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and a habit of getting ahead of risks before they become blockers.