Project Manager, It Jobs

Education and Work Experience:

• Five years' technical experience: Preferred
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education/related experience: Required
• One year's leadership experience: Preferred
• Two years' project management experience: Preferred
• Master's Degree: Preferred

Licenses/Certifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification: Preferred

Essential Functions:

• Provides timely status and progress of projects to stakeholders. Delivers presentations to present project updates and facilitate decisions. Works with the education teams to develop and provide training resources.
• Creates and manages project plans for installation of hardware and applications, upgrades, or conversions. Utilizes standardized project planning tools with IT standards to ensure project schedule, status report and other project artifacts are maintained accurately and kept current Delegates tasks while ensuring deadlines and deliverables are still met.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
• Creates stakeholder registers, communication schedules, risk plans, support matrixes, and other standard project management artifacts. Ensures testing of technology, processes and changes, etc., are conducted as part of the project. Follows up on outstanding issues post-implementation of a project.
• Conducts project and team meetings, appropriately tracking action items, risks, and decisions. Manages tasks and timelines and schedules implementation resources. Records and manages all outstanding issues and project risks. Creates, manages, and tracks simple project budgets, including understanding project ROI. Directs and manages outside vendors, contractors, and suppliers in support of project.
• Ensures adherence to IT policies and procedures including change management. Analyzes and manages all project scope changes through appropriate approval processes.