Cyber Security Modernization Project Manager

Hybrid – onsite 3 days/week. Must be local. Always a chance for hire after 6 months.

Responsible for leading the initiation, planning, execution and closure phases for the Network Redesign project, a key initiative within the medical center’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Modernization (CIM) program. This project is a collaboration between our organization and Cisco Systems, and comprises multiple network and security-focused work streams. Applies project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project and program activities in order to meet IT related delivery requirements against a baseline of cost, schedule, and scope and drives success against CIM’s guiding principles of establishing a target‑state infrastructure that is Simple, Supportable, Secure and Scalable.

As a member of the IT Portfolio Management Office supporting the universities program咖 forum, the Project Manager should have experience in enterprise technology projects and general familiarity with network technologies. The individual should also have experience with vendor management. The Project Manager will lead the work streams through initiation, planning, execution and closure phases as they move from planning, to design, build, installation, go‑live, and training, and ultimately facilitate a transition to an operational state.

The Project Manager performs the essential functions required to ensure consistent, quality, successful delivery of assigned projects, while managing competing demands of scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and stakeholder expectations. The Project Manager will have a solid core skill set as well as the ability to interact with all levels of staff, executives and vendor contacts. The Project Manager will need to have the ability to balance and coordinate numerous priorities and demonstrate qualities of trust, teamwork and transparency while ensuring  every project is managed to maximize customer satisfaction.

The Project Manager will also align with the CIM Program Manager to report status, manage risks and issues, highlight upcoming milestones, identify budget needs and provide clear stakeholder communication.

The duties of this position are performed under supervision of a Associate Director. Most assignments completed will be subject to periodic review and approval by the Associate Director.

• Formulates/defines project scope objectives in a collaborative manner with medical center business customers, IT technical staff and the PMO through independent research and fact-finding in order to understand the needs of the project and estimate the effort in terms of time and money.
• Assess hardware, software, and licensing needs, and directs customers on developing fiscal budgets for project spending; discusses ROI where appropriate to understand and capture stated benefits.
• Ensures formal acceptance of the project scope; ensures that the scope and Verdals goals include all the required work to complete the project.
• Works closely with the user community in validating that the technology solution discovered in scoping will meet their needs.
• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, decomposes high-level information into details, abstracts up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguishes user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicates and collaborates with external and internal customers to analyze needs and functional requirements and delivers the following artifacts as needed:
  Functional requirements, Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs.
• Utilizes experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
• Drives and challenges business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Manages the initiation, planning, execution, controlling and closure processes of the project life cycle.
• Prepares project  to formally initiate the project and secures sign-off by the sponsor.
• Leads business and technical teams through solution…