Project Manager, III - IT

JOB SUMMARY:

The Project Manager has overall responsibility for the successful planning and execution of projects for IT. The Project Manager will work closely with the operations, solutions delivery, infrastructure, innovation, governance and security teams, business partners, and vendors to define, develop, and execute deployment of their assigned projects. The Project Manager ensures that the deployment of projects to the production environment follows the project life cycle methodology and successfully meets the business goals.

• Works closely with all Technology teams, business partners, and Vendors to plan, organize, secure, and manage resources for assigned project efforts following software development lifecycle and project implementation policies and procedures as applicable. Independently research, analyze, identify, and document the tasks to achieve the project goals. Coordinate, facilitate, and lead project team meetings to accomplish project deliverables.
• Responsible for the management of the project including; work statements, work breakdown structures, developing and tracking budget and schedule, tracking individual project tasks, providing risk analysis, tracking and resolving issues and action items, requirements gathering, quality assurance, providing various project management visibility and control measures and reports as needed and communicating to project team and stakeholders.
• Work closely with our business partners to understand their business and system problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements. Support requirement discussions, requirement reviews, design reviews, testing and remaining project activities to ensure required resources participate and deliverables meet project scope and schedule.
• Communicate Program Information, status, and key health metrics to stakeholders. Facilitate inter-team communication and resolution of Program-level dependencies, including weekly status meeting and monthly executive steering committee meetings.
• Trace the requirements through life cycle of the project to ensure that the scope is managed and that the original requirements are delivered.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred in MIS, Technology or Business.
• Other:
  Knowledge of project management concepts and processes, requirements gathering, or business analysis preferred.

• 5+ years equivalent work experience
• Experience preferred in project management, business analysis
• Requires the use of sound business judgment in coordinating the requirements of the user group(s) for a project
• Conflict resolution and problem-solving techniques required
• Good in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation required;
• or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Solid practical experience dealing with project management, particularly dealing with proposed efforts and leading them through a defined process of prioritization and demand management.
• Ability to work progressively with a wide range of individual levels, sponsors, stakeholders and resources to align activities and initiatives.
• Demonstrated cross-functional expertise in diverse fields such as IT including Cyber Security, marketing, strategy, finance, operations, etc. and with skills as far ranging as business case development, ROI analysis, cost estimating, and what-if analyses.
• Demonstrated experiencing in presenting persuasive recommendations to leadership as well as key external stakeholders, including ability to communicate complex ideas and recommendations to leadership that highlights a clear decision framework based on analysis and experience.
• Cross-Team/Cross Department Project Leadership experience.
• Strong Organizing & Inter-Personal Skills.
• Technology experience/background a plus.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Consistent attendance is a job requirement.