Project Manager ; Publishing Services - US West

Overview

Job Description

Principles of Operation:
Partner to find and create solutions that meet the divinely appointed responsibilities of the Church. Foster an environment of trust and unity. Build upon each other's strengths and ideas to create effective products. Deliver effective and timely communication.

• Clearly understand and communicate project objectives and goals
• Organize the needed resources to meet project requirements
• Owns project-level scope, schedule, and budget
• Ensure projects adhere to Church process and policy equivalent to the sphere of work
• Act as project generalist – may be asked to manage a range of project times (e.g. web, mobile, exhibits, etc.)
• Engage when multiple deliverables coalesce into a cohesive whole and end-to-end management is needed

• Stakeholder Management:
  Understands, coordinates, and manages client and resource team expectations.
• Integration Management:
  Plans, directs, manages, monitors, controls, and closes projects of medium to high complexity.
• Scope Management:
  Uses standard processes to ensure projects/programs include all and only the work required to complete the project successfully.
• Time Management:
  Uses standard processes to ensure the timely completion of projects.
• Cost Management:
  Uses standard processes to ensure projects are completed within the approved budget.
• Quality Management:
  Uses standard processes to ensure the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
• Human Resource Management:
  Uses personal skills and standard processes to make the most effective use of the project team.
• Communications Management:
  Uses standard processes to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. Provides the critical links among people (including senior-level leaders), ideas, and information that are necessary for success.
• Risk Management:
  
  Uses standard process to identify, analyze, and respond to project risk.
• Procurement Management:
  Uses standard processes to acquire goods and services from providers.

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field required.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in project management or Master's degree and 3 years of experience.
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget of projects that are typically of medium complexity, with many deliverables in many languages.
• Manage and communicate between cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in a project management system, for example Work Front Interface and communicate with senior-level leaders.

• PMP certification or other project management certification recognized in specific industries.

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world.

They are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.