Please Note:
- The Position is Remote with occasional presence needed in the Clients location.
- Schedule: Full-time 40 hours per week
- Job Type: 5 years
Summary:
- The Project Manager will be capable of managing multiple concurrent projects of varying complexity across the clients ranging from classroom technology implementations to district-wide enterprise systems.
- Project managers will be able to effectively communicate with diverse stakeholders while ensuring alignment with the Client.
- The Project Manager will coordinate people and processes to ensure that projects are delivered on time within budget and produce the desired results.
Position Responsibilities:
- Determine and define project scope and objectives
- Create comprehensive project plans with realistic timelines milestones and deliverables
- Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
- Estimate budgets based on scope of work and resource requirements
- Track project costs in order to meet budget
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy adjustments and progress
- Manage contracts with suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables
- Utilize industry best practices techniques and standards throughout entire project execution
- Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed
- Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement
- Oversee all incoming and outgoing project documentation
- Design risk mitigation plans
- Optimize and improve processes and overall approach where necessary
- Develop project evaluations and assessment of the results.
Requirements
Experience required:
- Qualification in project management or equivalent.
- Possess strong theoretical and practical knowledge of and experience with project management best practices and with a demonstrated successful track record.
- Direct work experience as a project manager over large software systems implementations.
- Direct work experience as a project manager over one or more large enterprise-wide software solutions such as Oracle PeopleSoft and SAP.
- Proficient with project management techniques tools and software.
- Ability to understand project detail but manage from the overall project perspective.
- Proven experience in strategic planning and risk management.
- Proven experience in change management.
- Excellent management and team-building skills.
- Ability to analyse understand and effectively communicate between business requirements and technical design and implementation.
- Knowledge of business application lifecycle management.
- Knowledge of system development life cycle management.
- Budget planning and management.
- Problem-solving negotiation and decision-making skills to influence management as well as internal and external partners.
- Ability to apply sound judgment strong leadership and negotiating skills.
- Ability to manage significant responsibility within the context of shifting priorities.
- Ability to be flexible in a changing work environment.
- Work well with others in an integrated team environment.
Educational Qualifications:
- Bachelor s or master s degree in computer science information systems business or a related field.
- Proficient with project management software tools and collaboration platforms
- Project manager of at least two successful large-scale software systems implementations.
- 5 years of IT and business/industry work.
- 5 years of leadership responsibility managing midsize to large teams and influencing senior-level management.
- Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification is preferred
- Direct work experience with public K-12 schools higher education or educational entity data and systems.
- Project Management experience in a large K-12 public school district higher education or educational entity preferred.
Bachelor s or master s degree in computer science, information systems, business, or a related field. Proficient with project management software tools and collaboration platforms Project manager of at least two successful large-scale software systems implementations. 5 years of IT and business/industry work. 5 years of leadership responsibility managing midsize to large teams and influencing senior-level management. Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification is preferred Direct work experience with public K-12 school, higher education, or educational entity data and systems. Project Management experience in a large K-12 public school district, higher education, or educational entity preferred. Salary Range: $138320-$148320
Education
Bachelor s or master s degree in computer science, information systems, business, or a related field