Project Manager III - Emory Digital

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Description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

 

**This is a central university office position.**

• Coordinates, plans, supports, and executes enterprise-wide IT projects.
• Provides strategic input for project plan development, budget, and scope.
• Manages the Project Management Life Cycle from beginning to end and establishing cohesion for achieving multi-disciplinary stakeholder and project team buy-in.
• Applies industry-accepted methodologies (i.e., Project Management Institute [PMI]) with a focus on Agile/Scrum delivery to ensure adherence to project management standards and requirements and to provide stakeholders with continual reports on project progress and performance. Influences, supports, and strategizes with project participants, leaders, and decision makers to ensure strategic and effective decision making occurs and mediates conflicts and works effectively with managing priorities.
• Provides project management subject matter expertise (SME) to the department and mentors and supports Project Management Office (PMO) employees.
• Performs project management research to improve and refine skills and to identify trends and best practices for improving PMO performance.
• Meets with stakeholders to validate business cases and to gather facts for establishing and gaining agreement on project charters.
• Consults with project sponsors to clarify project directives, scopes, deliverables, and timelines and to analyze risk.
• Conducts bid sessions and/or vendor RFP efforts to select and manage suppliers and supplier payments.
• Interacts with Enterprise-wide senior management to represent IT's interests, understand customer requirements, validate assumptions and to ensure adherence to project methodology.
• Applies PM tools and methodologies to ensure project milestones are achieved and scope is maintained.
• Observes project team dynamics to ensure effective team member synergies and to resolve issues.
• Creates progressive project milestones for facilitating smaller-scale achievements and to motivate the project team.
• Utilizes PM tools to manage project timelines and accuracy, ensure project resource commitments are met, and to track activities and variances.
• Performs assessments throughout projects to identify risks and potential impact and to develop response strategies for managing and mitigating risk factors.
• Interacts with project customers to verify completion dates, review milestone expectations and manage IT resource schedules.
• Closes project contracts to validate supplier statements of work (SOWs) and verify deliverables.
• Conducts project management research and studies trends and developments under the direction of the PMO Director to support PMO team members and industry colleagues.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelor's degree in a related field and five years of Project Management experience, OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Certified Scrum master.

NOTE: Tasks related to this position can be performed remotely with only occasional visits to an Emory University location.  Eastern (EST) time zone business hours may apply.  Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee.  Emory does not approve as a primary work location in the following states; NJ, AK, and HI, any U.S. Territories or outside of the United States.

Additional Details

Emory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law. Emory University does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training. Students, faculty, and staff are assured of participation in university programs and in the use of facilities without such discrimination. Emory University complies with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act, and applicable executive orders, federal and state regulations regarding nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action (for protected veterans an