Senior IT Project Manager

Job Description

Position Summary - Leads the planning, executing and implementation of multiple complex projects and programs. The selected Senior IT Project Manager must maintain complete control of project scope, schedule, budget, risk & issues. Facilitate timely decisions to maintain project schedule and budget. Provide IT Leadership with regular project updates, create and maintain trusting relationships, identify, and manage project issues, identify project risks early and assist by providing prudent and timely recommendations for risk response. In addition, supports, trains, and educates Project Management Office (aka PMO) and Non-PMO staff in all aspects of PMO processes. Partners with campus stakeholders to collect feedback on potential improvements and help create project management processes catering to the unique culture of Stevens Institute of Technology.

Job Responsibilities

• Brings experience in project management best practices and governance to help develop the technology Project Management Office including establishing frameworks, processes, and templates.
• Coaches, collaborates with, educates, and influences decision makers and stakeholders to implement enterprise procedures and processes to improve our project delivery success rate.
• Defines IT project scope, goals, and deliverables in support of business goals. Creates and maintains project documentation. Monitors and controls execution phase to ensure that projects are completed on time and meet business and system requirements.
• Manages the Project Management Life Cycle from beginning to end and communicates frequently with stakeholders and project teams to ensure stakeholder and project team buy-in.
• Provides support for project plan development and monitoring timelines, budgets, and scope. Utilize PM tools to manage project timelines and accuracy, ensure project resource commitments are met, and to track activities and variances.
• Creates project budgets; estimate resources needed and work effort for project activities and negotiate with resource managers to ensure that the appropriate resources are assigned to achieve project goals. Record time spent and report on variance.
• Applies industry-accepted methodologies (i.e., PMI (Project Management Institute)) to ensure adherence to project management standards and requirements and to provide stakeholders with continual reports on project progress and performance.
• Applies PM tools and methodologies to ensure project milestones are achieved and scope is maintained.
• Conduct project completion reviews, resource and vendor assessments and create recommendation reports to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Observes project team dynamics to ensure effective team member synergies and to resolve and escalate issues.
• Creates progressive project milestones for facilitating smaller-scale achievements and to motivate the project team.
• Performs assessments throughout projects to identify risks and potential impact and to develop response strategies for managing and mitigating risk factors.
• Participates in the evaluation, selection, maintenance and continuous enhancements of project management methodology, tools and templates, and contributes to the overall improvement of the PMO.
• Develops standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation required by the PMO which would include detailed project management plans, schedules and status reports.
• Reports on the status of the overall project. Identifies and communicates resource conflicts. Gives presentations on project updates, project cycle, and expected results.
• Solicits regular feedback from stakeholders and project sponsors to continually improve project performance.
• Initiates review of projects after completion to ensure realization of benefits.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or higher and seven years of related experience in project management or combination of education and relevant experience.
• PMP Certification preferred.

Experience

• 7+ years of hands-on IT project management experience.
• Experience in successfully running infrastructure, software development and product implementation projects is required.
• Sufficient technical background to: Understand the technologies and technical issues involved with IT projects; Ability to manage project scope and resources; Anticipate, identify and manage resolutions of critical obstacles.
• Proficiency with project management/scheduling software, Microsoft Office Suite.
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