Senior Project Manager

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Responsibilities:

The Senior Project Manager will support Barrow Wise's Chicago Public Schools (CPS) project and perform the following duties:

• Coaching and guiding ITS and Business Leaders to ensure the portfolio of projects and projects supports the CPS Vision
• Development of Business Cases and RFPs
• Supporting business and project management staff
• Mentoring junior project management staff and making staff development recommendations
• Occasional supervision of personnel
• Defining project scopes, initiating and managing large, complex enterprise projects
• Creating and executing project work plans and revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Initiating and managing multiple projects and projects in parallel and with multiple dependencies
• Producing project reports and performance metrics
• Communicating with the Portfolio Management Office manager and ITS management regarding the status of a portfolio of projects
• Identifying and managing portfolio risks
• Using influence to eliminate bottlenecks and potential resource alignment problems
• Managing projects and projects within standard project management methodologies to time, quality, and budget
• Identifying resources needed and assigning individual responsibilities
• Managing through all stages of the project life cycle
• Managing stakeholders and stakeholder expectations
• Building strong project teams across multiple CPS divisions
• Providing excellent service to clients (internal and external to ITS)
• Effectively managing vendor relationships in accordance with CPS and ITS strategies and directives
• Providing project status and other deliverables at each stage of a defined project
• Demonstrating a willingness to collaborate and support the PMO and ITS peers and leadership
• Planning, directing, and implementing complex projects on time, within budget, and with desired functionality
• Supporting the advancement of the PMO's mission
• Supporting Portfolio Management that provides a forward-looking picture of project work
• Continuously improving the Project Methodology
• Providing input into Project Management Best Practices
• Educating ITS staff and CPS Project Management stakeholders on PMO processes and tools
• Ability to work across multiple departments and negotiate differing priorities
• Define, analyze, and document business requirements and business cases upon initiation of new projects
• Provides technical consultation to business partners and technology management to ensure that the development of new and/or existing application systems use established standards, procedures, and methodologies
• Evaluate the fitness of various tools that meet specific project needs
• Draft and validate technical and operational requirements, assess and communicate the impacts, trade-offs, risks, costs, benefits, and opportunities of technology solutions to steering committees
• Assist with the development of an architecture strategy and process that helps align technology projects with business requirements
• Support the alignment and/or streamlining of business processes, technology and business strategy
• Perform review of contracts and/or other procurement-related processes and work with CPS partners to define technical requirements for proposals (RFPs)
• Provide a variety of services to appropriately position the CPS organization in support of emerging educational and operational needs
• Document the service components, processes, dependencies, data, compliance mandates, and feasible technologies
• Performing related duties as required
• Work remotely

An ideal candidate has the following:

• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelor's degree
• PMP Certification<