IT Project Manager Level 2

The IT Project Manager directs, plans, and executes IT application and infrastructure projects. Identifies and manages project goals, scope, stakeholders, requirements, and risks. Communicates and collaborates with project stakeholders. Establishes schedules and budgets. Executes project delivery within the project parameters of time, scope, cost, and quality. The project manager is a team player, results-oriented, and dedicated to excellence.

Position Responsibilities may include:

• Perform Project Control; develop an effective plan for controlling the project scope, schedule, and cost baseline, and monitor the project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed
• Create and effectively coordinate documentation to explain changes
• Responsible for assembling project plans and teamwork assignments, directing and monitoring the work efforts of the project team daily.
• Provides feedback on the performance of all internal and external resources to the respective Mgr. and/or Director.
• Collaborate with the project sponsor and functional leader to understand the project’s scope, benefits, and benefactors.
• Responsible for communicating and/or reporting the status of all projects to senior IT leadership, as well as the business. The communication with the business (users) will include helping them understand the impact of the solution, the project's timeline, and expected functionality.
• Track and report key project milestones and adjust project plans and/or resources to meet the needs of the customers/business (users).
• Coordinate communication with all project stakeholders concerning the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort.
• Ensure that all functional deployment deliverables are within accepted department standards and procedures.
• Perform additional projects/duties to support ongoing business needs.
• Participate in additional projects/activities to support ongoing business needs.
• Provide project management training to others in IT and in the business
• Work with IT PMO Manager to develop project management methodology improvements such as the development of templates and instructions

Nature & Scope:

• Applies practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience
• Encouraged to seek continuous improvements
• Performs a range of mainly straightforward assignments
• Works independently with general supervision
• Problems faced are difficult but not typically complex

Knowledge & Skills:

• Extensive use of Microsoft Project, including creating and maintaining a project schedule, identifying successor and predecessor project tasks, establishing schedule baselines, call out items of attention (date pushes due to scope change or increase in duration)
• Proven skills and abilities in managing enterprise level IT projects end to end
• Knowledge of business processes, applications, and workflows
• High level of attention to detail and data accuracy
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience implementing new processes and procedures
• Ability to communicate effectively with the project team, business partners, and vendors
• High levels of multi-tasking are required, and quick adaptability to change
• Project Focus: understands, anticipates, and meets business and project needs
• Ability to deliver on commitments consistently, take initiative, responsibility and be accountable
• Ability to apply good judgment, decision-making skills, strong work ethics, and integrity on the job
• Ability to manage through influence and leveraging of partnerships
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical
• Ability to apply good judgment, strong work ethic, and integrity on the job.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience managing IT projects

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or another related field

People Management: No

Physical Requirements / Work Environment:

• Must be able to perform essential responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodations

Reports To:

• MANAGER, IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE

The Company provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of a person’s race, color, religion (including religious dress or grooming practices), creed, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, uniform service member or veteran status, ancestry, disability, physical or mental disability (including HIV/AIDS), medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, request for protected leave, marital status, sex, pregnancy, age (over 40), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law. The Company will comply with all federal and state regulations and statutes about individuals with disabilities.