IT Project Manager - 83014

Founded in 1986, St. Charles Community College (SCC) has areputation as one of the best two-year colleges in the state of Missouri. SCC's service area includes a six-county region with apopulation exceeding 540,000. SCC's main campus, located in Cottleville, has won architectural awards for its innovative,contemporary design. The college's Dardenne Creek Campus featuresthe Center for Healthy Living and the Field to Table Institute.

Opening Fall 2025, the Innovation West Campus located in Wentzvillefeatures the Regional Workforce Innovation Center. With a focus on innovation, St. Charles Community College is a leader in delivering high quality education in a state-of-the-art learning environment.

The success of SCC is rooted in the mission of serving the community by "focusing on academic excellence, student success,workforce advancement, and life-long learning within a globalsociety."

The IT Project Manager is responsible for planning and leading complex technology projects that support the institution's academic, administrative, and strategic goals. This role will oversee major initiatives, including ERP migrations, system implementations, data integrations, and system improvements. The Project Manager will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, and vendor relationships, and ensure effective communication among IT, institutionaldepartments, and executive leadership.

The position will also support change management, testing, training, documentation, and the successful adoption of new technologies across the College.

• Plan, manage, and deliver complex IT projects from initiationthrough implementation and post-launch evaluation.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities.
• Lead enterprise system initiatives, including ERP migrations,upgrades, implementations, and related integrations.
• Coordinate cross-functional project teams that may include ITstaff, faculty, administrators, institutional departments, vendors,and consultants.
• Facilitate requirements gathering and translate institutionalneeds into clear technical and functional project requirements.
• Manage project scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, issues,change requests and resolutions.
• Monitor project progress and provide regular status updates toproject sponsors, executive leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate data migration, system configuration, testing,validation, and implementation activities.
• Oversee integrations between enterprise applications,third-party platforms, and institutional data systems.
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, deliverables,timelines, and project-related performance expectations.
• Support change management efforts, including stakeholder engagement, communication, training, documentation, and useradoption.
• Prioritize projects in alignment with institutional strategic goals.
• Ensure projects comply with institutional policies, data governance standards, cybersecurity requirements, accessibilityexpectations, and applicable regulations.
• Maintain accurate and complete project documentation, includingdecisions, requirements, meeting records, testing results, and implementation plans.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, steering committee updates, and decision-making processes.
• Coordinate project resources and assist with resolvingcompeting priorities, barriers, and resource constraints.
• Evaluate project outcomes, document lessons learned and recommend improvements to project management practices.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of institutional IT project management standards, templates, and processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of the institution's technology and strategic priorities.

• Demonstrated experience leading large, complex IT projects from initiation through implementation and post-launch support.