Technical Project Managers

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Technical Project Managers / IT Project Manager

Establish project teams and provide overall direction for technical projects from initiation through to delivery. Perform project requirements, estimation, and budget management. Formulate project scope and delivery strategies and establish milestones/schedules. Maintain and report project status and monitor progress of all team members. Gather required data from end-users to evaluate objectives, goals, and scope to create technical specifications. Serve as liaison between technical and non-technical departments in order to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.

Keep leadership informed of key issues that may impact project completion, budget, or other results.

• Lead planning and implementation of assigned projects.
• Coordinate and/or facilitate project kick-off meetings, workshops, and other meeting formats within the scope of the project.
• Define project plans including scope, tasks, resources, schedules, budgets, risks, etc.
• Track project deliverables and monitor budget expenditures using standard project management tools.
• Continuously monitor and report on progress and quality activities of the project to all stakeholders.
• Implement and manage project change management, risk management and mitigation actions to achieve project success.
• Perform appropriate project closure that includes evaluation, assessment of results and closure documents.
• Lead, coach and motivate project team members on a proactive basis.

Equivalency Statement: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Job Levels:

• Technical Project Managers, III:
  Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 6 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 4 years of directly related work experience.

• 3+ years of experience with cross-functional IT projects.
• Progressively more responsible experience with IT projects of moderate to high complexity.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience with predictive (i.e., waterfall) and familiar with adaptive (i.e., agile) methods.
• Experience with Higher…