IT Project Manager II (Remote​/Time-Limited) - WashU IT

Location

Jefferson City, MO

40

• Manages project closeout activities.

Under minimal supervision, this position directs and manages project work to ensure appropriate communication of project status, scope, risk. This team member manages assigned projects per standards and guidelines in order to facilitate the completion of projects within budget and schedule. Project work is typically moderate in complexity, requiring project manager flexibility to apply various tools and techniques to provide structure to the project, leveraging relevant experience and ingenuity.

Workload may include managing multiple projects, at various stages, simultaneously or a single more complex, risk involved project. This team member builds and maintains working relationships with sponsoring organizations, stakeholders, team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects. They are familiar with a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures. This employee relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.

They perform a variety of tasks and leads and directs the work of others. This team member actively participates and contributes to the WU IT Project Manager Community of Practice.

• Creates and executes project communication plan.
• Develops and communicates project goals, responsibilities, expectations, risks and feedback with all parties in a timely manner.
• Sets and manages customer and stakeholder expectations specific to the project.
• Communicates project direction, approach, priorities, events and status to all project resources and business sponsors.
• Builds working relationships with team members, vendors and other departments involved in the projects.
• Influences decision-making on projects; works with key stakeholders, sponsors and senior management to secure acceptance and approval of deliverables.

• Analyzes and selects appropriate project management methodologies to develop plans, assign roles and responsibilities, manage tasks and deliverables; authors improvements to methodologies.
• Develops project charter, budget and work breakdown structure (WBS) and other required components of the project plan (change management plan, scope management plan, cost management plan, risk management, procurement management plan, stakeholder management plan, communications management plan, quality management plan, human resource management plan).
• Identifies needed resources, negotiates use of those resources, assigns responsibilities and develops time frames to facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables.

• Manages execution of project plans to support the ongoing needs of the IT department’s customers.
• Tracks and monitors project health utilizing standard metrics for schedule, scope, budget and stakeholder engagement;
  Tracks actual results to plan and analyze impact to report status: takes corrective action.
• Assigns work to project team and coordinates resources.
• Assures all necessary project deliverables are completed according to specification in the quality plan.
• Manages the stated scope and requirements assuring project changes are highlighted, understood and approved by the project sponsor.
• Assess and mitigates project risks and issues; engages project team to identify and resolve problems.
• Relies on extensive knowledge and professional discretion to achieve goals.
• Manages project procurements and external service providers.
• Schedules and facilitates meetings related to projects.
• Manages project closeout activities.

• Leads and motivates project team to meet specific deadlines while meeting customer satisfaction expectations.
• Lends expertise to teams and task forces.
• Coordinates and facilitates lessons learned sessions for all projects, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Ensures project team(s) effectively utilize internal project management process and documentation standards.
• Actively participates and contributes to PM Community of Practice.
• Mentors and…