Project Manager, IT Project Manager, Systems Analyst

Overview

The ITS Project Manager coordinates, plans, and delivers technology initiatives assigned through the Information Technology Services (ITS) enterprise portfolio. This role partners with business owners, functional stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors to define scope, develop and manage integrated project plans, coordinate dependencies, and support successful go-lives and adoption. The IT Project Manager applies ITS project delivery standards, provides transparent status reporting, and escalates risks and decisions to ensure projects are completed on time, within scope, and within approved budget parameters.

About the University of New England
UNE is Maine’s largest private university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible online offerings. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to positively impact a world full of challenges. We are the state’s top provider of health professionals and home to Maine’s only medical and dental colleges, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care programs, and nationally recognized programs in the marine sciences, the natural and social sciences, business, the humanities, and the arts.

• Multiple health and dental plan options, plus vision coverage.
• Up to 8% retirement plan match.
• Generous leave time, including vacation, sick, and personal time, and 12+ holidays per year.
• Educational benefits
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  • UNE tuition waiver for employees, spouses, and domestic partners.
  • UNE tuition waiver for dependents of employees with 1 year of full-time service.
  • 50% tuition reduction if less than 1 year of full-time service.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of assigned projects, including project chartering, planning, execution, go-live readiness, and post go-live stabilization.
• Define project scope, requirements, success metrics, and acceptance criteria with sponsors and business owners.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, including milestones, dependencies, resourcing needs, and critical path activities.
• Coordinate work across ITS teams and business units to ensure deliverables are completed on schedule and aligned to standards.
• Support release and deployment planning, cutover coordination, and post-implementation review to improve delivery outcomes.

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with executive sponsors, functional owners, technical staff, and external partners.
• Develop and execute communication plans appropriate to project scope and risk, ensuring timely, clear updates to stakeholders.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, and decision forums; document outcomes and action items and drive follow-through.
• Promote partnership between ITS and business units, ensuring solutions are co-designed with users and impacted stakeholders.

• Maintain project risk, issue, decision, and action (RIDA) tracking and ensure mitigation plans are developed and executed.
• Manage project scope and change control processes, documenting impacts to timeline, budget, resources, and outcomes.
• Identify and escalate risks, resource constraints, and decisions required to leadership and governance groups.

• Partner with organizational change management and training resources to complete impact assessments, readiness checkpoints, and training and support plans.
• Support business process discussions within project scope to ensure implementation aligns with agreed processes and improves the user experience.
• Coordinate adoption and go-live support activities, including communications, job aids, and stabilization support as needed.

• Coordinate vendor activities, deliverables, and timelines for assigned projects; facilitate vendor status meetings and issue resolution.
• Support procurement and contract-related project activities by providing project inputs and ensuring vendor deliverables align with scope and…