Jr. Technology Project Manager

** Job Description
** The University of Washington’s Office of Research has an outstanding opportunity for a Jr. Technology Project Manager.

The Jr. Technology Project Manager is responsible for managing and coordinating software integration, Workday sustainment, and development projects for researcher specific projects. The person in this role will establish relationships with team members, subject matter experts, cross unit stakeholders such as GCA and OSP, and technical staff both in Office of Research and UW IT to achieve efficient business process to streamline research administration.

They must be able to prioritize a heavy workload and escalating issues that meet business goals set by management. Successful candidates must possess outstanding independent judgment in prioritizing critical information, and discretion and diplomacy in working within the larger University of Washington (UW) administrative environment.

The highly decentralized environment of the UW requires the successful candidate to interface productively with business-oriented clients, system end-users, and a technically oriented project team. The candidate must be able to create strong business relationships and have excellent project management skills and understand the research life cycle.

The Jr. Technology Project Manager is a key point of contact for customers, Partners (OSP, GCA, UW IT, EH&S, Etc.), and the project team. It plays a pivotal role in the success of project objectives and future needs. This position supports cross organizational coordination for projects and continued sustainment and maintenance of projects such as Workday integration for improved research administration and compliance.
** Responsibilities:
** Project Management (45%)
• Working with resources to define scope, risks and objectives of major releases, individual projects and project phases; develop schedules and budgets, and monitor progress and risk across multiple streams
• Ensure project teams have adequate resources, skills and support to successfully deliver on prioritized efforts
• Serve software development team(s) as Scrum Master, facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing impediments, coordinating feature development, testing, release and communications across product teams
• Promote agile project management and software development best practices.
• Meet regularly with internal and external stakeholders to schedule projects/features based on prioritization from managers
• Lead, organize and influence positively and effectively, working through unstructured problems and creating the structure necessary to drive for results
• Facilitate resolution of issues within the project decision making structure, determining appropriate escalation and resolution of issues
• Provide overall project leadership and management, including managing scope of projects, schedules and budgets, and generating status reports
• Direct, create, and implement project plans, status updates, risk mitigation plans and other planning materials to support project execution and control activities
• Provide direct and indirect oversight for assigned projects
• Evaluate resources needed for project and make recommendations/requests
• Work with all levels of management to critically evaluate and communicate business issues/risks to campus clients and team members
• Implement appropriate process and policies to collect and report metrics on project performance
• Initiate project proposals when existing products need to be upgraded or replaced or products need to be built or acquired to fill gaps
• Advise on the impact of novel, developing, and mature applications of IT solutions as they relate to research at the University of Washington Analysis (30%)
• Review requirements gathered from stakeholder and system user interviews to ensure approaches and solutions are linked to objectives and future needs and to uncover gaps
• Lead standing and ad hoc work groups to define business needs and potential solutions
• Create artifacts as needed to support clear understanding of business needs, to include business process diagrams, use cases, scenarios, tasks and workflow analysis
• Facilitate…