Includes the planning and tracking of projects both (tactical and strategic), cost effectiveness, communication, risk analysis, quality assurance, team and vendor management, and implementation of highly visible, sensitive and multi-faceted projects. Identifies and resolves issues related to projects. Ensures assigned projects are delivered within scope, schedule, budget and quality levels are consistent with partner/customer expectations.
Essential Functions:
- Manages moderately complex projects or multiple simple projects
- Develops solutions that align with strategic direction and standards
- Completes components of the business case
- Negotiates agreement on project schedule and budgets
- Applies methods or recognized equivalents appropriate to the specific needs of the project/client
- Demonstrates understanding of the need to manage risk issues
- Participates in the application of the risk management process
- Develops and sustains strong working relationships with client project team staff
- Demonstrates application of approved project management methods and business methods to projects
- With guidance may convert business cases to business plans
- Develops and maintains the project plan
- May develop and execute user training plans
- With guidance coordinates the collection and validation of business requirements
- With guidance stays abreast of enterprise-wide projects and prevents or manages associated conflicts
- With guidance determines the impact of current/existing technologies on the project and communicates impact to sponsors
- Manages the overall resource capacity (supply) and scheduled work (demand) for the delivering organization including forecasting and impact assessment
- Works on assignments of diverse scope
- Generally performs within broadly defined practices and guidelines, and also modifies or suggests enhancements
- Requires planning to coordinate with other departments or resources
- Oversees transition to operational production status
- Manages project close-out activities
- Develops and conducts post-implementation review
- May participate in overseeing the transition of project team members to new projects
- Responsibilities impact the achievement of key department and/or functional objectives
- Contributes to the achievement of department objectives
- Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve department objectives would normally affect expenditures and resources
- Total project budget typically up to $10 Million
- Project size typically multiple sites and/or multiple regions and/or up to 5 interdependent processes
- Balances schedule, scope and budget, renegotiate with sponsor as needed
- Tracks and reports on project and deliverable status and manages variances
- Executes the project plan, any contingency plans and all identified plans
- Regularly develops and manages issue escalation and the resolution process
- Ensures project alignment with business strategy
- Involves interpreting and analyzing established concepts
- Exercises judgment to make decisions for less defined issues and selects methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
- Often prepares content and may make appropriate presentations
- Develops solutions to complex problems
- May refer to established precedents and policies when making decisions
- Requires significant analysis to develop solutions for complex problems
- Represents the primary interface between the customer and the project team
- Communicates requirements, goals and expectations clearly and concisely, listening to individuals' questions and concerns, to ensure clarity and direction
- Assume other duties as directed
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Three (3) or more years project management experience
- Four (4) year degree in related field or equivalent experience
- Understand all project life cycle phases and applies knowledge in the delivery of at least one (1) phase of the project delivery life cycle
- Understands and applies knowledge of change management process on projects
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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