The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for managing and executing IT strategic and tactical projects from start to finish. This role also includes creating project plans, managing conflicts, communicating status and ensuring that tasks get completed on-time and in a quality manner. The PM is responsible for cultivating an effective project management discipline within the organization to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards and realize objectives.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Develop and foster trusted relationships with sponsor representatives.
- Work with IT Director and senior managers to develop, create and/or manage project scopes, schedules, risks, resources and/or budgets.
- Lead projects and technical leads by providing guidance, assigning responsibilities and ensuring timely completion of deliverables.
- Soliciting and documenting business and technical requirements.
- Developing as-is and to-be process maps/workflows.
- Translating and simplifying requirements.
- Communicate project status clearly and succinctly to senior management by delivering complex messages in business terms.
- Pro-actively identify potential project risk factors, communicate these to the project team and work with stakeholders to address them.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and drive results in a service oriented and rapidly changing environment.
- Provide cadence, metrics, KPI's, reports that indicate the health of projects.
- Facilitation of project review meetings, capability building, and escalation processes of IT projects to ensure efficient, effective, and successful execution of the project plan.
- Work proactively and collaboratively with IT Director to ensure adequate staffing, funding and resources are in place to reliably execute projects.
- Develop project plans including milestones and track budgets.
- Assemble and coordinate project teams.
- Track project deliverables using appropriate tools.
- Provide direction and support to project team.
- Coordinate with different team members across geographical locations.
- Communicate complex information effectively to team and clients.
- Comply with standard Change Management processes.
- Maintain and improve project management skills and abilities through continuing professional education and certifications.
Educational Background:
Bachelor's degree; Master’s degree a plus.
Skills/Experience:
- 5+ years project management experience.
- Detailed understanding of project management methodologies.
- Expert level experience in a variety of project management tools (i.e. MS project, JIRA, Asana).
- Demonstrated documentation skill for project plans, budgets and requirements development.
- Must be able to work effectively with cross-functional teams and work independently with minimal supervision.
- Experience implementing custom and vendor written applications.
- Solid writing skills and superb spoken communications skills in English.
- Analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Aptitude for learning new technologies.
- Knowledge of data processing systems, concepts and methodologies.
- Assist other departments with selection, implementation and integration of enterprise applications.
- Knowledge of HIPAA and relevant FDA regulations ensuring compliance and implementation throughout job duties.
- Knowledge of QA and UAT processes in advising internal customers with outside vendors.
- Strong work ethic.
- Understanding of general business, health care and health coverage issues.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Aug 4 2018
Active Until:
Sep 4 2018
Hiring Organization:
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit