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This position is in-office in Salt Lake City, UT

Job Profile Summary

The Project Manager II oversees the execution and process of all projects for their department. The Project Manager II will work with multiple teams, project requesters, and creative teams to develop project plans according to strategic development priorities, as defined by project requesters and leadership. This position is accountable for ensuring that the scope, dates, commitments, and project plans are communicated to all stakeholders and updated as necessary. The individual monitors and reports project status-including risks, issues affecting project schedules, and milestone achievements-to stakeholders and departmental leadership. The Project Manager II develops project plans and schedules and ensures projects meet departmental requirements, standards, policies, and deadlines. This individual is expected to keep fully informed of departmental strategies and priorities and effectively influence the work of project team members in line with those priorities. The Project Manager II is responsible for tracking deadlines, monitoring incoming requests, managing commitments, and utilizing project management tools to ensure project timelines are met, issues are escalated, identified opportunities for efficiencies and process/decisions are documented.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Maintains a thorough and detailed understanding of all department projects, purpose and status and ensures projects meet outlined processes. * Monitors, reports on, and makes visible project status, issues, resource requirements, dependencies, and project plans. * Keeps stakeholders and departmental leadership informed of project statuses, including, but not limited to, milestone achievements, toll gate progress, risks, and any issues that may adversely affect project schedules. * Documents project deliverables, outputs, and notes that capture why key project decisions were made and keeps project management records and systems accurate and up to date. * Understands departmental strategic priorities and influences the actions and work efforts of team members in line with those priorities. * Works closely with product team, content creators and other department stakeholders to align priorities and progress on all projects. * Manages traffic of incoming new requests - validates that appropriate requirements are included. * Produces timely and accurate reports as directed. Regular weekly progress report of Project Tasks completed, priorities for upcoming week, dependencies. * Provides input to Project Management Office (PMO) manager to develop or refine project management procedures and processes for the purpose of improving efficiency. * Develops realistic project plans and schedules by analyzing... For full info follow application link.

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