Description We are offering a permanent employment opportunity for an IT Project Manager - Higher Ed in Woodbridge, New Jersey. This role revolves around the crucial task of developing and implementing project management frameworks, procedures, and templates, as well as managing the Project Management Life Cycle from start to finish in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement project management office frameworks, processes, and templates.

• Ensure that projects are completed on time and meet business and system requirements.

• Provide support for project plan development and monitor timelines, budgets, and scope.

• Create project budgets, estimate resources needed, and negotiate with resource managers to ensure appropriate resource allocation.

• Apply PM tools and methodologies to ensure project milestones are achieved and scope is maintained.

• Conduct project completion reviews, resource and vendor assessments, and create recommendation reports.

• Observe project team dynamics to ensure effective team member synergies and to resolve and escalate issues.

• Perform assessments throughout projects to identify risks and potential impact and to develop response strategies.

• Participate in the evaluation, selection, maintenance, and continuous enhancements of project management methodology, tools, and templates.

• Develop standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.

• Report on the status of the overall project, identify and communicate resource conflicts.

• Solicit regular feedback from stakeholders and project sponsors to continually improve project performance. Requirements

Experience

• 7+ years of hands-on IT project management experience.

• Experience in successfully running infrastructure, software development and product implementation projects is required.

• Sufficient technical background to: Understand the technologies and technical issues involved with IT projects; Ability to manage project scope and resources; Anticipate, identify and manage resolutions of critical obstacles.

• Proficiency with project management/scheduling software, Microsoft Office Suite.

• Depth of knowledge in at least one technical discipline/domain needed to deliver projects.

• Experience in both developed and underdeveloped PMO governance structures with plenty of lessons of what to do and not do.

• Proven experience in organizational change management, risk mitigation, and conflict management.

• Experience in roles as a Program Manager, Project Manager, and/or Business Analyst.

• Experience in the development and management of project budgeting, tracking and a solid understanding of OpEx versus CapEx.

• Knowledge of quality assurance and testing.

• Knowledge of data integration across different technical platforms.

• Knowledge of enterprise services like Microsoft 365, ERPs, SAAS, IAAS, and PAAS models.

• Experience with higher education policies and systems.

• Capabilities Required

• People – you are working to coordinate resources and priorities across people who do not work for you, but you need to do work for you.

• Communicator – you are an expert in comms - everyone knows what is going on and what they need to do.

• Project Governance – you know what great project governance frameworks look like and how to set them up.

• Project Delivery – you get projects delivered after learnings from countless projects – good and bad.

• Structured Chaos – you can take disparate ideas, needs, requirements and structure them into a clear plan.

• Tools – You have firsthand experience with at least one PPM platform as well as task management solutions like Smartsheet, Wrike, Asana.

  Technology Doesn't Change the World, People Do.®

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