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LINQM is looking for a Technical/Functional Project Manager.
This contractor position reports to the UIT Project Management Office (UIT PMO) working with a group of technical project managers assembled into multidisciplinary teams to complete a broad range of critical Universitywide technology projects. The project manager is responsible for managing large and complex technical projects leveraging project management best practices to drive continuous improvement and ensure consistent highquality outcomes. The project manager is expected to weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders act with the highest professionalism and exercise independent judgment and decisionmaking.
Core Duties*
Project Management (60%)
Perform the full range of project management cycle: initiating planning executing monitoring and controlling and closing. Independently lead and direct projects requiring high levels of functional integration and involving multiple disciplines to be managed.
Direct development of an action plan and estimate requirements for resources including management labor materials and time required to complete projects.
Facilitate discussions and negotiations to drive recommendation and consensus.
Develop and help execute comprehensive change management strategy and communication plan relative to project scope and stakeholders; orchestrate and lead change management methodologies underlying project success.
Responsibilities include but not limited to: charter origination; scope identification and shaping scope definition; manage stakeholders constituents and disciplines across Stanford and beyond including local cities/counties; riskmanage control and report on risk associated with more complicated projects affecting division or program as it relates to their project portfolio; project complexity involves synthesizing complex technical data and driving decision.
Adapt to tools methodologies and practices used by the UIT PMO.
PMO Process Methodology and Tools (40%)
Administer the UIT PMO project intake process and procedures including coordinating project qualifications and demand management creating resource plans and evaluating resource constraints.
Assist with PPM/PMO process improvement initiatives as defined in the PMO roadmap.
* Other duties may also be assigned
Qualification:
Education and Experience
Bachelors degree in a related field and five years of related experience in management of projects with extensive size/complexity and moderate performance risk including project planning scheduling tracking and budgeting or combination of education and relevant experience.
Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities
Highly effective written and oral communication skills to address a wide variety of audiences.
Ability to productively assemble engage and lead crossfunctional teams.
Demonstrated project management ability to employ integration scope time management cost quality human resources communications risk and procurement components.
Ability to balance customer expectations with project reality.
Demonstrated resilience diplomacy influence relationship building and problem solving skills in a variety of situations.
Keen grasp of interpersonal and impact awareness.
Depth of knowledge in technical discipline/domain needed to deliver projects.
Desired Knowledge Skills and Abilities
Proven experience with Agile Waterfall and Hybrid project management methodologies strongly desired.
Knowledge of project management tools and software development lifecycle (SDLC) strongly desired.
Strong analytical skills and attention to details.
Proven experience in developing and maintaining complex and integrated project plans with proper work breakdown structure (WBS) strongly desired.
Proven experience in people change risk and conflict management strongly desired.
Proven ability to build relationships and motivate crossfunctional teams to achieve results in a consensus driven environment strongly desired.
Ability to lead and direct a team of internal and external technical and business staff and align technical needs with business goals strongly desired.
Solid leadership negotiation persuasion and facilitation skills strongly desired.
Ability to navigate stressful situations and make/negotiate decisions on complex problems strongly desired.
Solid experience with MS Office tools (Word Excel Project PowerPoint Visio) Smartsheet ServiceNow Project Portfolio Manager (PPM) Zoom Slack and Jabber are strongly desired.
Experience with Oracle EBusiness Suite desired.
Experience with PeopleSoft Student and HR Administration desired.
Understanding of Telecom service delivery (e.g. paging TDM VoIP PBX Call Manager) and Telecom vendors such as Cisco Nortel is a plus.
Experience with managing IT technical infrastructure application and system integrations
Knowledge of quality assurance and testing practices desired.
Knowledge of data integration across different technical platforms desired.
Understanding of Web application architecture and the technology tiers that support them system architectures application integration and object oriented languages desired.
Certifications and Licenses
Project Management Professional (PMP) certified completion of a Project Management Certificate program or certification in process.
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) completion or certification in process is desired.
ITIL Certification desired
Full Time