Hybrid IT Project Manager 1

$118,560 - $118,560/Yr

Tekberry - Stanford, CA

posted 30 days ago

Full-time - Senior
Stanford, CA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The IT Project Manager 1 position at Tekberry involves leading and managing multiple technology projects for a prestigious university. This role requires a blend of project leadership and technical contribution, focusing on delivering solutions that enhance research, teaching, and administrative functions. The project manager will work within a multidisciplinary team, ensuring stakeholder engagement and effective project execution across various domains such as cloud services, data analytics, and information security.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Create project charter defining/shaping the project's scope, goals/objectives, solution approach, system integration and impact to other systems, project team organization, roles/responsibilities, risks and assumptions, project financials.
  • Direct development of an action plan, and estimate requirements for resources, including management, labor, materials, and time required to complete projects.
  • Create and implement project plans and work breakdown structures aligned with business and technical plans and directions; revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
  • Manage stakeholder engagement that may be affected by changes to business processes, policies, and procedures related to the project implementation.
  • 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.
  • Create, manage, and monitor the estimated project budget.
  • Prepare and submit project documentation such as client proposals, progress reports, or other contractual requirements.
  • Evaluate and assess metrics and project effectiveness, assess and proactively monitor and control risks, progress and trends impacting successful project delivery.
  • Perform project management duties including: document and process change requests; monitor project scope, schedule, and budget, and report deviations and concerns to the project sponsors; Identify and manage project risks and issues, and develop strategies to mitigate them; perform and lead RFP/RFIs, vendor evaluation and selection; review and reconcile invoices; coordinate project closeout details.
  • Adapt to tools, methodologies, and practices used by the UIT PMO.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field and 8-10 years of related experience in management of projects with extensive size/complexity and moderate performance risk.
  • Proven track record of motivating a diverse team, partnering effectively with sponsors and decision-makers, and identifying and efficiently managing project issues and risks.
  • Highly effective written and oral communication skills to address a wide variety of audiences.
  • Ability to productively assemble, engage, and lead cross-functional 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.

Nice-to-haves

  • Proven experience with Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid project management methodologies.
  • Knowledge of project management tools and software development lifecycle (SDLC).
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to details.
  • Proven experience in developing and maintaining complex and integrated project plans with proper work breakdown structure (WBS).
  • Proven experience in people, change, risk, and conflict management.
  • Proven ability to build relationships and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve results in a consensus driven environment.
  • Ability to lead and direct a team of internal and external technical and business staff, and align technical needs with business goals.
  • Solid leadership, negotiation, persuasion, and facilitation skills.
  • Ability to navigate stressful situations and make/negotiate decisions on complex problems.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
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