Hybrid IT Project Manager 1

$118,560 - $118,560/Yr

Tekberry - Stanford, CA

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