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PROJECT MANAGER, IT PMO

Employer
Denver Public Schools
Location
Denver, CO, US
Salary
Competitive
IMPACT OFFICE

Traditional 235 work days

FTE: 1.0

Salary Range: $76,841 - 96,052

Essential Functions and Objectives:

Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting, and stability of project oriented work efforts. Establishes and implements project management processes and adheres to DPS's and Program Management Office's (PMO) methodology for the district (Business and IT communities) to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, comply with high quality standards, and meet customer expectations.

- Assume primary responsibility for project leadership and for facilitating completion and communication on all projects deliverables, including project charters, phase driven schedules, project timelines and milestones, status reporting, resource plans, budgets, etc.

- Develop and applies objective based change management strategies and communications plans to ensure stakeholders and team members are informed, bought-in, and support expected project outcomes.

- Provides regular, professional, and appropriate communications to project team members, department heads, business sponsors, and senior leadership. Proactively identify, track and resolve issues, risks and dependencies associated with projects managed, and communicate risks and issues to the project team and senior leadership. Identify and implement issue resolutions. Lead risk management identification and mitigation plans.

- Possess and demonstrate extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management methodologies and tools, resource management practices, facilitation skills, and change management techniques.

- Responsible for planning and managing key aspects of development and implementation of a holistic technology solution, including requirements definition, process re-engineering and design, vendor selection and vendor management, system design, testing, deployment. Utilize Software Development Life Cycle methodologies to ensure on time, on budget implementation of technology solutions that align with organizational needs and dependencies.

- Responsible for partnering with organizational leaders to assess strategic goals and alignment on projects, defining and designing operational solutions, defining comprehensive change management strategies, managing the implementation and integration with operational departments, and establishing metrics of long term project success .

- Plan and manage multi-million dollar technology and/or business and operational budgets, including purchase and implementation costs.

- Works under direction of PMO Executive Director or PMO Portfolio Manager. Responsible for the management of one or more medium to large-sized, moderately to highly complex projects.

Knowledge, Experience & Other Qualifications:

- Five (5) years' direct project management experience in work planning, estimating/budgeting, resource planning, risk assessment, expectation management, scope and issue management with complex business and IT projects.

- Experience working with a Project Management Office (PMO), using program and project processes and methodologies, and implementing processes and projects across multiple levels of the organization.

- Previous IT and/or business management consulting experience preferred.

- Ability to influence large, cross-functional teams without direct reporting responsibility.

- Ability to work with and enable decision making at various levels of management throughout the organization.

- Ability to translate customer needs into strategy, technology, and process solutions.

- Systems implementation project experience including requirements gathering, system vendor selection, functional and technical solution design, business process design and workflow, testing and user acceptance, deployment, and organizational change management and communications.

- Ability to multi-task and effectively manage several projects in parallel.

- Stakeholder/sponsor management.

- Attention to detail is essential.

- Experience successfully managing several transformative projects from conception through implementation.

- Understands, develops, and applies organizational change management strategies.

- Strong command of MS Office toolset (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project) and Google enterprise solutions.

- Experience with EPM (\u201centerprise project management\u201d) solutions a plus.

- Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills.

- A team player that has the ability to motivate the team and drive to project success.

- Interest in education.

Education Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree required.

About Denver Public Schools:

Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.

Under the leadership of Superintendent Susana Cordova and guided by the tenets of The Denver Plan, DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org.

Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

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