IT Project Manager - United States - Remote

The IT Project Manager is responsible for project management processes and leveraging an integrated toolset to drive standardization, repeatable processes, and consistent behaviors across all projects. These processes include but are not limited to project initiation, change management, requirements gathering, weekly status report, user acceptance testing and project closure.  The IT Project Manager is responsible for building out Project Management Office components, both processes and artifact templates, over time.

This position works closely with the Director of Enterprise Application and project team members (including IT business partners, systems analysts, developers, network engineers, and other IT professionals) to update status reports, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure overall project timelines and deliverables are being met.

Position Overview:

• Work with Director of Enterprise Applications and CIO to:
• Develop a streamlined IT Portfolio Management process for the intake and prioritization of project initiatives, and work with executive team to prioritize initiatives and manage backlog, and
• Define a project execution methodology with a minimally viable set of project phases and deliverables within each phase.
• Review project business cases to ensure accurate costs, project estimates and internal labor efforts are identified. Ensure approval of business case and presents to governing body.
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.
• Develop project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring functional and technical feasibility.
• Work with project contributors to develop detailed estimates of effort and duration for identified project tasks.
• Develop detailed project plans that take resource allocation and task dependencies into account to ensure plans can accurately track progress.
• Quickly assess situations, identify gaps and present possible solutions.
• Identify, document and manage project risks and issues and implement effective …