Job Title: Project Manager
Job Location: Las Vegas, NV
JoB Duration: 12+ Months
Job Description:
- Project manager of at least two successful large-scale software systems implementations.
- 5 years of IT and business/industry work.
- 5 years of leadership responsibility managing midsize to large teams and influencing senior-level management.
- Direct work experience with public K-12 school, higher education, or educational entity data and systems.
- Project Management experience in a large K-12 public school district, higher education, or educational entity preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
Projects may include enterprise system implementations, network infrastructure upgrades, identity and access management, cybersecurity enhancements, and other major technology-related implementations. The Project Manager will be expected to:
- Develop project charters, schedules, budgets, and resource plans.
- Provide stakeholder communication plans and regular status updates.
- Facilitate meetings, track issues and risks, and ensure timely resolution.
- Coordinate between District departments, vendors, and external agencies as needed.
- Deliver final project evaluations and lessons learned reports.
Position Requirements
- Qualification in project management or equivalent.
- Possess strong theoretical and practical knowledge of and experience with project management, best practices and with a demonstrated successful track record.
- Direct work experience as a project manager over large software systems implementation.
- Direct work experience as a project manager over one or more large enterprise-wide software solutions, such as Oracle PeopleSoft and SAP.
- Proficient with project management techniques, tools and software.
- Ability to understand project details but manage from the overall project perspective.
- Proven experience in strategic planning and risk management.
- Proven experience in change management.
- Excellent management and team-building skills.
- Ability to analyze, understand and effectively communicate between business requirements and technical design and implementation.
- Knowledge of business application lifecycle management.
- Knowledge of system development life cycle management.
- Budget planning and management.
- Problem-solving, negotiation and decision-making skills to influence management, as well as internal and external partners.
- Ability to apply sound judgment, strong leadership and negotiating skills.
- Ability to manage significant responsibility within the context of shifting priorities.
- Ability to be flexible in a changing work environment.
Work well with others in an integrated team environment.