Proj Mgr - FSMIT

Department: MED-Central IT
Salary/Grade: ITS/80

Job Summary:

Oversees multiple smaller projects or one larger project. Identifies potential project team, works with technical lead to assign individual responsibilities, identifies appropriate resources needed, develops schedule to ensure timely completion of project, and monitors project progress against schedule. May communicate with a Senior Project Manager, Functional Area Manager, Program Manager, project stakeholders or technical leads regarding status of specific projects.

This specific role will be on the project management team with Feinberg IT, the centralized IT support team for the Feinberg School of Medicine. This role will manage projects for the overall IT team and also for specific enterprise applications that our team develops.

Specific Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning

• Coordinate and track the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/controlling and closing of Informatics, Information Technology (IT) and related virtual and physical infrastructure projects in support of organizational area's strategic objectives and ongoing operations.
• Interacts with project leadership to determine and document project objectives, scope, functional requirements, metrics, key performance indicators and stakeholders.
• Collaborates with technical lead to determine resource requirements, budget, and deliverables.

Administration

• Coordinates projects for selected clients; administers and maintains project management tools, assists in planning, estimating and scheduling project work and supports monitoring and reporting of project progress.
• Tracks initiation and execution of software development or implementation and upgrade of several concurrent projects.
• Collaborates with technical lead to determine project timelines and scope, in cooperation with senior staff.
• Writes reports and proposals.
• Communicates project status, decisions, updates, revisions and changes to all stakeholders facilitating decision-making and project progress.
• Administers and maintains organizational area's project management tool, assists in planning, estimating and scheduling project work and supports monitoring and reporting of project progress.

Development

• Performs research for future potential IT services and applications; investigates and compares alternative applications and vendors.
• Develops and maintains organizational area's document repository.

Performance

• Collaborates with the functional teams to construct, update and track multiple project schedules and facilitates issue identification and resolution.

Supervises

• Provides work direction for project team members, subordinates, contractors, vendors, students, etc.
• Communicates with technical leads regarding performance of staff assigned to projects.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications: (Education, experience, and any other certifications or clearances)

• Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree; OR appropriate combination of education and experience.
• 2 years coordinating Information Technology (IT) and related virtual and physical infrastructure projects or other relevant experience required.
• PMP
• HIPAA
• IRB
• critical thinking
• problem solving
• agile environment
• Code documentation
• collaboration and teamwork
• facilitate collaboration
• functional documentation
• iterative & incremental development
• workflow development & documentation
• write proposals and project charters

Target hiring range for this position will be between $89,129-$125,338 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

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