Technical Project Manager

Position Number: E00761

Salary for Announcement: The salary range for this position is $64,500-$86,050. The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training.

The above salary range represents University’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Employee Category: Professional staff

Department: Application Services

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Manager of ITS Project Management, the Technical Project Manager manages enterprise-scale projects within Information Technology Services.

As Technical Project Manager, you will manage multiple projects simultaneously, working with technical leads and campus peers to design project plans that support success and maximize customer satisfaction. Working closely with project leadership, you'll prepare dashboards and reports outlining project status, regularly delivering presentations to technical and non-technical campus audiences.

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Duties/Responsibilities:

Project Leadership

• You will lead a range of strategic and operational projects, ranging in scope from software implementations and application development projects to infrastructure and audiovisual system deployments. You’ll tailor your project management approach to match individual project goals and develop realistic project plans for the team to work against.

• You’ll embrace a strong service and leadership ethic in your work, supporting your peers, managing customer expectations and jumping in to solve a sticky challenge to keep the effort on track. Department leaders will look to you for budget projections, up to date timelines, and will trust you to flag risks early and often.

Process Design

• You’ll collaborate with your manager and the team to continually improve project management processes, ensuring a consistent PM approach across our technical teams. The team will collaborate with other departments to ensure that our approach aligns with their needs and expectations.

Communications

• You will share your work with customers and leadership, occasionally preparing presentations for internal and external groups. You’ll help design communications plans for your projects, working with other team members to ensure the word gets out about the fantastic work our project teams are doing.

Other Tasks as Assigned

Occasional off-hours, on-call, or weekend work may be required.

Infrequent domestic business travel may be required.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from accredited college or university.

• Previous project management training in waterfall or agile methodologies.

• 3+ years direct project management experience in an information technology environment.

• Experience managing multiple parallel small- or medium-sized projects to completion.

Important Note: Successful applicants will ensure their resumes clearly demonstrate that their work experience describes how they meet all required qualifications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from accredited college or university in Project Management, Business Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

• Experience in a higher education environment.

• Experience applying different project management methodologies and best practices based on project need.

• Experience collaboratively developing and validating project requirements.

• Experience independently leading small and medium projects through the full project management life cycle.

• Recognized industry certification such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Certified Practitioner or Certified Scrum Master.

• 5+ years technical project management experience

Posting Date: 06/21/2021

Closing Date:

Closing Instructions: Open Until Filled

Special Instructions to Applicant:

IMPORTANT: In order to be considered as an applicant you must apply via the online application system, www.msudenver.edu.

Copies of Transcripts will be required of all finalists.

To apply, visit https://apptrkr.com/2330911

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