Description:
Full-time contract/temporary position for one year.
No sponsorship available for this role.
Hybrid work schedule (at least 2 days per week onsite)
Main Work Location: Redwood City, CA campus
is one of the worlds premier academic and research institutions, devoting tremendous intellectual and physical resources toward the betterment of humanity. As a major Bay Area employer, seeks people committed to excellence and to improving our world. In turn, the university is committed to supporting its employees as they develop their careers and enrich their lives.
University IT (UIT), part of the Business Affairs organization at , is dedicated to delivering world-class service and technological solutions to advance research, teaching and learning, administration, and healthcare.
This IT Project Manager position reports to the UIT Project Management Office (UIT PMO), working with a group of technical project managers assembled into multidisciplinary teams to complete a broad range of critical University-wide technology projects, including Discovery and Implementation projects for enterprise applications and system integrations across domain areas like collaboration or content management, cloud services, data analytics and reporting, research computing, or information security or privacy. The project manager is responsible for managing multiple large and complex technical projects, leveraging project management best practices to drive continuous improvement and ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes. The project manager is expected to weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders, act with the highest professionalism, and exercise independent judgment and decision-making.
Desired experience includes a proven track record of motivating a diverse team, partnering effectively with sponsors and decision-makers, and identifying and efficiently managing project issues and risks, while successfully managing projects to timely delivery and within budgetary expectations. The position typically focused 80% on project leadership and 20% on technical contribution. The project manager is expected to manage multiple projects, such as vendor selection and implementation, SaaS projects, development, and IT infrastructure projects, and application upgrades simultaneously.
Other duties may also be assigned
Requirements:
Qualification:
Education and Experience
Bachelor\'s degree in a related field and eight to ten years of related experience in management of projects with extensive size/complexity and moderate performance risk, including project planning, scheduling, tracking, and budgeting, or a combination of education and relevant experience.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Highly effective written and oral communication skills to address a wide variety of audiences.
Ability to productively assemble, engage, and lead cross-functional teams.
Demonstrated project management ability to employ integration, scope time management, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement components.
Ability to balance customer expectations with project reality.
Demonstrated resilience, diplomacy, influence, relationship building, and problem solving skills in a variety of situations.
Keen grasp of interpersonal and impact awareness.
Depth of knowledge in technical discipline/domain needed to deliver projects.
Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Proven experience with Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid project management methodologies strongly desired.
Knowledge of project management tools and software development lifecycle (SDLC) strongly desired.
Strong analytical skills and attention to details.
Proven experience in developing and maintaining complex and integrated project plans with proper work breakdown structure (WBS) strongly desired.
Proven experience in people, change, risk, and conflict management is strongly desired.
Proven ability to build relationships and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve results in a consensus driven environment strongly desired.
Ability to lead and direct a team of internal and external technical and business staff, and align technical needs with business goals strongly desired.
Solid leadership, negotiation, persuasion, and facilitation skills strongly desired.
Ability to navigate stressful situations and make/negotiate decisions on complex problems strongly desired.
Solid experience with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio), Smartsheet, ServiceNow Project Portfolio Manager (PPM), Zoom, and Slack are strongly desired.
Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle HCM, PeopleSoft Student and HR Administration desired.
Experience with managing IT technical infrastructure, application and system integrations
Knowledge of quality assurance and testing practices desired.
Knowledge of data integration across different technical platforms desired.
Understanding of Web application architecture and the technology tiers that support them, system architectures, application integration, and object oriented languages desired.
Certifications and Licenses
Project Management Professional (PMP) certified is strongly desired.
Physical Requirements
Frequently sit, perform desk based computer tasks, and grasp lightly/fine manipulation and lift/carry /push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.
Occasionally stand/walk, write by hand.
Rarely use a telephone, kneel, crawl, climb ladders, twist/bend/stoop/squat, reach/work above shoulder, grasp forcefully.
Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.
Working Conditions
This is a hybrid position. Candidates are generally required to be on the campus two days a week or more based on the project and/or organization requirements
Travel locally and cross-university. May require to attend meetings on campuses, Healthcare Hospital and Childrens Hospital