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Project Manager #6312
This person will provide overall management of critical information technology projects in our packaged technologies disciplines. Core responsibilities include project initiation, planning, control, execution, and communication activities pertaining to technology and business solutions. The Project Manager ensures that goals are accomplished within time and budget constraints, in line with business objectives, and within quality and integrity parameters.
Responsibilities:
- Include But Are Not Limited To:
- Working with business sponsor and stakeholders to write and review project proposals to determine project goals, scope, time, budget, procedures for accomplishing project, and staffing requirements.
- Developing and maintaining project plans specifying goals, strategy, and staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, and contingency plans.
- Ensuring solution design and delivery fits with agreed upon guidelines including functional, technical, performance, security, scalability, process, and total cost of ownership.
- Managing the day-to-day details of the project including the plan, schedule, resources, task assignments, scope, budget and risks. Track progress and monitor all development activities to ascertain and control progress.
- Leading the effort in creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs.
- Reporting schedule, budget, and delivery details to business and IT management. Continuously advise management of interim plans, potential issues, mitigating strategies, and implications of requested scope or resource changes.
- Facilitating project meetings. Brief the project team on status reporting, problem resolution, feedback, and input from the team on project planning and execution.
- Maintaining proper documentation including the original plan, any working papers, status reports, meeting minutes, issue logs and any other documentation related to the management and administration of the project.
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of our internal project management methodologies.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of overall business / IT experience; candidates must have direct IT or development experience with advanced technical expertise.
- Minimum of 3 years of direct technical project management experience, preferably at a very fast-paced internet / .com type of environment.
- In-depth experience and knowledge in the area of integrating web application and back-end systems preferred.
- Understanding of university courseroom and content management technologies desired.
- Client server object oriented development experience.
- Experience in a university Information Technology setting or online training Information Technology organization strongly preferred.
- High level of business and organizational aptitude.
- Strong presence and interpersonal skills; able to manage indirectly.
- Excellent ability to organize information and manage projects to time and budget goals.
- Experience in formal project delivery methodologies; PMI certification a plus.
- Expert ability to use Microsoft Project to track and manage tasks, resources and project costs.
- Bachelors degree required, preferable in computer science or related field; Masters degree desired.
This position is based in Capella's corporate headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota and relocation assistance is not provided.
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