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Pay Range Minimum
Job Code:
 LL16
Hourly:
 $32.6
FLSA*:
 Exempt
Monthly:
 $5,650
Grade:
 333
Annually:
 $67,800

*This is an Exempt position. Employees in this position are paid a salary on a monthly basis and are not eligible to receive overtime pay.
JOB DESCRIPTION: **This is a central university office position.** Coordinates, plans, supports, and executes enterprise-wide IT projects. Provides support for project plan development and monitoring budgets and scope. Manages the Project Management Life Cycle from beginning to end and communicates frequently with stakeholders and project teams to ensure stakeholder and project team buy-in. Applies industry-accepted methodologies (i.e., Project Management Institute [PMI]) to ensure adherence to project management standards and requirements and to provide stakeholders with continual reports on project progress and performance. Supports project management subject matter experts in the Project Management Office (PMO) with developing solutions to issues and creating efficiencies. Meets with stakeholders to validate business cases and to gather facts for establishing and gaining agreement on project charters. Creates project charters and analyzes business cases to validate and clarify issues, justify use of project resources and to anticipate risks. Consults with project sponsors to clarify project directives, scopes, deliverables, and timelines and to analyze risk. Conducts bid sessions and/or vendor RFP efforts to select and manage suppliers and supplier payments. Interacts with Enterprise-wide senior management to represent UTS's interests, understand customer requirements, validates assumptions and to ensure adherence to UTS project methodology. Applies PM tools and methodologies to ensure project milestones are achieved and scope is maintained. Observes project team dynamics to ensure effective team member synergies and to resolve issues. Creates progressive project milestones for facilitating smaller-scale achievements and to motivate the project team. Utilizes PM tools to manage project timelines and accuracy, ensure project resource commitments are met, and to track activities and variances. Performs assessments throughout projects to identify risks and potential impact and to develop response strategies for managing and mitigating risk factors. Interacts with project customers to verify completion dates, review milestone expectations and manage UTS resource schedules. Closes project contracts to validate supplier statements of work (SOWs) and verify deliverables. Conducts project management research and studies trends and developments under the direction of the PMO Director to support PMO team members and industry colleagues. Performs related responsibilities as required.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: A bachelor's degree in a related field and two years of Project Management experience, OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. Obtain Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification within one year.

The above statements are intended to describe the work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of the personnel so classified.

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