Project Manager I

Summary: The Project Manager (Level 1) in the IT Department will assist in planning, executing, and closing projects under the guidance of the Manager, PMO. This role involves coordinating project activities, tracking progress, and ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational skills, a proactive attitude, and a willingness to learn.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in the development of project plans, including defining scope, objectives, and timelines.

• Coordinate project activities and resources to ensure successful project execution

• Monitor project progress, track milestones, and update project schedules

• Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and team members

• Assist in preparing project documentation, including project charters, status reports, and meeting minutes

• Conduct research and gather information to support project planning and decision-making

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project tasks are completed efficiently

• Identify and escalate potential project risks and issues to senior project managers

• Support the implementation of project management best practices and methodologies

• Participate in project meetings and provide administrative support as needed

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position has no supervisory responsibility.

Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of project management principles and methodologies

• Strong organizational and time management skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment

• Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Willingness to learn and take on new challenges.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in project management, Business Administration, or a related field

• Experience in project management or related fields

• Familiarity with project management software and tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Monday, Confluence, Jira)

• Knowledge of Agile or Waterfall project management methodologies

Language Ability:

Must have good reading, writing, and speaking skills to effectively communicate with managers, and co-workers.

Math Ability:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to develop and interpret charts.

Reasoning Ability:

Perform under pressure and/or opposition at times relying on your own independent judgment and knowledge to decide the best directions and solutions. While representing the company, the marketing coordinator will be required to determine answers to questions and situations which may be socially or politically volatile. Execution and communication of such solutions are often in the public eye.

Computer Skills:

Demonstrate advanced skills with Microsoft Office Suite including, but not limited to Word, PPT, Excel, and Project.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the environment is moderate.

Personal Attributes:

• Demonstrated skills to communicate difficult technical concepts clearly to a variety of individuals of varying technical expertise and understanding

• Demonstrate effective decision-making skills, even under pressure and while lacking all the desired information detail

• Good written and verbal communication skills to deal effectively with the business unit staff, as well as IT management and staff

• Must be a disciplined process-oriented individual able to lead implementation of best practice controls and processes

• Possess good problem-solving skills for a complex network topology, being able to escalate to appropriate groups while gathering pertinent information when addressing issues beyond personal scope to assist in identifying issues, root causes and solutions

• Must have proven ability to work successfully in a high volume, technically demanding job, providing excellent customer service while utilizing strong judgment

• Must be flexible and willing to travel to other locations

• Must be proactive in identifying and correcting infrastructure deficiencies.

• Must be a team player, excellent collaborator and leader

• Must be mature, poised, and confident in the face of adversity

• Must be highly organized and capable of providing technical leadership while requiring minimal day-to-day guidance

Physical Demands:

• The following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear

• The employee is occasionally required to lift to 50 pounds

• The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

• The work involves considerable use of computer equipment and requires ability to use computer keyboard, mouse and screen effectively

• Employee may be required to be on call to respond to issues or problems which occur in the normal course of business, including early hours (before 0600) and late hours (post 1800) in the day