Project Manager 1

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is seeking a project manager for the broadcast and video division within the Publishing Services department. The role oversees low- to mid-complexity projects through initiation to closure, partnering with sponsoring departments to deliver end-to-end solutions.

You will coordinate resources, manage scope, schedule, and budget, and ensure adherence to Church processes while fostering trust and cross-team collaboration to deliver timely, high-quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 3 years of work experience in project management or coordination.
• Experience managing scope, schedule, and budget for low- to mid-complexity projects.
• Proficiency with a project management system like WorkFront.
• Ability to communicate with cross-functional team members.

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder management: understand, coordinate, and manage expectations.
• Integration management: plan, direct, monitor, and close small to mid-complexity projects.
• Scope management: ensure project scope includes required work.
• Time management: ensure timely completion of projects.
• Cost management: keep projects within approved budgets.
• Quality management: ensure project meets needs.
• Human resource management: optimize use of project team.
• Communications management: ensure timely and appropriate project information flow.
• Risk management: identify, analyze, and respond to risk.
• Procurement management: acquire necessary goods and services.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

WorkFront

Job description

Job Description

This project management position is assigned to the broadcast and video division within the Publishing Services department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The position is responsible for managing low- to mid-complexity broadcast and video projects requested by sponsoring departments across the organization through the full project life cycle (initiation, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing).

• Partner to find and create solutions that meet the divinely appointed responsibilities of the Church.
• Foster an environment of trust and unity.
• Build upon each other's strengths and ideas to create effective products.
• Deliver effective and timely communication.

Principles Of Operation

• Partner to find and create solutions that meet the divinely appointed responsibilities of the Church.
• Foster an environment of trust and unity.
• Build upon each other's strengths and ideas to create effective products.
• Deliver effective and timely communication.

Purpose

• Clearly understand and communicate project objectives and goals.
• Organize the needed resources to meet project requirements.
• Owns project-level scope, schedule, and budget.
• Ensure projects adhere to Church process and policy equivalent to the sphere of work.
• Specializes in supporting broadcast and video project requests.
• Coordinates with other production teams across the department to facilitate deliverable handoffs and ensure end-to-end project support.

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management: Understands, coordinates, and manages client and resource team expectations.
• Integration Management: Plans, directs, manages, monitors, controls, and closes projects of small to medium complexity.
• Scope Management: Uses standard processes to ensure projects/programs include all and only the work required to complete the project successfully.
• Time Management: Uses standard processes to ensure the timely completion of projects.
• Cost Management: Uses standard processes to ensure projects are completed within the approved budget.
• Quality Management: Uses standard processes to ensure the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
• Human Resource Management: Uses personal skills and standard processes to make the most effective use of the project team.
• Communications Management: Uses standard processes to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. Provides the critical links among people, ideas, and information that are necessary for success.
• Risk Management: Uses standard process to identify, analyze, and respond to project risk.
• Procurement Management: Uses standard processes to acquire goods and services from providers.

Required

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
• Minimum 3 years of work experience in a related field (preferably project management or project coordination).
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget of projects that are typically of low- to mid-complexity, often requiring language production across a small set of commonly used languages.
• Proficiency in a project management system like WorkFront.
• Manage and communicate with cross-functional team members.

Preferred

• Actively pursuing PMP certification or other project management certification recognized in specific industries.

About Us

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.