Sr. Project Manager, IT - Central

University of Miami; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Miami is seeking a Senior Project Manager, IT - Central to lead and direct high-priority projects, coordinating resources and schedules to ensure timely completion. This role interfaces with customers, reviews deliverables, and trains personnel within the organization.

Responsibilities include guiding project teams, monitoring performance, and implementing risk mitigation. The position emphasizes compliance with university policies while driving project success in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required.
• Learning Agility: ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Directs high-priority IT projects and manages life cycles from initiation to closure.
• Interfaces with customers, sets expectations, and informs stakeholders on project status.
• Monitors staff performance and ensures work is completed on schedule and to objectives.
• Coordinates departments to align with project charters and requirements.
• Assesses risks, plans contingencies, and manages changes to scope, schedule, and costs.

Skills

Learning Agility

Teamwork

Technical Proficiency

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Job description

CORE JOB SUMMARY

The Sr. Project Manager, IT - Central leads and directs high-priority projects, which often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration. Additionally, the incumbent oversees all aspects of projects over their entire life. Further, this employee assembles project teams, assigns individual responsibilities, identifies resources needed, and develops a schedule to ensure timely completion. In addition, the Senior Project Manager, IT interfaces with all parties affected by projects, ensures adherence to quality standards, and reviews project deliverables. Moreover, an employee in this position performs administrative and management duties related to appropriate tracking of Information Technology projects and trains personnel within the organization.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

• Manages projects with support staff, provides them with a clear understanding of the department’s mission, and directs them in achieving this mission.
• Monitors the performance of the support technicians for quality assurance and ensures that assignments are accomplished as scheduled and according to specified objectives.
• Coordinates the efforts of the functional departments to ensure that the projects are conducted in accordance with the requirements of the project charters.
• Interfaces with customers on schedules, meetings, and problems.
• Keeps customers informed on the project status.
• Anticipates potential schedule or priority delays and initiates plans for alternative actions.
• Creates strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
• Manages changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs, using appropriate verification techniques, to keep the project plan accurate and updated.
• Ensures a common understanding of project goals by setting expectations in accordance with project plans.
• Records detailed customer requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders to establish project deliverables.
• Pursues ways to improve operations and provides management with productivity reports.
• Establishes priorities which meet the departmental goals and objectives and identifies areas of improvement.
• Implements an action plan or initiative to achieve goals and objectives.
• Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with University policies and procedures. Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on University policy and procedures.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required Certification and Licensing: Refer to department description for applicable certification requirements

• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

This full-time position is hybrid in Miami, FL.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff

The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation.

The University of Miami ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings.

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019.

The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022. With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.