Strategic IT Project Leader

aa080; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

School District of Philadelphia seeks a Senior Project Manager, Information Systems to lead large-scale IT initiatives, manage budgets, and coordinate multi-team efforts with vendors and schools. You will oversee scope, ROI analysis, and project lifecycle from inception to post-implementation support.

The role requires PMI/PMP knowledge, strong leadership, and the ability to communicate with executive stakeholders while driving timelines and deliverables across enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Six years of full-time, paid, professional experience in either operations, finance, education, or information technology with team lead or project management.
• Any equivalent combination of training and experience acceptable by the Office of Talent.

Responsibilities

• Develops strategies for appropriate scopes of work.
• Plans and manages timelines and monitors progress; provides progress updates to project leads.
• Directly supervises technical business analysts as required.
• Prepares reports related to project status and projections.
• Works with vendors/internal developers to implement software solutions.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Budget management

Vendor coordination

PMI / PMP knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Gitea

Excel

Word

Visio

SQL

Job description

School District of Philadelphia seeks a Senior Project Manager, Information Systems to lead large-scale IT initiatives, manage budgets, and coordinate multi-team efforts with vendors and schools. You will oversee scope, ROI analysis, and project lifecycle from inception to post-implementation support.

The role requires PMI/PMP knowledge, strong leadership, and the ability to communicate with executive stakeholders while driving timelines and deliverables across enterprise systems.