Strategic IT Project Manager — ERP & Data Integrations

St. Charles Community College; Lake Saint Louis (MO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

St Charles Community College is seeking an IT Project Manager to plan and lead complex technology projects that align with the institution's academic, administrative, and strategic goals. The role oversees ERP migrations, system implementations, data integrations, and related changes across IT and college departments, ensuring effective communication and vendor coordination.

The position requires coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, managing scope, budgets, risks, and timelines, and supporting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, project management, or a related field.
• Minimum of five years of experience managing complex information technology projects.
• Preferred: Master's degree and PMP/PMI-ACP certifications.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage, and deliver complex IT projects from initiation through implementation and post-launch evaluation.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities.
• Lead enterprise system initiatives, including ERP migrations, upgrades, implementations, and related integrations.
• Coordinate cross-functional project teams that may include IT staff, faculty, administrators, institutional departments, vendors, and consultants.
• Facilitate requirements gathering and translate institutional needs into clear technical and functional project requirements.
• Manage project scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, issues, change requests and resolutions.
• Monitor project progress and provide regular status updates to project sponsors, executive leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate data migration, system configuration, testing, validation, and implementation activities.
• Oversee integrations between enterprise applications, third-party platforms, and institutional data systems.
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, deliverables, timelines, and project-related performance expectations.
• Support change management efforts, including stakeholder engagement, communication, training, documentation, and user adoption.
• Prioritize projects in alignment with institutional strategic goals.
• Ensure projects comply with institutional policies, data governance standards, cybersecurity requirements, accessibility expectations, and applicable regulations.
• Maintain accurate and complete project documentation, including decisions, requirements, meeting records, testing results, and implementation plans.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, steering committee updates, and decision-making processes.
• Coordinate project resources and assist with resolving competing priorities, barriers, and resource constraints.
• Evaluate project outcomes, document lessons learned and recommend improvements to project management practices.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of institutional IT project management standards, templates, and processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of the institution's technology and strategic priorities.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Time management

ERP migrations

Data conversions

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, project management, or related field

Job description

St Charles Community College is seeking an IT Project Manager to plan and lead complex technology projects that align with the institution's academic, administrative, and strategic goals. The role oversees ERP migrations, system implementations, data integrations, and related changes across IT and college departments, ensuring effective communication and vendor coordination.

The position requires coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, managing scope, budgets, risks, and timelines, and supporting