Transformation Project Manager II

Western Governors University; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 75,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Tuition discount

Paid time off

Job summary

Western Governors University in Salt Lake City is seeking a Project Manager II to oversee the execution and process of assigned projects. You will develop project plans with multiple teams, monitor risks, and keep stakeholders informed on milestones and budgets.

The role emphasizes transforming business processes, training materials, and dashboards while ensuring standards and timelines. Excellent leadership and Agile experience are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Three (3) years of experience as the assigned project manager with responsibility for project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Experience applying change management methodologies and practices.
• Agile working environment experience

Responsibilities

• Maintains a thorough and detailed understanding of all department projects, purpose and status and ensures projects meet outlined processes.
• Monitors, reports on, and makes visible project status, issues, resource requirements, dependencies, and project plans.
• Keeps stakeholders and departmental leadership informed of project statuses, including milestone achievements, toll gate progress, risks, and any issues that may adversely affect project schedules.
• Documents project deliverables, outputs, and notes that capture why key project decisions were made and keeps project management records and systems accurate and up to date.
• Understands departmental strategic priorities and influences the actions and work efforts of team members in line with those priorities.
• Works closely with product team, content creators and other department stakeholders to align priorities and progress on all projects.
• Manages traffic of incoming new requests - validates that appropriate requirements are included.
• Produces timely and accurate reports as directed. Regular weekly progress report of Project Tasks completed, priorities for upcoming week, dependencies.
• Provides input to develop or refine project management procedures and processes for the purpose of improving efficiency.
• Develops realistic project plans and schedules by analyzing organizational process assets, enterprise environmental factors, task dependencies, resource requirements, work breakdown, and departmental strategy and priorities.
• Ensures projects meet organizational standards and are managed in accordance with applicable policies, processes, and procedures.
• Monitors change management strategies and outcomes of strategies.
• Conducts retrospective work on closed/ completed projects to document lessons learned, and prepares retrospective documentation.
• May conduct data analysis, research course and program level information as requested during the analysis phases of other projects.
• Track project costs in order to meet budget.
• Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

communication

change management

project execution

integrity

leadership

team player

influence

problem solving

planning

PM tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PM software

Job description

Western Governors University in Salt Lake City is seeking a Project Manager II to oversee the execution and process of assigned projects. You will develop project plans with multiple teams, monitor risks, and keep stakeholders informed on milestones and budgets.

The role emphasizes transforming business processes, training materials, and dashboards while ensuring standards and timelines. Excellent leadership and Agile experience are expected.