Technical Project Manager - Pmo

Schedule: Hybrid (2x a week in office)

Technical Project Manager- Contractor Position
This contractor position reports to the Project Management Office, working with a group of Technical Project Managers assembled into multidisciplinary teams to complete a broad range of critical wide technology projects, including Discovery and Implementation projects for enterprise applications and system integrations across domain areas like collaboration or content management, cloud services, data analytics and reporting, research computing, or information security or privacy. The Project Manager is responsible for managing large and complex Technical Projects leveraging project management best practices to drive continuous improvement and ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes. The Project Manager is expected to weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders, act with the highest professionalism, and exercise independent judgment and decision-making.

Core Duties:

Project Management (90%)
Perform the full range of project management cycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Independently lead and direct projects requiring high levels of functional integration and involving multiple disciplines to be managed.
Direct development of an action plan, and estimate requirements for resources, including management, labor, materials, and time required to complete projects.
Facilitate discussions and negotiations to drive recommendation and consensus.
Develop and help execute comprehensive change management strategy and communication plan relative to project scope and stakeholders; orchestrate and lead change management methodologies underlying project success.
Responsibilities include but not limited to: charter origination; scope identification and shaping scope definition; manage stakeholders, constituents and disciplines across Stanford and beyond, including local cities/counties; risk-manage, control and report on risk associated with more complicated projects, affecting division or program as it relates to their project portfolio; project complexity involves synthesizing complex technical data and driving decision.
Adapt to tools, methodologies, and practices used by the IT PMO.

PMO Process, Methodology and Tools (10%)
Assist with administering the IT PMO project intake process and procedures including coordinating project qualifications and demand management, creating resource plans, and evaluating resource constraints.
Assist with PPM/PMO process improvement initiatives as defined in the PMO roadmap.
* Other duties may also be assigned

Qualification:

Bachelor's degree in a related field and five years of related experience in management of projects with extensive size/complexity and moderate performance risk, including project planning, scheduling, tracking, and budgeting, or combination of education and relevant experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Highly effective written and oral communication skills to address a wide variety of audiences.
Ability to productively assemble, engage, and lead cross-functional teams.
Demonstrated project management ability to employ integration, scope time management, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement components.
Ability to balance customer expectations with project reality.
Demonstrated resilience, diplomacy, influence, relationship building, and problem solving skills in a variety of situations.
Keen grasp of interpersonal and impact awareness.
Depth of knowledge in technical discipline/domain needed to deliver projects.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Solid experience with Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides), MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio), Smartsheet, ServiceNow Project Portfolio
• Manager (PPM), Zoom, and Slack are strongly desired.
• Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite desired.
• Experience with PeopleSoft Student and HR Administration desired.

Certifications and Licenses:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certified completion of a Project Management Certificate program, or certification in process
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) completion or certification in process is desired.
• ITIL Certification desired

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $70.00 - $75.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Application Question(s):

• Experience with PeopleSoft Student and HR Administration?

Experience:

• Technical Project Manager: 5 years (Required)
• Implementation projects for enterprise application: 5 years (Required)
• Implementation projects for system integrations: 5 years (Required)
• content management: 5 years (Required)
• cloud services: 5 years (Required)
• information security or privacy: 5 years (Required)
• IT PMO project: 5 years (Required)
• Smartsheet: 5 years (Required)
• ServiceNow Project Portfolio Manager (PPM): 5 years (Required)
• Oracle E-Business Suite: 5 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) (Required)
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM (Required)
• ITIL Certification (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Stanford, CA 94305 (Required)

Work Location: In person