Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The School District of Philadelphia is committed to transforming educational opportunities for students across the city. The Senior Project Manager will oversee large-scale, complex enterprise-wide information technology projects, including scope development, financial analysis, implementation, staffing, vendor coordination, and budget oversight. The role also facilitates collaboration among internal and external stakeholders and supports project evaluation, training, outreach, and customer relationship management.
Responsibilities
- Develops strategies for appropriate scopes of work
- Plans and manages timelines, and monitors progress of various projects and work streams; provides progress updates to project leads
- Works with selected teams on specific aspects of meeting project goals in a timely manner
- Prepares reports related to project status and projections
- Directly supervises technical business analysts as required
- Participates in confidential and/or sensitive matters and/or projects at every level of the enterprise
- Works with vendors/internal developers to implement software solutions
- Evaluates and recommends technology and software solutions that will satisfy the needs of schools and offices
Skills
- Completion of a bachelor's degree program from an accredited college or university
- Six years of full-time, paid, professional, experience in either operations, finance, education, or information technology which has included serving as a team lead or project manager
- Any equivalent combination of training and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Talent
- Demonstrated knowledge of:
- ERP systems – technical configuration of finance and human capital modules
- Google products
- Gitea, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Visio, or other productivity tools
- Basic understanding and using SQL
- Demonstrated ability to:
- Understand and apply basic industry recognized project management principles and processes as defined by PMI, PMP certifications
- Apply best practice standards to a product's design, test, and production phases
- Review and comprehend technical documentation
- Manage large or complex projects and/or budgets
- Lead and implement strategic initiatives under aggressive deadlines
- Function as an entrepreneurial self-starter, a team leader, a facilitator, and as a member of a team
- Work on multiple projects simultaneously, as evidenced by an ability to balance and prioritize multiple competing priorities
- Formulate solutions to complex problems and develop strategies to address the identified issues based on quantitative and/or qualitative evidence
- Build and maintain strong, effective working relationships across all levels of an organization
- Coordinate cross-functional teams
- Adapt to different situations, particularly when new information is provided
- Represent a superior at meetings and conferences
- Present ideas effectively, both orally and in writing
- Strong leadership skills with conflict resolution
- Oracle ERP Cloud is preferred
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