Project Lead - IT Project Services (Temporary)

Role overview

Project delivery

• Delivers project technology components and manages IT scope, schedule, costs, resources, milestones, development, integration, infrastructure, and security.
• Manages unit testing and integration testing, prepares for user acceptance testing, and coordinates UAT with business project managers or leads.
• Serves as primary IT project coordinator, facilitating communication, analysis, decisions, and project execution.
• Transitions intake requests and checks project request forms, business cases, and charters for appropriate information.
• Coordinates Workfront project prioritization and scoring and applies college and IT PMO standards.
• Gathers business and external partner requirements; formalizes scope, goals, timelines, deliverables, and technical design specifications.
• Advises on project approach and prepares system specifications, implementation strategies, testing procedures, and business transition and sustainment plans.
• Estimates costs, identifies resources, sets schedules and critical paths, coordinates tasks and testing, tracks milestones, and reports project status through dashboards.
• Schedules stakeholder meetings, delegates tasks to IT teams and vendors, and monitors vendor work to ensure deficiencies are corrected.
• Assesses impacts and integration requirements in the context of existing systems, security, and data privacy; recommends process or systems changes.
• Guides development staff and technical consultants and maintains knowledge of industry developments through continuing professional learning.

Candidate strengths

• The description highlights analytical thinking, critical assessment of process flows, collaboration, interpersonal skills, research, and analysis.
• The role calls for organization, planning, prioritization, and tracking multiple projects and information streams.

Requirements

• Analytical and critical thinking skills, including the ability to assess process flows and system design.
• Collaborative interpersonal skills and ability to work with others toward shared goals.
• Research and analysis skills to measure, interpret, and present information effectively.
• Ability to organize and plan, integrate multiple information streams, prioritize, and track multiple projects in a demanding workload.