• Execute IT project management duties including tracking project progress, manage project conflicts, and maintain goal alignment.
• Facilitate proactive communications with project stakeholders and resource managers.
• Coordinate project personnel activities with department managers.
• Provide project status updates ranging from executive summaries to detailed reports to leadership.
• Develop intake process and draft project plans for proposed department IT initiatives, including defining priority, scope, milestones, metrics, deliverables, resource requirements, risk mitigation, contingency plans, and timelines.
• Create documentation and presentation materials as needed for project kick-offs.
• Contribute to department leadership strategic planning sessions.
• Participate in internal team discussions, meetings and work sessions with key operations personnel and leadership to create IT roadmap and identify potential future IT projects and initiatives.
• Perform project close out duties including creating postmortem analysis/documentation of successes and failures, lessons learned, and updates to project related policy and procedure as necessary.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Extensive knowledge in executing industry recognized IT project management techniques and methodologies, while using project management software and tools.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment.
• Creative problem-solving ability.
• Skill in managing and prioritizing multiple high-level objectives in a dynamic, fast paced environment.