What are the responsibilities and job description for the Drupal Upgrade Project Manager position at RiseIT Solutions?
Title: Drupal Upgrade Project Manager
Location: Princeton, NJ - On-Site Hybrid
Type: Multi-Year Contract
Rate: Up to $88 per hour – DOE
Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Background: We need to fill a project manager vacancy for the Drupal 7 to 9 Upgrade Project. This muti-year, multi-million-dollar project is nearly 50% complete. As a major strategic investment in the University’s websites, WDS is seeking a highly experienced contractor through September 2023 to coordinate OIT staff, a vendor partner, and numerous campus partners.
Responsibilities for this role:
This position is responsible for managing the internal program to upgrade 1,000 websites from Drupal 7 to 9. The program consists of 3 phases. This project manager would be responsible for phases 2 and 3 which consist of upgrading 510 OpenScholar websites and 30 custom-built websites.
MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THE REQUESTED UPGRADES NOTED WITHIN DRUPAL - MOVING VERSION 7 TO VERSION 9. WE NEED CANDIDATES THAT HAVE PAST EXPERIENCE DOING THIS.
- Partner with project sponsor and program manager to prioritize project goals and risks
- Anticipate, identify, and mitigate project risks
- Manage vendor relationships to ensure deliverables are on-time and quality assured
- Partner with program manager to develop and deliver strategic communications
- Provide day-to-day communication with website owners
- Identify and help resolve project issues in an efficient and timely manner
- Troubleshoot, debug and log issues
- Manage a Jira backlog
- Facilitate weekly status and planning meetings
- Assign tasks to developers and designers – both in-house and external
- Produce and maintain a project schedule, notes, and documentation
Skills and experience needed for the role:
Must have:
- Large-scale project management experience with Drupal websites
- Agile project management experience
- Experience managing a Jira backlog, as well as entering stories, bugs, and tasks
- Excellent organizational skills
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work with people of varying levels of technical understanding
- Experience partnering with designers and developers to build websites
- Experience testing or providing quality assurance for websites
Strong preference:
- Experience as a business analyst working on technical projects
- Experience providing customer support
- Higher education experience
Salary : $88