Main Duties

• Lead the implementation of projects
• Organize and manage project team
• Generate and manage project artifacts, based on SURS PMO guidelines
• Ensure project scope and user requirements are clearly understood, and properly documented
• Perform project risk analysis and risk mitigation based on expertise and experience
• Monitor overall project health, timeline, and critical path; track project activities, tasks, issues, KPI’s
• Manage project budget
• Monitor, manage, and communicate changes to the project scope, budget, schedule and resources
• Be the stewards of relationship with project sponsors and other stakeholders
• Ensure proper Organizational Change Management efforts are in place at a level appropriate for the project
• Manage project communications, including status reporting
• Participate in the RFP process for IT Projects; provide guidance and support to Procurement Manager as needed
• Quickly identify issues, risks, vulnerabilities, and obstacles while observing project schedules, budgets, resources, timelines, and while evaluating progress. Initiate communication with stakeholders for resolution.
• Supervise, provide guidance to, and monitor progress of assigned Business Analyst to ensure project requirements are being properly documented and implemented. Contribute to functional architecture discussions with project team, SME’s and stakeholders.

• Any one or any combination totaling 5 years (60 months) from the following categories:
  • College coursework which includes Information Technology (IT), IT Management, Programming, IT Systems, or a closely related discipline, as measured by the following conversion table or its proportional equivalent:
    • 30 semester hours equals one (1) year (12 months)
    • Associate’s Degree (60 semester hours) equals eighteen months (18 months)
    • 90 semester hours equals two (2) years (24 months)
    • Bachelor’s Degree (120 semester hours) equals three (3) years (36 months)
  • Work experience in IT-related functions such as hardware/software support, programming, network design, network engineering, IT systems integration, or closely related field, which includes supervisory or lead worker capacity.
• Based on position requirements, additional education, training, and/or work experience in the area of specialization inherent to the position is required.
  • Experience with one or more Project Management tools, such as MS Project, Jira, Azure DevOps/Boards
  • Experience with multiple project management methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, Scrum
  • Clearly demonstrated experience managing projects, with focus in areas such as:
    • Application development projects, and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
    • Projects of a technical nature, i.e., IT Infrastructure, Security
    • ERP, CRM or large-scale LoB application implementations

• Knowledge of the systems and operations used within the areas and departments of responsibility.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to oversee and coordinate activities of assigned staff.
• Ability to effectively communicate with other colleagues, supervisors, administrative staff, and other campus/agency units.
• Ability to identify and resolve technical and personnel problems.
• Ability to effectively communicate and professionally interact with all staff levels.
• Ability to rapidly learn software tools as required.

• 5 years of relevant project management experience
• PMP, CAPM, Scrum Master, or related certifications
• Experience working with a QA team
• Experience with Prosci ADKAR change management methodology
• Proficient with Microsoft Office

• This is a hybrid position, a combination of remote workdays and office workdays, based in Champaign, IL. Candidates may also have the opportunity to work out of our Naperville, IL office. During the initial training period, fully in-office workdays may be required.

• Insurance benefits, including medical, vision and dental
• Participation in SURS retirement plan
• Paid vacation, sick leave and 11 paid holidays
• Paid Parental Leave after six months of employment
• Casual/business casual attire (dependent on job duties)
• Flexible work environment
• Free parking
• 37.5-hour standard work week