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Tulane University is Hiring a Director of Project Management Near Orleans, LA
Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
- The Director will manage and develop PM staff. They will lead a diverse team of professional, technical, support staff, and contractors, both directly and indirectly.
- Ability to:
- Identify and deploy organization-wide best practices for project delivery in planning (strategy to execution) and requirements (outcomes and benefits).
- Create detailed project plans, monitor and report on progress including, milestones and dependencies.
- Ensure that project plans minimize disruption of delivery of services; identify, diagnose, optimize use of resources, and resolve bottlenecks and other sub-optimal activity.
- Develop and document complex business processes and workflows.
- Analyze business processes and workflow to drive efficiencies and identify innovation that technology enhancements may provide.
- Assess the impact of project risks and deviations in time, budgets, and resources. The director will need to be a problem solver and use proper judgment to escalate potential issues to appropriate stakeholders to mitigate risk.
- Identify and develop trusted adviser relationship with project and program stakeholders, sponsors and university stakeholders.
- Knowledge of Agile Development practices and environments.
- Understanding of Quality Assurance (QA) plans for testing.
- People management skills in leading and developing a team of project manager professionals.
- Ability to establish project management best practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature the project management capabilities at Tulane.
- Coaching on Project Management (PM) skills for leadership development and to help departments adopt PM best practices.
- Ability to coordinate planning with outside service vendors, assist clients with planning functional improvements, and act as a liaison between clients and vendors.
- Contributes to vendor selection and engagements.
- A broad understanding of ERP/best of breed systems from both a functional and technical perspective.
- Effective in engaging others in developing innovative solutions to important, highly complex strategic and operating problems in which cross-department and divisional considerations are often present.
- Demonstrated conflict resolution skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to effectively build, manage and maintain excellent working relationships with senior project sponsors and internal and external business partners.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills; ability to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously, and consistently meet established deadlines. Effective in providing briefings to supervisor on project status and escalating issues to supervisor as appropriate in a timely fashion.
- Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills with an ability to comprehensively plan, execute, and evaluate project effectiveness.
- Works independently and as a member of a team.
- Perform other duties as assigned to assist the department in maintaining its mission and deliver required services.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Business-related field and five years project management experience to include strategic planning experience
- Project Management (PM) Certification
- Master Project Manager or relevant experience managing complex projects in a higher education setting
- R1 University Administrative systems experience
- ERP systems (Oracle Cloud) implementation experience
- Knowledge of tools to assist with scrum team planning (e.g. Jira) and PM tools (e.g. MS Project)
- Process improvement, such as Lean or Six Sigma
Job Summary
Full Time
Colleges & Universities
$144k-178k (estimate)
05/21/2024
06/05/2024
tulane.edu
NEW ORLEANS, LA
3,000 - 7,500
1886
Private
SCOTT COWEN
$500M - $1B
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About Tulane University
Tulane University is an academic and research institution that provides graduation programs in various fields.
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