IT Project Manager

PLEASE NOTE: This position is a one-year, fixed-term role. This role is hybrid-eligible and will require candidates to be on-site at the Stanford Redwood City campus at least 2 days/week . University IT (UIT), part of the Business Affairs organization at Stanford University, is dedicated to delivering world-class service and technological solutions to advance research, teaching and learning, administration, and healthcare. This IT Project Manager 1 position reports to the UIT Project Management Office (UIT PMO), working with a group of technical project managers assembled into multidisciplinary teams to complete a broad range of critical University-wide technology projects, including Discovery and Implementation projects for enterprise applications and system integrations across domain areas like collaboration or content management, cloud services, data analytics and reporting, research computing, or information security or privacy. The project manager is responsible for managing multiple small to medium technical projects, leveraging project management best practices to drive continuous improvement and ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes. The project manager is expected to weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders, act with the highest professionalism, and exercise independent judgment and decision-making. Desired experience includes a proven track record of motivating a diverse team, partnering effectively with sponsors and decision-makers, and identifying and efficiently managing project issues and risks, while successfully managing projects to timely delivery and within budgetary expectations. The position typically focused 80% on project leadership and 20% on technical contribution. The project manager is expected to manage multiple projects, such as vendor selection and implementation, SaaS projects, development, and IT infrastructure projects, and application upgrades simultaneously. Core Duties : Perform the full range of project management cycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Lead projects requiring functional integration. Complete sub-project and/or stand-alone elements (or a contained project such as construction project). Direct development of an action plan, and estimate requirements for resources, including management, labor, materials, and time required to complete project. Facilitate discussions and negotiations to drive recommendation consensus within scope of responsibility. Develop and help execute comprehensive change management strategy and communication plan relative to project scope and stakeholders on a focused project; actively manage resistance to change. These elements typically delineate the project management involved at this level: Charter- charter and scoping involvement or scope definition, identify and shape scope; # of disciplines /stakeholders to manage is contained to localized department or university constituents; risk- manage and report on risks associated with projects to upper management, risk sharing is maintained between management and project manager; project complexity involves straight-forward technology applications to drive decisions; primary university relationship is at the individual faculty, department /director level; cumulative budget/scope from $100k to $250k. Minimum Education : Bachelor's degree in a related field Minimum Experience : Three years of related experience in management of projects of moderate size/complexity with limited performance risk, including project planning, scheduling, tracking, and budgeting, or a combination of education and experience. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities : Polished written and oral communication skills to address a wide variety of audiences. Ability to productively engage and influence cross-functional teams. Demonstrated project management ability to employ integration, scope time management, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement components. Demonstrated resilience, diplomacy, influence, relationship building, and problem solving skills in a variety of situations. Depth of knowledge in technical discipline/domain needed to deliver projects. Certificates and Licenses Required Project Management Professional (PMP) certified completion of a Project Management Certificate program, or certification in process.