at ADRDA INC., dba The Alzheimer's Association in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
The IT Project Manager will demonstrate team leadership skills and use industry best practices throughout the project life cycle to manage the project scope, resources and schedule. This individual will identify and monitor project risks and issues as well as the project budget. They will serve as the liaison to third party vendors and suppliers and manage vendor contracts to track adherence to project deliverables and timelines. They will elicit and document business requirements, write user stories and develop process diagrams as well as develop test plans and work with the team to lead them through UAT. They will document lessons learned at project closure and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. This individual must possess excellent communication and relationship building skills.
Responsibilities
Essential functions and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Leadership/industry best practices
Use industry best practices, techniques and standards to lead teams throughout the entire project life cycle. (Recognized project management and business analysis organizations include PMI, Scrum Alliance, IIBA.)
Relationship building/communication
Build and maintain relationships with key project stakeholders and vendors.
Provide project updates on a consistent basis to appropriate stakeholders about timeline, issues and progress.
Scope management
Define and manage project scope and objectives.
Resource management
Identify resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner to accomplish the work of the project.
Project plan/schedule management
Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan. Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed.
Project budget management
Work with key stakeholder(s) to manage a budget based on scope of work and resource requirements. Track project costs in order to meet budget.
Vendor liaison/contract management
Serve as liaison to 3rd party vendors. Manage contracts, statements of work, and/or change orders with vendors and suppliers. Monitor tasks and communicate and track expected deliverables. This is an auditable activity.
Project performance/continuous improvement
Document Lessons Learned at project closure.
Survey the project team to understand project performance and identify areas for continuous improvement.
Business Analysis
Needs and Requirements
Elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders/end users.
Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
Translate conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
Documentation
Use standard templates to document and obtain stakeholder approval for: business requirements and reports and visualizations specifications.
Assist with the development of user stories, use cases and test cases.
Create process and specification models, diagrams, and charts as necessary.
Quality Assurance
Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
Participate in QA of software or other project solutions to ensure the features and functions have been enabled and developed to meet business needs and requirements.
As part of the validation of needs and requirements:
Establish the testing approach and coordinate and lead UAT testing with appropriate SMEs & stakeholders.
Monitor and track any issues to resolution.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Required Education: Bachelor's degree.
Proficient in Google Docs, Drive and/or Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project.
Required Years of Experience: At least three (3) years of project management and business analysis experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Ability to demonstrate leadership and teamwork skills to complete projects successfully.
High degree of organization; detail-oriented.
Ability to prioritize and manage competing project tasks in order to manage timelines and schedules for successful project completion.
Ability to make effective decisions under pressure.
Ability to research, analyze and make recommendations to resolve issues or project challenges.
Ability to communicate effectively, in writing or verbally, with technical and non-technical end-users.
Title: IT Project Manager
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The Alzheimer’s Association is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and provides consideration for an employment relationship without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, genetic predisposition, national origin, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
