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Project Manager

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Summary: In this role, the Project Manager (PM) will manage integration projects with emphasis on quality assurance and process development & improvement. The PM ensures projects are executed, tracked and communicated in a consistent and effective manner through the development and deployment of defined, repeatable and measurable processes.

Description:

Primary Responsibilities – including but not limited to the following:
  • Responsible and accountable for overall project performance for projects.
  • Ensures project costs, schedule and scope are managed to stay within approved constraints.
  • Interface with external and internal stakeholders to coordinate project requirements.
  • Primary communicator with the project sponsor/owner and key stakeholders on project issues and concerns.
  • Ensures a good working relationship between the project team, functional managers, and matrix organization.
  • Coaches and leads team members to ensure completion of assigned tasks.
  • Identify and obtain project team resources.
  • Responsible for development and/or improvement of processes.
  • Responsible for performing quality assurance within projects, products, and processes.
  • Ensures the project team members understand their respective responsibility and accountability.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:

Required
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related discipline.
  • At least four (4) years of practical project management experience with a strong focus in the following project areas: IT, process & quality improvement, and auditing.
  • Ability to work within a matrix organization.
  • Ability to mentor others, including peers, in the execution of projects.
  • Experience with project development utilizing PMBOK & Agile industry standards
  • Strong Experience with quality assurance methodologies and techniques (i.e. Corrective Actions & Preventative Actions, Internal Configuration Audits, Physical Configuration Audits, Functional Configuration Audits, Document Control)
  • Strong Experience with process development and improvement methodologies (i.e. Six Sigma, Lean)
  • Ability to function effectively in a team environment.
  • Effective oral and written communication skills.
  • Ability to think independently.
  • Ability to analyze and solve complex problems.
  • Ability to quickly grasp technical issues and offer solutions.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
  • PMP Certification.
Desired
  • Master’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or other related field.
  • At least five (5) years of project management experience.
  • At least five (5) years of quality assurance experience.
  • At least five (5) years of process development and improvement experience.
  • At least five (5) years of IT and higher education/ business work experience.
  • Six Sigma Green Belt Certification.

Company

Rowan University

Since its founding in 1923, Rowan University has evolved from a teacher preparation college to a public research institution ranked among the top 100 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Today, Rowan University offers bachelor through doctoral degrees and professional certificates in person and online to 22,000 students through its main campus in Glassboro, N.J., its medical school campuses in Camden, Stratford, and Sewell, and on the campuses of partner community colleges. 

Rowan focuses on practical research at the intersection of engineering, medicine, science, and business while ensuring excellence in undergraduate education. The University has earned national recognition for innovation; commitme

Rowan University will become a new model for higher education by being inclusiveagile, and responsive, offering diverse scholarly and creative educational experiences, pathways, environments, and services to meet the needs of all students; maintaining agility by strategically delivering organizational capacity across the institution; and responding to emerging demands and opportunities regionally and nationally.nt to high-quality, affordable education; and the development of public-private partnerships. A Carnegie-classified R2 (high research activity) institution, Rowan is the nation’s third fastest-growing public research university, as reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

As a leading employer in southern New Jersey with over 3,500 employees, Rowan offers comprehensive and competitive employment. 

A dynamic institution in the midst of unprecedented growth, Rowan offers faculty small classes, strong academic programs and ample research and leadership opportunities.

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