Senior Project Manager
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- Central Administration
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- Sep 11, 2024 Post Date
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$111,454 - $86,025 Note: This position is not represented by a union. The salary range for this position is
The School District of Philadelphia is committed to becoming the fastest improving District in the country and transforming the educational opportunities it offers to our city’s more than 200,000 students. The District seeks leaders who have a passion for working with schools and communities who are committed to ensuring all students achieve. Serving a population as diverse as ours requires creativity, commitment and vision. Will you join us?
Job Summary
This is administrative and managerial project work, overseeing all components of a large scale Office of Student Life projects and initiatives, inclusive of project scope preparation, project and life cycle implementation, staffing coordination and/or management, contract administration, and budget oversight. Employees in this class are responsible for facilitating dialogue between internal customers, technology staff, developers, vendors, external agencies, schools and community partners. Work involves meetings with clients to discuss their needs and documenting business rules for various projects and/or identifying and implementing professional learning with central offices, schools and community partners. Serves as a point of contact for clients with projects in progress. Work additionally involves formally employing industry-recognized projects management principles, techniques, and best practices, to develop, monitor, report, and coordinate all aspects of a project from inception to post-implementation support. Ensures that actions are strategic and include a plan on the evaluation of progress. Project oversight activities may additionally include coordination of support activities inclusive of training, outreach, and customer relationship management. Ensures that data pertaining to programmatic activities is systematically collected, reviewed and analyzed. Projects in this class are classified as large and complex enterprise-wide information service, application software, technology infrastructure initiatives or administrative educational initiatives characterized by multi-year life cycles.
Essential Functions
All Specialties
• Develops strategies for appropriate scopes of work.
• Participates or directs contract negotiation and/or preparation.
• Plans and manages timelines, and monitors progress of various projects and work streams; provides progress updates to project leads.
• Works with selected teams on specific aspects of meeting project goals in a timely manner.
• Prepares, manages, audits, and maintains direct responsibility for project budgets.
• Prepares reports related to project status and projections.
• Directly supervises project or department staff as required.
• Develops and builds good communications and relationships between central offices and schools.
• Participates in confidential and/or sensitive matters and/or projects at every level of the enterprise.
• Works within setting priorities for the completion of requested services.
• Participates in organizational planning with departmental offices.
• Assists in various projects when needed.
• Collaborates with managers of academic initiatives to define performance goals, set targets, and develop project timelines and milestones to help reach performance goals.
• Establishes routines and facilitates regular project meetings among various District staff involved in implementing and evaluating initiatives for purposes of progress monitoring, program review, and program improvement.
• Provides problem-solving support to initiative managers and helps ensure that input and feedback from colleagues across the organization is solicited and incorporated.
• Supports initiative managers to identify risks, strategize solutions, and develop plans to address identified issues in order to maintain initiative/project momentum.
• Helps drive process, including data analysis, recommendation development, decision making, and communication.
• Serves as a liaison between the Office of Student Life and other District offices to build collaborative relationships across functional teams.
• Collects, analyzes, interprets and utilizes data to evaluate program effectiveness, works closely with District academic offices to compile and report out on local data.
• Assists with the resolution of complex procedural issues and provides support for specialized policy-oriented research efforts.
• Collaborates as part of a team to create and drive the overall work of the Office of Student Life
Minimum Requirements
• Completion of a bachelor’s degree program from an accredited college or university. • Six years of full-time, paid, professional, experience in either operations, finance, education, or information technology which has included serving as a team lead or project manager.
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• Any equivalent combination of training and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Talent.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
All Specialties
• Demonstrated knowledge of:
o The procedures and methods utilized to implement systemic change in a timely, accurate, and effective manner.
o Asana Project Management, FileMaker Pro Advanced, Excel or Microsoft Project, Vision and/or other productivity and scheduling tools.
• Demonstrated ability to:
o Manage large or complex projects and/or budgets.
o Plan, organize, and direct project activities and allocate staff resources to tasks efficiently.
o Analyze and resolve complex problems.
o Represent a superior at meetings and conferences.
o Present ideas effectively, both orally and in writing.
o Lead and implement strategic initiatives under aggressive deadlines. o Function as an entrepreneurial self-starter, a team leader, a facilitator, and as a member of a team.
o Build and maintain strong, effective working relationships across all levels of an organization.
o Coordinate cross-functional teams.
o Understand, interpret, and analyze a variety of data sources.
o Design and develop systems, tools, and schedules for collecting, maintaining, and reporting on performance data.
o Adapt to different situations, particularly when new information is provided. o Use MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
o Represent a superior at meetings and conferences.
o Present ideas effectively, both orally and in writing.
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
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