Project Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Key/Essential Skills:
Facilitate the intake and refinement of roadmap items for development.
Manage and lead agile ceremonies.
Track the progress of roadmap items to remove blockers and increase transparency across the organization.
Gather and communicate technical requirements to detail-oriented, non-technical stakeholders.
Design and author progress reports for senior executive and key stakeholders.

To be considered at the Project Manager Principal level you must meet the following qualifications:
Associates Degree and 14 years of directly relevant work experience.
Bachelors Degree and 12 years of directly relevant work experience.
Masters Degree and 10 years of directly relevant work experience.

Responsibilities:
Overview of Responsibilities:
Directs, coordinates, and monitors all activities for a variety of large, highly integrated and complex programs or projects related to new products, services, web solutions or automated systems implementation with significant FRS or Bank-wide impact
Consults with all levels of Bank and FRS management, staff and customers on services, products and automation or systems solutions for business problem-solving, conflict resolution and lead decision-making
As needed, provides the translation between the technical automation or systems solution and business line processes
Plans, coordinates, and monitors all stages of project management including initiation, planning, execution, implementation, and closure, ensuring compliance with System and industry standards, methodologies, and guidelines
Ensures timely delivery of necessary artifacts throughout project and/or program lifecycle
Develops project agreements or charters based on requirements, risk, and complexity of potential solutions, and creates project plans, integrated schedules accordingly
Ensures all of the project`s technological requirements and objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for implementation
Ensures agreement from project sponsor(s) and stakeholders is received for initial scope and project plans and any changes throughout the project lifecycle
Directs all aspects of the project or program team, with support from management to assign individual responsibilities, tasks, priorities, and technical functions
Identifies the project`s/program's key success indicators and manages the work within scope, quality, time, and cost constraints
Manages to successful outcomes through identifying and addressing issues and risks
Serves as a key liaison between project/program team, vendors and Bank and FRS management, and business line users, and plays a primary role in FRS workgroups
Coordinates the implementation, training, and documentation of related procedures
Routinely prepares and delivers written and oral communications, including presentations to Senior Management
Provides consistent and comprehensive project/program status reports, updates, and on-going cost analyses
Evaluates completed projects/programs in comparison to cost/time projections
Serves as project, program, and/or portfolio manager for the coordinated management of multiple projects including summarizing overall status for multiple projects
Effectively manages and coordinates complex, cross-functional teams working toward different, but integrated goals and projects; coordination may include project management and scrum resources
Demonstrates strategic thought direction and leadership in addressing unique or complex situations that impact the related project(s), programs, or portfolios
Monitors developments and best practices in the internal/external business environment, FRS, and regulatory matters
Anticipates potential challenges, including internal and external business challenges and regulatory issues
Advises and recommends appropriate realignments to programs, projects, portfolios, processes, training, resources, products, or services
Provides tactical and strategic options and project or portfolio recommendations as input to applicable project governance groups
Acts as technical subject matter expert with broad knowledge of related disciplines
Plays a primary and influential role in FRS workgroups
Generates timely and appropriate communications, develops, produces and/or delivers organizational and enterprise-level presentations, views, and reports related to project/s and/or programs
Ensures that programs and/or projects conform to standards such as technical, quality, timeliness, and cost, as well as to relevant FRS policy, governance, guidance, and frameworks
Monitors and reports on progress, performance, and status
Manages and motivates Project Managers and Teams to complete valuable projects.
Develop and manage project/program budget
Strategic SWOT Analysis
Program Proposals and Executive Level dashboarding & presentation skills
Provides work direction to less experienced Project Managers
Performs other duties as assigned