Director - IT Project Management

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SUMMARY:

Responsible for ensuring that IT business projects are prioritized, governed, and executed effectively to achieve better quality, consistency, and oversight of projects across the Pace enterprise; develops and maintains project-management methods, standards, and tools with an emphasis on improving project-management practices.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Supervises staff including hiring, training, evaluating performance, providing compensation recommendations, and performance management.
• Establishes and evolves the project management function and operating model setting standards, qualifications, success criteria, metrics, methods, and tools.
• Ensures standard cost-benefit analyses are conducted for evaluating IT project proposals
• Collaborates with financial management on budgets and supply chain management while monitoring compliance with Pace's policies and standards.
• Ensures the needs of each Pace strategic business unit (SBU) is understood and represented within the IT organization; develops roadmaps to guide the delivery of SBU-related needs, ensuring development and implementation of cost-effective systems and efficient systems operations to meet current and future business requirements and communicates plans and results.
• Provides business stakeholders with the information needed to assess which project proposals have the highest strategic alignment and business value.
• Interfaces with stakeholders to define project priorities and technology-related opportunities as input to IT roadmaps
• Ensures appropriate allocation of IT resources to business priorities by managing the IT project portfolio to balance the supply of IT resources with the demand for project needs.
• Manages project execution for on-time delivery, project scope, and budget; manages the risk, issue, and change processes and works with other leaders to take corrective actions as needed.
• Contributes to the efficiency and effectiveness of the department's service to its customers by offering suggestions and directing or participating as an active member of a work team.
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• Promotes and supports the overall mission of Pace Analytical by demonstrating courteous and cooperative behavior when interacting with customers and staff; acts in a manner that promotes a harmonious and effective workplace environment.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a closely related field; AND ten (10) years of managerial experience in information technology project and program management; OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Required Knowledge and Skills

Required Knowledge:

• Principles and practices of project prioritization and portfolio management, project management, and associated methods, techniques, processes, and tools (e.g., Project and Portfolio Management or PPM)
• Resource-management tools
• Principles and practices of developing teams, motivating employees, and managing in a team environment.
• Principles and practices of information technology operations management.
• Applicable laws, codes, and regulations.
• Administrative principles and practices, including goal setting, program development, implementation, and evaluation.
• Techniques for dealing with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.
• Principles and techniques of providing effective oral presentations
• Correct business English, including spelling, grammar, and punctuation
• Systems-development methods and their application in a large corporate setting

Required Skills:

• Planning, organizing, and administering comprehensive programs and projects related to assigned activities/responsibilities.
• Managing and providing for the training and professional development of assigned staff.
• Budgeting and cost-management.
• Developing and implementing goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and work standards.
• Developing effective work teams and motivating individuals to meet goals and objectives and provide customer services most cost-effectively and efficiently.
• Fostering an environment of employee, community, and customer engagement.
• Leading business planning, competitive analysis, and strategy development.
• Applying Strategic Thinking manage multiple goals and deadlines in the context of the big picture.
• Facilitating, Negotiating, and Problem-solving to build a strong network and relationships at multiple organization levels.
• Using initiative and independent judgment within established organizational and leadership guidelines
• Using tact, discretion, and prudence in working with those contacted in the course of the work
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with a variety of individuals contacted in the course of the work

Compensation: $200,000.00 to $225,000.00 per year

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Benefits
When you join Pace, you commit to work that makes a positive impact on our communities and our world. We commit to supporting you with benefits and perks that make a positive impact on your life. Full-time roles are eligible for our comprehensive benefits program which includes competitive salaries, medical, dental vision, 401K retirement savings plan (100% vested immediately in the employer match), life, disability and voluntary benefits, paid time off for holiday, sick and vacation days, HSA, wellness program, flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, Employee Assistance program, parental leave, optional legal coverage and ID theft.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Pace provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, creed, color, religion, genetics, protected veteran status, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.