IT Project Manager (Immediate Opening)

IDEA Public Schools is hiring an IT Project Manager to lead a portfolio of technical projects for its Information Systems and IT Systems teams. The role oversees project delivery, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, stakeholder communication, and change management, while supporting PMO practices and organizational technology goals.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of technical systems projects and effectively monitor and manage risks, issues, and changes in partnership and alignment with customer expectations, IDEA staff, and established standards
• Lead, plan, direct, and coordinate activities for complex work efforts to accomplish goals and objectives within the prescribed timeframe and budget
• Manage and execute multiple technical project deliverables to control scope
• Create and manage project plans related to schedule, budget, scope, and resources
• Establish overall project governance, communication with impacted stakeholders and project communication and change management plans
• Understand each project's critical path activities and proactively manage those to project's benefit
• Ensure sound technical engineering is incorporated in project plans by working with system administrators and engineers
• Assist with implementation of Project Management Office (PMO) frameworks and best practices across projects
• As part of the Project Management Office team, you will contribute to reaching the following ambitious goals:
• Project Delivery: Ensure all assigned projects are delivered within the defined constraints
• BoY (Beginning of Year) Program: 100% of Information Systems and Technology BoY deliverables completed by one week before First Day of School
• Fiscal Stewardship: Information Systems and Technology will leverage existing, emerging, and innovative technologies to enhance, improve, and streamline business processes with a TCO/per student YoY decrease of 5%
• Cyber Security: Ensure 100% of network connected systems and resources are at a Security Maturity Level of at least "2 – Repeatable" in accordance with the Texas Cyber Security Framework
• Service Availability: Achieve 99.5% uptime for all hosted systems, networks, and applications
• New Region Launch: IST services integrated, systems implemented, and infrastructure deployed in new regions within compliance and governance constraints

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university in Business Management
• Project Management Professional Certification from an accredited institution such as Project Management Institute (PMI) or CAPM
• 3+ years of IT Project Management experience leading multiple, large-scale, cross-functional technical projects in a complex environment
• 3+ years of experience using PPM and CWM tools to manage a project portfolio (Asana, Microsoft Project Online, Monday.com, Quickbase, Smartsheet, Wrike, etc.)
• Proven experience leading delivery of complex engineering and technical implementation projects using both agile and waterfall project delivery
• Required technology: High familiarity with Microsoft 365, database systems, etc
• Experience in project management oversight of the project management life-cycle, helping companies through all phases of an implementation
• Extensive work experience in managing vendors, their work allocation, and delivery
• Experience with information security, privacy and retention standards and regulations like FISMA, NIST, FERPA, HIPAA
• Experience with virtual servers and cloud-hosted solutions
• PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner preferred
• CompTIA Network+ preferred
• CompTIA Security+ preferred
• ITIL 4 Foundation
• Specialist preferred
• VMware preferred