IT Project Leader

Gavilon Group · Omaha, NE

Company

Gavilon Group

Location

Omaha, NE

Type

Full Time

Job Description

Essential Job Functions:

  • Own overall schedule, budget, and deliverables for assigned projects.
  • Use waterfall and/or agile methodologies and practices to plan, manage, and deliver technology solutions, as defined by the project scope.
  • Schedule and facilitate project/scrum events and meetings.
  • Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
  • Plan and organize project deliverables, goals, and milestones.
  • Create and maintain project documentation.
  • As necessary, elicit functional business requirements using discovery workshops, surveys, site visits and/or shadows.
  • Communicate, translate, and simplify business requirements to ensure buy-in from all stakeholders.
  • Liaison with stakeholders such as end users, vendors, and project personnel regarding defining and documenting project requirements and processes.
  • Monitor and report project progress, issues, and risks to internal and external executive sponsors and stakeholders.
  • Train, mentor, and support project teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
  • Assist in owning and executing change management processes.
  • Guide project teams through go-live and warranty phases.
  • Provide ongoing and post-project evaluations/retrospectives.
  • Ensure knowledge transfer of project to appropriate support teams.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks efficiently and effectively.
  • Own prioritization processes for assigned projects against overall enterprise backlog to ensure teams are focused on highest value work.
  • Strong organizational, presentation, and customer service skills.


Other Job Functions:

  • Partner with various IT management teams to ensure appropriate prioritization and resource allocation, partner on change management, and champion knowledge transfer/training opportunities.
  • Attend and facilitate regular meetings with various business stacks to review and modify product backlogs.
  • Assist Gavilon's IT Project Management team in creating and implementing the organization's agile transformation roadmap.
  • Champion promoting and rolling out agile methodologies throughout Gavilon's business.
  • Any other additional tasks as assigned by management.


Qualifications/Education/Experience/Skills:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience required, degree in Information Technology, Communications, or related field preferred.
  • Certified Scrum Master and/or PMP Certification preferred.
  • Proficient in project management tools and techniques, and in requirements definition and management.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills. The ability to communicate clearly and concisely in oral, written, and presentation formats is essential.
  • Aptitude to accept complex assignments, analyze and prioritize problems, execute tasks, motivate others and have some fun!


Special Demands:

  • Frequent sitting at an office desk with computer for long periods of time.
  • May require potential travel to other Gavilon locations, both domestic and international.
  • May require lifting and bending for certain technology systems.

Date Posted

10/19/2022

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