Project Manager 1 at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Overview

Principles of Operation:

Partner to find and create solutions that meet the divinely appointed responsibilities of the Church. Foster an environment of trust and unity. Build upon each other's strengths and ideas to create effective products. Deliver effective and timely communication.

Role

Purpose:

• Clearly understand and communicate project objectives and goals.
• Organize the needed resources to meet project requirements.
• Owns project-level scope, schedule, and budget.
• Ensure projects adhere to Church process and policy equivalent to the sphere of work.
• Act as project generalist – may be asked to manage a range of project times (e.g. web, mobile, exhibits, etc.).
• Engage when multiple deliverables coalesce into a cohesive whole and end-to-end management is needed.

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management: Understands, coordinates, and manages client and resource team expectations.
• Integration Management: Plans, directs, manages, monitors, controls, and closes projects of small to medium complexity.
• Scope Management: Uses standard processes to ensure projects/programs include all and only the work required to complete the project successfully.
• Time Management: Uses standard processes to ensure the timely completion of projects.
• Cost Management: Uses standard processes to ensure projects are completed within the approved budget.
• Quality Management: Uses standard processes to ensure the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
• Human Resource Management: Uses personal skills and standard processes to make the most effective use of the project team.
• Communications Management: Uses standard processes to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. Provides the critical links among people, ideas, and information that are necessary for success.
• Risk Management: Uses standard process to identify, analyze, and respond to project risk.
• Procurement Management: Uses standard processes to acquire goods and services from providers.

Requirements

Required:

Bachelors degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

Minimum 3 years of work experience in a related field (preferably project management or project coordination).

Manage scope, schedule, and budget of projects that are typically of low complexity, with a low number of deliverables in few languages.

Proficiency in a project management system like WorkFront.

Manage and communicate with cross-functional team members.

Preferred:

Actively pursuing PMP Certification or other project management certification recognized in specific industries.