Position Type: Full-Time/Regular
Tracking Code: 3983
Job Description
Now do something extraordinary...
Your success is evidenced by the complex information technology systems you've designed, supported, or maintained. You've ensured thousands have access to the tools they need. What if you could use your technical skills to help build a better world for children - transforming today's world, where a child dies every seven seconds from causes related to poverty. Now that's doing something extraordinary.
As IT PM for the Product Services Group you will be responsible to project plan the reengineering of many existing manual operational processes to leverage more automated technologies. In this role you will also manage all aspects of the Product Services Operations role in partnership-wide initiatives, such as the Sponsorship 2.0 crowdsourcing quality control innovation project. This initiative will operationalize and simplify the quality control of Sponsorship 2.0 media, including videos, photos, community content etc. to bring the voice of the child closer to the donor. In your role you will help carry out our Christian organization’s mission, vision, and strategies and personify the ministry of World Vision by witnessing to Christ and ministering to others through life, deed, word and sign.
Responsibilities:
- Keep Christ central in our individual and corporate lives. Attend and participate in the leadership of devotions, weekly Chapel services, and regular prayer.
- Confirm customer needs, conduct impact analysis, and propose project plans utilizing best-practice project management methods and tools.
- Engage WVUS staff and external consultants as necessary to meet project resource requirements.
- Direct and manage work efforts of team members on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that work adheres to quality standards and is achieved by project deadlines.
- Track project milestones and adjust project plans and/or resources to meet client needs.
- Oversee project budget, ensuring that expenses do not exceed agreed-upon budget.
- Evaluate project progress and results and report them to client(s) and management, ensuring that changes to scope, budget, resources and risk are communicated in a timely way.
- Recommend changes to improve project efficiency so that time, budget and resources are used wisely.
- Ensure that training occurs pertaining to the use of new or updated systems, policies, procedures, and/or best practices that result from the project.
- Participate in meetings with project managers to update each other on the status of projects under management.
- Lead interdepartmental and cross-functional teams to achieve project goals.
- Develop project budget, ensuring that it is realistic, thorough and meets the client’s expectations.
- Obtain management buy-in for project approach and/or project scope changes; may include overseeing strategic planning, research and analysis.
- Oversee relationships with consultants and contractors responsible for performing project activities.
- Work collaboratively with team members when assigned to work as part of a team.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Keep informed of organizational announcements, activities and changes via regular reading of the WVUS Intranet and other corporate communication tools.
Required Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems or equivalent work experience (eight years). Work experience in the information systems field; 5-8 years. One year of project management work experience required.
- Sharepoint 2010 user, developer, integration and/or admin experience (1+ years preferred)
- Analytics/Dashboard/Reporting user, developer, and/or admin experience (1+ years preferred)
- Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) user, developer or integration experience (1+ years preferred)
- SQL (T-SQL and/or Oracle SQL) developer experience (1+ years preferred)
- Working knowledge of API's, web services, system security best practices, cloud to on-premise integrations preferred
Standard office environment. Some early morning or late evening phone calls may be required.
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