Project Manager

Folsom, CA, United States

Project Manager Salary Range: $78,300.00 - $97,850.00 Exact compensation may vary based on skill, experience and location. POSITION PURPOSE Plan, execute, and finalize cross-departmental projects according to deadlines and within budget. Maintains responsibility for managing all project resources to meet business unit and system design specifications, monitoring financials, escalating issues before they impact project deadlines, and delivering successful projects. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND BASIC DUTIES Lead the planning and implementation of projects.

Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables.

Work with back-office teams and/or Product/Program Managers a to identify type, quantity, and quality of resources required for project implementation.

Plan and schedule project deliverables, goals, and milestones.

Develop full-scale, detailed project plans.

Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.

Track project deliverables using appropriate tools.

Provide direction and support to project teams.

Develop project communication strategy with stakeholders; establish communication plans.

Develop testing plans with business partners.

Constantly monitor and report on progress of projects to all stakeholders.

Present reports defining project progress, problems, and solutions to management.

Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.

Provide project evaluations and assessment of results upon project completion.

Efficiently identify and solve project issues.

Design and maintain project-related documentation.

Complete other duties, as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS Required Knowledge: One to four years of direct project management experience. Experience delivering projects for a financial institution. Technical experience preferred. Experience Required: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Required Knowledge: An advanced and adaptive understanding of project management disciplines ranging from Agile to Waterfall methodologies.

Accumulated knowledge of Project Management best practices that could be utilized to enhance PMO function across the organization

Knowledgeable of Information Technology terminology, disciplines, and common practices.

Experience Required: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. EXPERIENCE 5 to 10 years of Project Management experience. 5 years of Project Management experience related to Information Technology projects 5 years of experience delivering projects for Credit Unions or other types of financial institutions. SKILLS & ABILITIIES • Strong organizational, presentation, and customer service • Analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills. • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and projects with schedules running over multiple years. • Ability to function as a team player or independent contributor and the adaptability to switch when required. WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL DEMANDS SUMMARY LANGUAGE SKILLS Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, listening skills, and empathy).

Expert ability to build relationships with other leaders, business partners, and stakeholders.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS AND REASONING ABILITY Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or schedule form.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.

The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

INTENT AND FUNCTION OF JOB DESCRIPTIONS This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions.All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and basic duties have been included.Peripheral tasks, only incidentally related to each position, have been excluded.Requirements, skills, and abilities included have been determined to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the positions.While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals.However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization. Job descriptions are not intended as and do not create employment contracts.The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer.Employees can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.

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