Job Description:

Director of Project ManagementProject Management and Strategic Consulting

Location: New Orleans, LA

Summary

The Director of Project Management is responsible for planning, implementing, and ensuring the timely delivery of university-wide project initiatives. The Director will create and manage budgets and complex business plans related to project development and implementation. The Director will ensure that well-established project management methodologies are utilized and adopted during the entire project lifecycle. The Director of Project Management works closely with the Director of Change Management to ensure that strategies, methods, and processes from these two core pillars (Project management and Change Management) are aligned to maximize project effectiveness and achieve user adoption. Furthermore, the Director of Project Management will partner with colleagues in administrative and academic functions to create opportunities for these colleagues to learn and deploy effective project management methodologies.

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree in a Business-related field and five years project management experience to include strategic planning experience* Project Management (PM) Certification

Preferred Qualifications

* Master Project Manager or relevant experience managing complex projects in a higher education setting* R1 University Administrative systems experience * ERP systems (Oracle Cloud) implementation experience* Knowledge of tools to assist with scrum team planning (e.g. Jira) and PM tools (e.g. MS Project)* Process improvement, such as Lean or Six Sigma

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