IT Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, executing, and monitoring information technology projects and technology-enabled initiatives that support Front Range Community College's strategic objectives.

This position works closely with project sponsors, stakeholders, business units, and technical teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with institutional priorities. The Project Manager facilitates project planning, communication, risk management, and resource coordination while ensuring compliance with established project management methodologies, governance standards, and Agile practices.

The Project Manager supports the Information Technology Project Management Office (PMO) by maintaining project documentation, reporting project status, managing risks and issues, and promoting consistent project management practices across the organization.

This position does have the opportunity to work remotely occasionally but does require a strong on-campus presence and may require occasional travel to all three FRCC campuses and professional conferences.

Please note: You need to be a Colorado resident on your first day of employment. Also, Front Range Community College is an E-Verify employer.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Project Planning, Coordination, Execution and PMO Support

• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of assigned technology projects.

• Develop project charters, project plans, schedules, resource plans, and communication plans.

• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, and success criteria

• Coordinate project activities across technical teams, departments, vendors, and stakeholders.

• Ensure project deliverables meet quality expectations and business requirements.

• Track project progress and facilitate timely completion of project activities.

• Maintain project documentation and project records within approved project management tools.

• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and issues to project sponsors and leadership.

• Facilitate project meetings and status reviews

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project management practices.

• Support Agile project management practices and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives as appropriate.

• Ensure compliance with PMO standards, methodologies, templates, and governance requirements.

Risk, Issue, and Resource Management

• Identify, assess, document, and manage project risks and issues.

• Develop mitigation and contingency plans.

• Monitor project dependencies and resource constraints.

• Escalate significant project concerns to leadership as appropriate

• Assist with project prioritization and resource coordination activities

Reporting and Performance Measurement

• Update and Maintain project status reports and dashboards.

• Monitor project performance metrics and key performance indicators.

• Prepare project updates for governance reviews and leadership meetings.

• Support portfolio reporting and project analytics activities.

Competencies/KSAs:

• Mission, Vision & Values: Embraces the mission, vision and values of FRCC. Understands the importance of the work that you do to support institutional goals. Mentoring & Coaching: Provides mentoring and coaching to others and seeks mentoring and feedback to improve own performance • Leadership: Understand the current and desired state and the steps required to move from one to the other. Influence others in a positive direction, even when lacking formal authority. • Critical Thinking: Recognize opportunities and think through solutions based on pertinent data, experience, knowledge and input from stakeholders. • Communication: Use written and oral communication skills to build consensus within diverse stakeholder groups including students, faculty, staff, and technicians. Provide coaching and essential feedback in a timely manner. Stakeholder engagement, Facilitation and meeting management, Conflict resolution • Team Building: Work collaboratively and respectfully toward a common goal with a diverse group of individuals. Challenge solutions though thought-provoking questions while also committing fully once a course of action is identified. • Project Management: Understand and utilize the concepts and terminology of project management. Collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups and manage expectations while successfully driving projects to completion. Project planning and scheduling, Scope management, Budget and resource coordination, Risk and issue management, Project lifecycle management, Agile Methodologies, Scrum and Agile frameworks, Sprint planning and execution, Backlog management, Continuous improvement practices. • Customer Service: Address customer concerns in a professional, courteous and timely manner with a genuine desire to consistently deliver a positive customer experience. • Technical Skills: Create and share work using standard software applications, participate in remote/virtual meetings. Experience with project management software such as Microsoft Project and Planner, Wrike or Trello and Agile Scrum, Kanban, and Gantt charts.

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer information systems, computer science or a computer-related field, or business management. And Two years progressively responsible project management experience which included one or more of the following: • Verifying and validating requirements for new projects to ensure alignment with the business, IT goals, and industry standards; • Performing strategic business research and defining requirements to support standardizing processes and integrating information systems that contributed to continuous process improvement • Evaluating business processes from a business and IT perspective and translating business needs into system requirements, developing project plans, evaluating ROI, and managing the completion of multiple concurrent projects.

OR

• Associate’s degree in computer information systems, computer science or a computer-related field, or business management. And Four years progressively responsible project management experience which included one or more of the following: • Verifying and validating requirements for new projects to ensure alignment with the business, IT goals, and industry standards; • Performing strategic business research and defining requirements to support standardizing processes and integrating information systems that contributed to continuous process improvement • Evaluating business processes from a business and IT perspective and translating business needs into system requirements, developing project plans, evaluating ROI, and managing the completion of multiple concurrent projects. • Experience working project management software such as Microsoft Project and Planner, Wrike or Trello and Agile Scrum, Kanban, and Gantt charts. • Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse populations and multiple internal and external stakeholders. Selection Process

Salary Information: The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum starting salary for the position. When determining the starting salary for a new employee, FRCC takes into consideration a combination of the selected candidate’s education, training and experience as it relates to the requirements of the position, as well as the position’s scope and complexity, internal pay equity and external market value.

With three campuses along Colorado’s Front Range, FRCC is the state’s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities. Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities and FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the “Top Online Colleges” in the country by Newsweek. One of FRCC’s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college’s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body. The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive. FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We’re looking to hire people who share these values—along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence., With three campuses along Colorado’s Front Range, FRCC is the state’s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities. Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities and FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the “Top Online Colleges” in the country by Newsweek. One of FRCC’s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college’s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body. The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive. FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We’re looking to hire people who share these values—along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence.