Santa Clara Valley Water District
Valley Water is searching for top-tier candidates to fill this exciting opportunity.
Internal candidates will get first consideration for applications received by 1/5/2024.
Overview:
Do you thrive on driving projects from inception to completion? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment? Are you an experienced IT project manager with 5 years of IT Project Management Experience? If so, review this great career opportunity.
This role will function as a Project Manager for a variety of projects.
Projects can range from small short-term projects to large multi-year projects with budgets greater than $500,000.
Projects will cross all aspects of technology, including hardware, software, and cloud.
This role will also include business analysis, working closely with business units throughout Valley Water.
Understanding business processes, soliciting requirements, and assisting Units across Valley Water to make the best use of technology.
The selected candidate will be responsible for schedules, budgets, resources, and project deliverables.
The selected candidate will deliver business results by ensuring that project management best practices are being met.
Monitor teams to make sure the project goals and objectives are being kept.
Serve as a conduit between IT and business units.
Duties in this area include analyzing financial reports, market research and operating procedures, strategizing ideas to improve business operations and meeting with Valley Water stakeholders to provide suggestions based on their analysis.
Support internal IT processes, including budget creation, coordination of tasks and preparation and presentation of reports to various levels of management.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Project planning and management of technology projects for internal IT and business focused projects.
Analyze business functions and process issues, working to help Units throughout Valley Water to make the best use of technology.
Assist, coordinate and/or lead IT tasks and cross functional processes.
Participate in budget preparation and vendor selection processes.
Work with key stakeholders to understand business needs and create a project management plan that aligns with strategic objectives, while managing resources and ensuring projects stay on task.
Coordinate with different Units to produce better business outcomes.
Write clear and well-structured business requirements/documents.
Communicate and validate requirements with relevant stakeholders.
Perform data discovery, analysis, and modeling.
Create project plans, project charters and project schedules.
Maintain project objectives.
Report on project progress, offer viable solutions and opportunities as they ariseImplement change practices.
Lead meetings and set expectations for the project team.
Maintain budget.
Report on projects to all levels of staff and management.
Ideal Candidate's Background Includes:
Applicants whose experience and background best match the ideal experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and education are considered ideal candidates for the position.
To determine the top candidates, each applicant will be assessed based on the ideal candidate criteria as listed below.
Ideal
Experience:
5 years of experience in systems analysis, development, or software implementations.
Experience eliciting requirements, evaluating, selecting, and implementing various technology solutions.
Experience reviewing application portfolio to ensure technology solutions are properly utilized and leveraged across the organization.
Project Management experience with technology solution implementations.
PMP certification preferred.
Ideal Skills and Abilities:
Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives.
Propose solution recommendations and alternatives to satisfy customer needs.
Collaborate with enterprise architecture, information security, applications, and infrastructure teams to produce optimal designs.
Produce technical documentation of systems and architectures.
Ensure solutions are scalable and non-redundant.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
Act as a collaborative liaison between IT and the businessEstablish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
Ideal Knowledge:
Methods and techniques of evaluating business needs and developing information systems solutions including functional requirements development and systems and procedures analysis.
Principles and practices of project development, administration, and management including project cost estimating, RFP development, contracts negotiation and management.
Emerging technologies and software, cloud computing, multi-platform applications and software.
ITIL principles and practices.
Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Ideal Training and Education:
Equivalent to a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
Substitution Directly related experience may be substituted for the college requirement on the basis of one and one-half years of experience for one year of education to a maximum of four years.
Job Type:
Full-TimeLocation:
5750 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA, CaliforniaAgency:
Information TechnologyAbout the Company:
Santa Clara Valley Water District.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Internal candidates will get first consideration for applications received by 1/5/2024.
Overview:
Do you thrive on driving projects from inception to completion? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment? Are you an experienced IT project manager with 5 years of IT Project Management Experience? If so, review this great career opportunity.
This role will function as a Project Manager for a variety of projects.
Projects can range from small short-term projects to large multi-year projects with budgets greater than $500,000.
Projects will cross all aspects of technology, including hardware, software, and cloud.
This role will also include business analysis, working closely with business units throughout Valley Water.
Understanding business processes, soliciting requirements, and assisting Units across Valley Water to make the best use of technology.
The selected candidate will be responsible for schedules, budgets, resources, and project deliverables.
The selected candidate will deliver business results by ensuring that project management best practices are being met.
Monitor teams to make sure the project goals and objectives are being kept.
Serve as a conduit between IT and business units.
Duties in this area include analyzing financial reports, market research and operating procedures, strategizing ideas to improve business operations and meeting with Valley Water stakeholders to provide suggestions based on their analysis.
Support internal IT processes, including budget creation, coordination of tasks and preparation and presentation of reports to various levels of management.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Project planning and management of technology projects for internal IT and business focused projects.
Analyze business functions and process issues, working to help Units throughout Valley Water to make the best use of technology.
Assist, coordinate and/or lead IT tasks and cross functional processes.
Participate in budget preparation and vendor selection processes.
Work with key stakeholders to understand business needs and create a project management plan that aligns with strategic objectives, while managing resources and ensuring projects stay on task.
Coordinate with different Units to produce better business outcomes.
Write clear and well-structured business requirements/documents.
Communicate and validate requirements with relevant stakeholders.
Perform data discovery, analysis, and modeling.
Create project plans, project charters and project schedules.
Maintain project objectives.
Report on project progress, offer viable solutions and opportunities as they ariseImplement change practices.
Lead meetings and set expectations for the project team.
Maintain budget.
Report on projects to all levels of staff and management.
Ideal Candidate's Background Includes:
Applicants whose experience and background best match the ideal experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and education are considered ideal candidates for the position.
To determine the top candidates, each applicant will be assessed based on the ideal candidate criteria as listed below.
Ideal
Experience:
5 years of experience in systems analysis, development, or software implementations.
Experience eliciting requirements, evaluating, selecting, and implementing various technology solutions.
Experience reviewing application portfolio to ensure technology solutions are properly utilized and leveraged across the organization.
Project Management experience with technology solution implementations.
PMP certification preferred.
Ideal Skills and Abilities:
Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives.
Propose solution recommendations and alternatives to satisfy customer needs.
Collaborate with enterprise architecture, information security, applications, and infrastructure teams to produce optimal designs.
Produce technical documentation of systems and architectures.
Ensure solutions are scalable and non-redundant.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
Act as a collaborative liaison between IT and the businessEstablish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
Ideal Knowledge:
Methods and techniques of evaluating business needs and developing information systems solutions including functional requirements development and systems and procedures analysis.
Principles and practices of project development, administration, and management including project cost estimating, RFP development, contracts negotiation and management.
Emerging technologies and software, cloud computing, multi-platform applications and software.
ITIL principles and practices.
Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Ideal Training and Education:
Equivalent to a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
Substitution Directly related experience may be substituted for the college requirement on the basis of one and one-half years of experience for one year of education to a maximum of four years.
Job Type:
Full-TimeLocation:
5750 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA, CaliforniaAgency:
Information TechnologyAbout the Company:
Santa Clara Valley Water District.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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