IT Project Manager

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is the premier not-for-profit organization for women's health care. Comprised of over 58,000 physician-members who are experts in women's health care, ACOG provides to its members the highest quality education opportunities, practice-oriented resources, research, advocacy, and organizational support. With headquarters located in S.W. Washington, DC, we provide a positive, supportive work environment, excellent benefits and so much more! To learn more about our organization, please visit us at www.acog.org.

The College is currently seeking a IT Project Manager to manage projects and deliver solutions that have a significant technology component on time and meeting financial objectives through a disciplined approach to business analysis and project management. This includes both interdepartmental and cross-functional teams in all project phases from requirements definition and solution design to testing, deployment and end user training.

Requirements:

• Perform task management, risk management, requirements gathering and testing for projects being managed
• Drive projects to successful completion (deployment, training, documentation, support) while working within the constraints and timeline of the business
• Actively track each aspect of project performance against schedules, ensuring that milestones are being met and obstacles and issues are identified and brought to the designated team member to ensure that project goals are achieved
• Work with other IT Solutions Team members to develop plans/schedules/deliverables to meet delivery dates for Information Technology solutions serving as the manager or member of various projects
• Identify and escalate issues and risks early to minimize impact to the overall project schedule
• Communicate with business SMEs to ensure expectations are kept in line with project objectives & status
• Assist in the development, management and continuous improvement of business analysis and project management processes & templates
• Monitor project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports & recommending actions
• Analyze complex problems and create innovative solutions by applying analytic and critical thinking skills
• Manage the collection, analysis, validation, and documentation of business needs and requirements
• Facilitate requirements gathering discussions to capture, translate, analyze and summarize information presented by the participants into requirements
• Create various scope options dependent on priorities and cost/benefit expectations
• Develop and maintain solid understanding of core technologies in use at ACOG and researches new technologies that could be leveraged to address organizational needs
• Document current and future business processes
• Participate in the definition of acceptance criteria and quality metrics to help drive adoption
• Proactively identify technology business needs as they relate to new implementations as well as enhancements to current services
• Facilitate the design of integrated solutions (process, technical & organizational)
• Ensure the end to end solution is proven to deliver the required business results
• Drive adoption of the designed processes and solution use with stakeholders, leading knowledge transfer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in business or Information Technology or an equivalent combination of education & experience
• PM certification strongly desired
• Minimum of three years of experience leading and/or facilitating technology implementations with at least 2 years of experience directly related to business analysis and/or business consulting
• Excellent meeting facilitation and presentation skills required
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Visio
• MS Project Management experience/knowledge preferred

EEO Statement ACOG is an EEO employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. As a federal government contractor and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and Executive Orders, the College takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants and employees covered are not discriminated against because of their race, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. For more information about your equal employment opportunity rights, please view this poster: EEO is the Law. The College also participates in E-Verify.

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