IT Project Lead

IT Project Lead

Valley Water

Salary: $129,916.80 - $166,358.40 Annually

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Number: 01731-E

Location: CA, CA

Department: Information Technology

Closing: Continuous

Description
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 arise
• Implement 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 business
• Establish 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.

Required License or Certificate

Possession of, or ability to obtain, an appropriate, valid California driver's license. Individuals who do not meet the driver's license requirement due to a disability will be considered for a reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.
PMP certification highly desired
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IT Projects and Business Operations Unit (Position Code 217)COVID-19 vaccination requirement:
*To protect our most valuable assets, our employees, as well as the communities we serve, Valley Water requires all newly hired Valley Water personnel to be fully vaccinated (for COVID -19) or to be formally excused from the requirement through the **reasonable accommodation process (for details, see bottom of job posting) Valley Water Telework Program: Eligibility for telework will depend on the type of work performed, operational needs, and the ability for the employee to perform the essential functions of their job duties while teleworking. Employment with Valley Water requires employees to live within 150 miles of their primary physical work location located in San Jose, California by their start date. This position is eligible for a hybrid telework schedule, typically working 40% remote and 60% onsite.

Selection Process

(1) The selection process may include one or more of the following: application review, application assessment, performance exercise, written exercise and/or interview.
(2) The Employment Application, Qualifying Information Questions and/or Supplemental Questions will be evaluated based on the ideal candidate criteria listed above. Resumes are highly recommended.

NOTE: Position and start date is subject to availability of funds. Valley Water retains the right to repost this position as deemed necessary.
Consideration may be given to existing applicant pools within the same classification.
Covid-19 Vaccination Requirement:
Fully vaccinated means (1) it has been at least two weeks since a person has completed the entire recommended series of a COVID-19 vaccine, and (2) the person has provided proof of vaccination in a form consistent with the requirements for verification of vaccine status in the State of California's July 26, 2021, Public Health Officer Order.

**Limited Exemptions to Vaccination Requirement
An individual who has been provided a job offer may request a reasonable accommodation to the vaccination requirement if they:
1. Have a contraindication recognized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or by the vaccine's manufacturer to every approved COVID-19 vaccine. A contraindication means a condition that makes vaccination inadvisable;
2. Have a disability and are requesting an exception as a reasonable accommodation based upon this disability; or,
3. Object to COVID-19 vaccination based on their sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.
Valley Water's Equal Opportunity Non-Discrimination Policy is available for review upon request.

Valley Water will make reasonable efforts in the examination process to accommodate persons with disabilities. Please advise Human Resources in advance of any special needs by calling 408-630-2260.

Please be aware that once submitted all application materials become the property of Valley Water and will not be returned. Human Resources staff are not authorized to make copies of application materials for applicants.

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