IT Project Manager 2

Please note: This role is a two-year, fixed-term position.

This role is hybrid-eligible and will require candidates to be on-site at the Stanford Redwood City campus at least 2 days/week.

Stanford University is one of the world’s premier academic and research institutions, devoting tremendous intellectual and physical resources toward the betterment of humanity.

As a major Bay Area employer, Stanford seeks people committed to excellence and to improving our world.

In turn, the university is committed to supporting its employees as they develop their careers and enrich their lives.

University IT (UIT), part of the Business Affairs organization at Stanford University, is dedicated to delivering world-class service and technological solutions to advance research, teaching and learning, administration, and healthcare.

This IT Project Manager 2 position reports to the UIT Project Management Office (UIT PMO), working with a group of technical project managers assembled into multidisciplinary teams to complete a broad range of critical University-wide technology projects, including Discovery and Implementation projects for enterprise applications and system integrations across domain areas like collaboration or content management, cloud services, data analytics and reporting, research computing, or information security or privacy. The project manager is responsible for managing multiple medium and large technical projects, leveraging project management best practices to drive continuous improvement and ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes. The project manager is expected to weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders, act with the highest professionalism, and exercise independent judgment and decision-making.

Desired experience includes:

A proven track record of motivating a diverse team, partnering effectively with sponsors and decision-makers, and identifying and efficiently managing project issues and risks, while successfully managing projects to timely delivery and within budgetary expectations.

The position typically focused 80% on project leadership and 20% on technical contribution.

The project manager is expected to manage multiple projects, such as vendor selection and implementation, SaaS projects, development, and IT infrastructure projects, and application upgrades simultaneously.

Solid experience with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio), Smartsheet, ServiceNow Project Portfolio Manager (PPM), Zoom, and Slack.

with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle HCM, PeopleSoft Student and HR Administration.

with managing IT application, technical infrastructure, and system integration projects.

Knowledge of quality assurance, testing practices, and data integration across different technical platforms.

Understanding of Web application architecture and the technology tiers that support them, system architectures, application integration, and object oriented languages.