The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Project Manager 2 - Utah Area PSD

Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in project management or related field with experience in publishing, video, or event production.
  • 5+ years of project management experience, or 3+ years with a Master's degree.
  • Experience managing medium to large scale projects with multiple deliverables in various languages.
  • Strong communication skills for interaction with senior-level leaders.
  • Proven leadership in cross-functional team environments, acting as a liaison among stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Manage stakeholder expectations and coordinate client and resource teams.
  • Plan, direct, and oversee projects of medium to high complexity.
  • Ensure projects include all necessary work for successful completion.
  • Guarantee timely project completion through effective schedule management.
  • Maintain project budgets to ensure completion within approved financial limits.
  • Ensure project quality meets the intended needs and standards.
  • Utilize personal skills to optimize project team effectiveness.
  • Facilitate timely communication and information flow among all project participants.
  • Identify and manage project risks proactively.
  • Oversee procurement processes for necessary goods and services.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on diverse project types including web, mobile, and production.
  • Engagement in a collaborative environment with senior-level leaders.
  • Access to standard processes that enhance project management efficiency.
  • Potential for professional development through project management certification opportunities.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Purpose:
  • Clearly understand and communicate project objectives and goals
  • Organize the needed resources to meet project requirements
  • Owns project-level scope, schedule, and budget
  • Ensure projects adhere to Church process and policy equivalent to the sphere of work
  • Act as project generalist - may be asked to manage a range of project types (e.g. web, mobile, meeting support, production etc.)
  • Engage when multiple deliverables coalesce into a cohesive whole and end-to-end management is needed


Responsibilities

  • Stakeholder Management: Understands, coordinates, and manages client and resource team expectations.
  • Integration Management: Plans, directs, manages, monitors, controls, and closes projects of medium to high complexity.
  • Scope Management: Uses standard processes to ensure projects/programs include all and only the work required to complete the project successfully.
  • Schedule Management: Uses standard processes to ensure the timely completion of projects.
  • Cost Management: Uses standard processes to ensure projects are completed within the approved budget.
  • Quality Management: Uses standard processes to ensure the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
  • Human Resource Management: Uses personal skills and standard processes to make the most effective use of the project team.
  • Communications Management: Uses standard processes to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. Provides the critical links among people (including senior-level leaders), ideas, and information that are necessary for success.
  • Risk Management: Uses standard process to identify, analyze, and respond to project risk.
  • Procurement Management: Uses standard processes to acquire goods and services from providers.


Qualifications

Required:
  • Bachelor's Degree in a project management related field with publishing, video, or event production experience.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in project management or Master's degree and 3 years of experience.
  • Manage scope, schedule, and budget of projects that are typically of medium to large scale complexity, with many deliverables in multiple languages including contracts, logistics, vendors, intellectual property, and deliverables that involve production and publishing.
  • Ability to communicate and interact with senior-level leaders.
  • Ability to demonstrate leadership of cross-functional teams serving as a key liaison between leaders, vendors, production companies, and internal department stakeholders.


Preferred:

PMP certification or other project management certification recognized in specific industries.

About The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has established congregations and built temples worldwide. With over 16 million members, it is the fourth-largest Christian denomination in the United States and the largest denomination originating in the Latter Day Saint movement. The church's teachings emphasize the importance of family, traditional gender roles, and missionary work. The church also operates a number of charitable and educational institutions, including Brigham Young University, the largest religious university in the United States.
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