Project Manager Info Management (E5862) at APN Consulting, Inc

Location: Piscataway NJ-Hybrid-3 days in office
Duration: FTE
Project Manager Information Management
Job Description 
The Project Manager, Information Management, is responsible for ensuring the functionality and usability of various applications and Web Sites that support over 450K members and customers and 40K+ volunteers and assisting in the strategy and technology functions. Responsibilities include creating business requirements or user stories, overseeing IT development, coordinating and performing user acceptance testing, and ensuring the functionality of all backend-supporting applications that impact members, potential members, geographic units, and volunteer unit leaders.

The role typically reports to the Sr. Director Information Management. This position works under minimal guidance. Many assignments are self-initiated and self-supervised and will have an organization-wide impact. The incumbent in this position designs innovative solutions and leads, develops, and implements programs, processes, and projects that impact the member, customer, and volunteer user experience interacting with all levels of staff and volunteers and can lead cross-functional teams through a project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the functionality and usability of any assigned online application or website. This can include the Business Platform (IBP), various volunteer interfacing application.
• Identifies and facilitates ways to innovate and improve the member and volunteer user experience by working collaboratively and cooperatively , with volunteers, and with other OUs
• Elicits requirements from users (staff and volunteers) and creates detailed functional requirements documents, user stories, wireframes, data flow diagrams, sample reports, or other similar artifacts.
• Contributes to the Strategy in areas of online applications
• Acts as the interface and advocate between the staff and volunteers, the IT Business Partner and Sr Director of Information Management
• Proactively identifies and communicates issues and manages them to resolution
• Manages and performs User Acceptance Testing for associated projects
• Participates in the Information Technology Coordination and Oversight and vTools Committee activities

Qualifications
 Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience Req
• Master's or other advanced degree Pref

Work Experience

• 4-7 years hands-on experience performing detailed business analysis and requirements specifications Req
• 4-7 years Project Management Pref
• 4-7 years Data Privacy and GDPR regulations Pref

Licenses and Certifications

• PMI - Project Management Institute Certification Pref

Licenses and Certifications

• Data Privacy/Cyber Security Pref

Skills and Requirements

• Exceptional skills in project management and managing multiple/competing projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in establishing appropriate protocols for dealing with members, volunteers, and staff; observing necessary discretion with confidential material
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent listening, communication, and influencing skills to be able to communicate effectively with members, volunteers, and staff of a global organization
• Demonstrated critical thinking and translation of business needs into technology solutions
• Demonstrated judgment skills to set priorities without supervision
• Be a strong team player and be able to engage team members in achieving shared goals
• Must be able to proactively identify problems, assess their impact, and take appropriate action. Problem-solving ranges from routine to complex
• Must have the ability to identify opportunities and areas of improvement and implement means and ways for their achievement
• Must have the ability to analyze project requests and clarify specific tasks, next steps, and deliverables
• Possess a combination of education and experience that enables confidence to work with senior staff and volunteers in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment that requires excellence in execution and strict attention to detail
• Be a technologically savvy knowledge worker who seeks out technology solutions to business challenges and maintains knowledge of significant technology trends and a wide variety of tools and applications relevant to MGA business requirements.
• Must be able to present to varied audiences
• Must be able to manage meeting logistics
• Business fluency in a foreign language is helpful but not required for this position
• Knowledge of the Project Life Cycle and Agile methodology
• Although travel is minimal, the candidate must be willing and able to travel internationally/domestically
• Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, Web Conferencing (WebEx, GoogleMeet), and Web Application development offerings