Project Manager

Position Overview:

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Are you looking for a new opportunity where you can make the difference in the lives of students and faculty? We’re always looking for highly talented individuals to join our team – people who think big, care deeply, and believe in being the difference in their work and community.

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This is your next opportunity to join an organization that invests in their employees’ career journey by diversifying their skills, deepening their expert knowledge, encouraging a healthy work-life balance, focusing on personal wellbeing, providing leadership training, and sustaining a culture of respect and inclusion.

This position will report to the Director of Business Services in University Relations, this individual will be responsible for the management of high-level University Relations projects, programs, and initiatives from conception through execution. Working closely with the Vice President of University Relations & General Counsel, the University Relations Leadership Team, and senior leaders within the various units and functions across Marquette, the role will support and coordinate initiatives, promoting effective and efficient execution and foster collaboration among cross-functional teams.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Translate strategy into a project charter, including budget, stakeholders, timelines, milestones, deliverables, etc and oversee implementation of plan.
2. Project management of key activities and initiatives, including determining and assigning roles to project team members, facilitating strategic conversations and project meetings, managing timelines, project scope and project deliverables, and developing executive reports of project initiatives.
3. Determine and implement appropriate method or tool for data collection when project requires research, i.e., surveys, audit, focus groups. Synthesize and report information into understandable and useful findings to inform project direction.
4. Raise issues to project owner in a timely manner, facilitating the timely resolution of project challenges.
5. Provide ongoing project communications, ensuring that stakeholders are informed of strategy, budgets, milestones, and deadlines.
6. Establish effective mechanisms to communicate and report on progress of initiatives, projects and programs.
7. Prioritize projects among competing demands to ensure proper focus and allocation of time and resources.
8. Act as a resource to the Vice President and other University Relations staff in preparation for key meetings and events.
9. Work collaboratively with cross-functional, high-performance teams, maintaining collaborative relationships with stakeholders.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in the areas of business management, project management, communication, marketing or a related discipline. 
• Two years of project management experience requiring professional experiences navigating, connecting and managing cross-functional project groups
• Experience in driving project management tasks, including and tracking project charters, project plans, status reports and mitigating business risk by highlighting critical issues to program leadership early. 
• Highly structured work style; able to translate strategic concepts and direction into discrete actionable plans. 
• Confidently engage others, establish strong relationships, rally people around a common goal, and maintain effective partnerships with a wide variety of people and senior leaders, both internally and externally. 
• Ability to handle sensitive situations, confidential information, and to manage conflict effectively. 
• Strong presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal. 
• Demonstrated ability to use curiosity and problem-solving skills to obtain necessary information to connect components of the project charter, including identification of stakeholders. 
• Able to work effectively in a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment. 
• Working knowledge of project management and research tools and techniques.