Web Project Manager – HigherEdJobs

Job Summary:

University Marketing, within the Office of Strategic Communication, is seeking a full-time Web Project Manager to help the team build innovative, well-engineered websites while informing the online strategy for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We are a supportive unit that offers continuous learning opportunities and a collaborative environment.

University Marketing’s dynamic team creates websites that serve the entire UW-Madison campus. The university’s gateway site (www.wisc.edu), the official UW WordPress theme, and the campus news site and alumni magazine are a few of the web properties in our portfolio. More recently we’ve launched several showcase sites including exploreuw.wisc.edu, origins.wisc.edu, and 175.wisc.edu. Our ideal candidate will embrace working with digital and user experience designers, developers, and writers to create and improve UW websites.

Our team currently uses a combination of agile and waterfall methodologies to manage multiple concurrent projects, in collaboration with colleagues throughout the university. We are looking for a talented project manager to help systematize our project management processes, as well as transition to our newly-acquired project management platform, Asana.

Our team values organization, flexibility and a sense of humor. You will collaborate with a growing team of designers, user experience experts, and developers. This position reports to the Web Director who values team players with a can-do attitude. Hybrid or remote work environment, up to 100% remote.

Responsibilities:

Provides technical and analytical guidance for information technology (IT) projects. Manages vendor workflow and deliverables for multi-unit projects and facilitates project status communication to clients to support IT developments necessary for mission related functions.

• 15% Serves as a main point of contact for clients in the development and implementation of moderately complex projects
• 60% Provides moderately advanced technical and analytical guidance to project teams. Identifies and estimates tasks and applies established project management, process improvement, and budget and cost analysis methodologies to identify obstacles and drive project completion
• 5% Drafts and delivers project status communications and reports
• 5% Sets and manages the budget, scope, and timeline for projects
• 5% Participates in the initial project conception stage along with a client in order to better meet the needs of the client and to translate those expectations to web team colleagues
• 5% Communicates effectively with team designers, developers, and writers to ensure they are focused on the right tasks at the right time
• 5% Works closely with Web Director to determine team priorities and roadmap

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background – people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Education:

Preferred
Associate’s Degree

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:
* Minimum of two years experience managing website/web application projects.
* Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and website development processes.
* Experience managing project expectations between team members and clients by setting project goals, scope, and timeline, as well as regularly reporting on project status and forecasting team workload.
* Demonstrated ability to manage concurrent projects and consistently meet deadlines.
* Experience using Asana, Monday, GitLab, Jira, or similar project management platform.
* Strong leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Superior attention to detail and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with both Agile and waterfall project management methodologies.
* Project management certification such as Scrum certification or Project Management Professional (PMP)? certification.

We recognize that qualified applicants come from a variety of backgrounds, life experiences, and levels of educational access. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match all of the qualifications listed above.

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

This position may be hybrid or fully remote.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Terminal, 12 month appointment.
This position has the possibility to be extended or converted to an ongoing appointment based on need and/or funding

Salary:

Minimum $77,100 Maximum $100,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
This position offers a generous benefits package, including more than 5 weeks of paid time off every year, participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System pension plan, comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, paid professional development opportunities, a flexible work environment and more. Learn more at https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/.

Additional Information:

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the first day of employment. University sponsorship is not available for this position.

How to Apply:

Click ‘Apply Now’ to start the application process and create a UW Jobs profile. You will be prompted to upload a cover letter and resume. Your cover letter should highlight your experience, knowledge, and skills as they relate to the qualifications listed for this position.

Contact:

Kory Breuer
kory.breuer@wisc.edu
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

Official Title:

IT Project Manager I (B)(IT148)

Department(s):

A02-GENERAL SERVICES/VC FOR UNIV RELATIONS/MARKETING

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Terminal

Job Number:

292804-AS

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website: https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/

Employment will require a criminal background check. It will also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.

The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).

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