Project Manager

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Tampa, FL

Hillsborough County

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Full-time

Overview: <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Manages projects and assigned staff of varying size, scope and impact from single business units up to multi-component projects with high value and organizational visibility within large divisions and departments.<br /><br /></span></span> <div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><u>Core Competencies</u></strong></span></div> </div> <div> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong>Customer Commitment</strong>&nbsp;- Proactively seeks to understand the needs of the customer and provide the highest standards of service.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong>Dedication to Professionalism and Integrity</strong>&nbsp;- Demonstrates and promotes fair, honest, professional and ethical behaviors that establishes trust throughout the organization and with the public we serve.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong>Organizational Excellence</strong>&nbsp;- Takes ownership for excellence through one's personal effectiveness and dedication to the continuous improvement of our operations.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong>Success through Teamwork</strong>&nbsp;- Collaborates and builds partnerships through trust and the open exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives to achieve organizational goals.</span></li> </ul> </div> </div>
Responsibilities: <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Performs project management work by managing, coordinating and implementing small projects or parts of larger complex projects.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Directs and coordinates activities concerned with the implementation of a projects.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Prepares or assists in the preparation of contract drafts, requests for proposal, and other related documents for review.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Manages project execution to ensure adherence to plan, schedule and scope.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Identifies, tracks, monitors and communicates project-related tasks, issues, scope changes, variances and contingencies that may arise during the project implementation.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Monitors project budget, monitors status of allocated funds and controls expense.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Prepares reports and maintains project documentation.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Performs other related duties as required.</span></li> </ul>
Requirements: <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Graduation from an accredited four-year degree-granting college or university.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Three (3) years of program/project management experience directly related to the position duties.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">An equivalent combination of education (not less than possession of a high school diploma/GED), training, and experience that would reasonably be expected to provide the job-related competencies noted below.</span></li> </ul> <br /> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><u>Job Specifications</u></strong></span></div> <div> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Knowledge of the principles and practices of project management.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Knowledge of the processes, activities, requirements and objectives of the functional area to which assigned.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Skill in developing tracking systems to monitor work progress.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Ability to manage multiple tasks and solve problems involving several variables or unique situations.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Ability to manage the details of projects, track activities and meet deadlines.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Ability to collect, organize and analyze data and make logical decisions.</span></li> </ul> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><u>Physical Requirements</u></strong></span></div> <div> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">This job is performed in a professional office environment using standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and fax machines.</span></li> </ul> </div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><u>Work Category</u></strong></span></div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong>Sedentary Work</strong>&nbsp;- Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.&nbsp; Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.&nbsp; Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><u>Emergency Management Responsibilities</u></strong></span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">In the event of an emergency or disaster, an employee may be required to respond promptly to duties and responsibilities as assigned by the employee's department, the County's Office of Emergency Management, or County Administration.&nbsp; Such assignments may be for before, during or after the emergency/disaster.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><u>Additional Job Requirements</u></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">A department, depending on the nature of its mission and operations, may require that employees in all or certain positions in this job classification:</span></div> <div> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Maintain the ability to pass the background checks required for the position.&nbsp; These background checks may include but are not limited to:</span> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Criminal History Background Check using Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Criminal Justice Information Services (SACWIS)</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Level 1 and Level 2 Background screening (Ch. 435 Florida Statutes)</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Child Abuse, Abandonment and Neglect Record Check using the State Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS)</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Sex Offender and Sexual Predator record check using the list maintained by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE)</span></li> </ul> </li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Possess the necessary job related licence(s) or certification(s) that may include possession of a Florida Driver's License (Class E) or an applicable Commercial Driver's License (CDL).</span></span></li> </ul> </div>