# Project Manager III - Technical

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $108,200.00 - $162,400.00
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking a Project Manager III - Technical to join our team. As a Project Manager III - Technical, you will assist in the planning, organizing, monitoring, and managing information technology projects through completion.

Responsibilities:

- Plan, organize, and manage all phases of assigned IT projects, including scope definition, scheduling, resource coordination, and delivery tracking.

- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, work breakdown structures, estimates, and key delivery milestones.

- Monitor and communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and issues to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and timely escalation.

- Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensures collaboration between technical, business, and vendor partners.

- Responsible for ensuring project deliverables meet quality standards, technical requirements, and compliance expectations.

- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, support backlog clarity, and promote effective teamwork and continuous improvement.

- Identify and remove project blockers, evaluate alternative solutions, and drive alignment on decisions.

- Maintain accurate project documentation, including requirements, test plans, decision logs, and change requests.

- Support testing, validation, and user acceptance processes to ensure successful implementation and smooth transition to operations.

- Manage project budgets, vendor deliverables, and change orders to ensure financial accountability.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field

- 4+ years of project management experience

- Leadership and project management skills that drive scope, schedule, and delivery outcomes

- Deep understanding of project management methods, including Agile, hybrid, and traditional approaches

- Proficient in development cycles, system processes, software lifecycle standards, and large-scale technology delivery

- Critical thinking skills that apply things such as analyzing problems, evaluating technical constraints, identifying and recommending effective solutions at scale

- Experience using project and productivity tools (e.g., Jira, MS Project, Excel, collaboration platforms)

- Ability to influence, motivate, and coordinate across cross-functional teams

- Works effectively both independently and within team environments

- Ability to plan complex work, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines

- Ability to maintain accurate documentation and support administrative, reporting, and governance requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

- Scrum Master Certification

- Project Management Professional (Project+, PMP, Prince2) Certification

- Experience in technology and/or higher education

- Experience with Agile development

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual

- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual

- 11 paid holidays

- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Agile
- Project Management
- IT Project Management
- Leadership
- Collaboration
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Communication
- Documentation

### Nice to have
- Scrum Master Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Agile Development
- Technology
- Higher Education

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