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Project Manager

City of Racine, WI
Racine, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 2/11/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2025

Salary : $25.04 Hourly

Location : Racine, WI

Job Type : Part-Time

Job Number : 202500009

Department : Information Systems

Opening Date : 01 / 24 / 2025

Closing Date : Continuous

Job Description

Introduction :

The City of Racine is fully committed to employing a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive work environment that embraces everyone's unique contributions, experiences and values. We offer an empowered work environment that encourages creativity, initiative and professional growth. The MIS department supports the city's network, software, and devices. We manage a 2.5 million dollar budget and support over 700 city employees.

Position Purpose

Under the direction of the Chief Information Officer, the Project Manager performs project management duties for the Wisconsin PSC CPF Digital Connectivity and Navigators grant for the City of Racine. They are responsible for running the grant project, scheduling and overseeing the Digital Navigators, ensuring compliance, and gathering data required by the granting agency. The Project Manager has excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and can successfully manage the project.

Essential Duties

Essential Duties

  • Maintain project schedule, scope, budget, milestones, deliverables, and communication.
  • Manage project staff, develop schedules, and resolve basic conflicts.
  • Oversee, adjust, and document all project aspects.
  • Collects, analyzes, and summarizes information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports.
  • Organize and oversee meetings with stakeholders and departmental staff to discuss project goals and progress.
  • Responsible for overseeing the completion of grant staff training.
  • Resolve project conflicts through clear collaboration with affected parties.
  • Maintains a consistent and reliable attendance record.

Environmental / Working Conditions of the Position

  • Sitting at a desk in an air-conditioned / heated office or working from home.
  • Opportunities to work remotely part of the time. Job will require driving to multiple locations in the city.
  • Qualifications

    Minimum Qualifications :

  • Five (4) years project management or business analyst experience OR an Associate's degree from an accredited university with three (2) years of project or grant management
  • Preferred qualifications :

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in Project Management OR current project management certification from national Project Management organizations (PMI, IPMA, etc.)
  • Experience working with non-profit organizations
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required :

  • Demonstrated project and staff management skills. Proven track record of successful project delivery, from inception through implementation.
  • Skilled at meeting grant requirements, including ensuring compliance.
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office programs : Word, Excel & Outlook Mail as well as Microsoft Project, or equivalent project planning software platform.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Ability to make independent decisions, establish priorities, and control the flow of work.
  • Ability to maintain records, prepare reports and correspondence independently, and following written and / or oral instructions with attention to detail.
  • Tactful, courteous, and diplomatic with all they work with.
  • Ability to schedule staff, meetings, and training with multiple individuals.
  • Process oriented with strong organizational skills.
  • Proactive problem-solving skills and confidence to work through new projects and unprecedented challenges with and without explicit direction
  • Must be a motivated, high energetic person who is business oriented, can build relationships, articulate concepts and process to solve business problems.
  • Effective problem-solving skills exhibited by effective collaboration among project team members to resolve issues and drive the project forward. Strong reasoning, negotiation, decision making, and consensus-building skills.
  • Supplemental Information

    Equipment Used

  • Telephones, computer with associated peripherals, and software.
  • Expected Work Schedule

    The schedule will be determined after hiring. Applicant must be available to meet with the City of Racine employees and others during the day from Monday - Friday 8 : 00 a.m. - 5 : 00 p.m. and possibly in the evening. Job is no more than 12 hours per week.

    This job description is intended to identify essential duties and also illustrates other types of duties that may be assigned. It should not be interpreted as describing all of the duties that will be required of an employee or be used to limit the nature and extent of assignments that an individual is required to perform. In addition to the responsibilities and duties listed, it is expected that employees maintain a consistent and reliable attendance record. Job descriptions are subject to revision at any time at the discretion of the City of Racine.

    The City of Racine is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.

    No Benefits Offered

    This job requires meeting people at various locations within the City of Racine. Do you live within commuting distance from the city?

    How many years of experience do you have being a project manager?

  • Less than one year
  • One to two years
  • Three to four years
  • Five or more years
  • No experience
  • How would you rate your Microsoft Suite knowledge (Teams, Word, Excel, SharePoint, Project, etc.)

  • Excellent
  • Good
  • Average
  • Basic
  • None
  • Have you ever managed a grant funded project?

    Please briefly describe the largest, most complex project (non-grant) project managed. Please describe the project, how many different groups / partners / people were involved, what was the project length, what were your responsibilities, and was the project successful. Please be as specific and thorough as possible.

    Required Question

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