What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Assistant - IT position at Kansas City Public Schools?
Implement, manage, coordinate, and ensure successful and timely completion of KCPS projects in coordination with multiple departments. Assesses project risk on a regular basis, taking appropriate action to ensure project objectives are timely and successfully met.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES : include the following:
- Provides project management skills for the IT Department and any other projects across the district including, but not limited to, project planning, leading cross-functional teams in implementation, etc.
- Create and distribute draft agendas, provide advance materials, and execute follow-up for meetings and events. Extensively document project related activities and findings, quantify results, and communicate project results and conclusions to stakeholders, collaborators, and district leaders.
- Conduct rigorous data analysis and external research to support leadership decision-making regarding projects and priorities.
- Work with executive staff, cabinet members and others to ensure project priorities are in alignment with the District's core goals.
- Manage data collection and dissemination for special projects and make sure data is updated, timely, and relevant.
- Performs project management duties, including planning, prioritizing, and coordinating.
- Determines and deploys resources required to successfully complete projects on schedule and within budget, ensuring project objectives fulfilled.
- Maintains and provides regular comprehensive status reports and project schedules.
- Builds relationships and liaises with various central office departments, school leaders, teachers, and community partners as appropriate.
- Leads and/or attends various meetings to communicate information, advise, recommend and make presentations created to present technical proposals/plans/documentation.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: No
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Working knowledge of project management methodology.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, including keen attention to detail, and the ability to adhere to strict deadlines.
- Exceptional writing and oral communication skills.
- Excellent time-management and a willingness to work non-standard hours.
- Ability to work successfully alone or on a team.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS : The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job requires that the employee be able to: sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, use hands, fingers, and reach with hands and fingers; bend, stoop, and lift objects of at least ten pounds. Job requires the employee occasionally to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Visual ability requires mono and color vision, close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
