What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Product Manager, Financial Aid position at University of Idaho?
Technical Product Manager, Financial Aid
Posting Number: SP004753P
Division/College: Vice Provost for Strategic Enrollment Management
Department: Student Financial Aid
Location: Moscow
Posting Context Statement:
Position Overview:
This position coordinates the planning, design, and development of software applications. This position is responsible for the success of a product or family of products. This position will work closely with cross-functional business leaders, peers and technology leadership to ensure systems are positioned for the growth of the university. This includes performing or supervising analysis, design, development, and testing, to ensure the deployment of reliable, secure, and scalable business-critical applications and platforms. This position works in a collaborative environment with business and technology owners and fosters a culture of teamwork and support across the university and within the technology team.
This position is a blend of product and project leadership and will require partnering with cross functional teams to achieve high performance levels with application services and support the alignment of team activities with the universitys business needs.
Duties may include:
This position is a blend of product and project leadership and will require partnering with cross functional teams to achieve high performance levels with application services and support the alignment of team activities with the universitys business needs.
Duties may include:
- Understand and represent user needs
- Define a vision and roadmap for a product
- Align stakeholders around the vision for the product
- Prioritize product features and capabilities
- Manage a product backlog
- Oversee development stages and evaluate progress
- Serve as a liaison between department stakeholders and the Office of Information Technology development team
- Collaborate across teams to empower independent decision-making
- Administer applications
- Provide high level reporting to departments across the university
- Other duties as assigned
Required Experience:
- Three years working with software applications in a technical or functional support role
- Prioritizing work and ensuring projects and workloads are completed on time
Required Education:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
Required Other:
- None
Additional Preferred:
- Five or more years of experience working with software applications in a technical or functional leadership role
- Bachelors degree in Business, Management of Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field
- Agile Certification (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master or similar)
- ITIL Certification
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Experience with:
- Using enterprise reporting tools such as Argos or SQL
- Higher education technology
- Understanding the relationships between ERP, CRM, CMS, third-party solutions, relational databases
- Source Code Control / Versioning tools (e.g., Git).
- Unit-test frameworks, testing automation and CI/CD tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Selenium, JUnit, GitLab CI/CD)
Physical Requirements & Working Conditions:
- None
Degree Requirement:
Listed degree qualification is required at time of application
FLSA Status: Exempt
Employee Category: Exempt
Pay Range: $85,000 annually or higher depending upon education and experience
Type of Appointment: _of_Appointment
FTE:
1
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Funding:
A visa sponsorship is available for the position listed in this vacancy: No
Posting Date: 02/13/2025
Closing Date:
Open Until Filled: Yes
Special Instructions to Applicants:
This position is posted as open until filled, however, applications submitted on or before March 2, 2025 will receive priority consideration.
Position will remain open until a suitable pool of candidates is identified.
Applicants:
Please use your cover letter to explain how your work experience, skills, and abilities meet both the required and preferred qualifications as listed in the position description. Your letter will be used to demonstrate your communication and writing skills to determine your ranking among the other applicants for this position.
If you would like to view a full copy of the job description, please reach out to the search coordinator at vhutchinson@uidaho.edu
Position will remain open until a suitable pool of candidates is identified.
Applicants:
Please use your cover letter to explain how your work experience, skills, and abilities meet both the required and preferred qualifications as listed in the position description. Your letter will be used to demonstrate your communication and writing skills to determine your ranking among the other applicants for this position.
If you would like to view a full copy of the job description, please reach out to the search coordinator at vhutchinson@uidaho.edu
Applicant Resources: https://www.uidaho.edu/human-resources/careers/applicant-resources
Background Check Statement:
Applicants who are selected as final possible candidates must be able to pass a criminal background check.
To apply, visit https://uidaho.peopleadmin.com/postings/47203
The University of Idaho is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The University is committed to the policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status as protected under applicable federal, state or local law in employment or educational programs.
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Salary : $85,000
