IT Project Manager I
Location: Redwood City, California
Country: United States
Category: Project Management
Workplace Location: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: March 3, 2026
Job ID: 644190
Job Description
Job Title: IT Project Manager I
Location: Redwood City, CA; onsite 2-3 days/week
Duration: 12 months
Pay Rate: $58 to $62.06/hour (DOE)
Position Overview:
This IT Project Manager position reports to the UIT Project Management Office (UIT PMO), working with a group of technical project managers assembled into multidisciplinary teams to complete a broad range of critical University-wide technology projects, including Discovery and Implementation projects for enterprise applications and system integrations across domain areas like collaboration or content management, cloud services, data analytics and reporting, research computing, or information security or privacy. The project manager is responsible for managing multiple large and complex technical projects, leveraging project management best practices to drive continuous improvement and ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes. The project manager is expected to weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders, act with the highest professionalism, and exercise independent judgment and decision-making.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 8 to 10 years of related experience in management of projects with extensive size/complexity and moderate performance risk, including project planning, scheduling, tracking, and budgeting, or a combination of education and relevant experience
- Highly effective written and oral communication skills to address a wide variety of audiences
- Ability to productively assemble, engage, and lead cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated project management ability to employ integration, scope time management, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement components
- Ability to balance customer expectations with project reality
- Demonstrated resilience, diplomacy, influence, relationship building, and problem-solving skills in a variety of situations
- Keen grasp of interpersonal and impact awareness
- Depth of knowledge in technical discipline/domain needed to deliver projects
Preferred Qualifications:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is strongly desired
- Proven experience with Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project management methodologies is strongly desired
- Knowledge of project management tools and software development lifecycle (SDLC) strongly desired
- Strong analytical skills and attention to details
- Proven experience in developing and maintaining complex and integrated project plans with proper work breakdown structure (WBS) strongly desired
- Proven experience in people, change, risk, and conflict management is strongly desired
- Proven ability to build relationships and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve results in a consensus-driven environment strongly desired
- Ability to lead and direct a team of internal and external technical and business staff and align technical needs with business goals is strongly desired
- Solid leadership, negotiation, persuasion, and facilitation skills strongly desired
- Ability to navigate stressful situations and make/negotiate decisions on complex problems strongly desired
- Solid experience with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio), Smartsheet, ServiceNow Project Portfolio Manager (PPM), Zoom, and Slack is strongly desired
- Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle HCM, PeopleSoft Student, and HR Administration desired
- Experience with managing IT technical infrastructure, applications, and system integrations
- Knowledge of quality assurance and testing practices desired
- Knowledge of data integration across different technical platforms desired
- Understanding of Web application architecture and the technology tiers that support them, system architectures, application integration, and object-oriented languages desired
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