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Director of Technical Project Management

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Salary commensurate with experience
United States, North Carolina, Greensboro
Jan 07, 2025
Posting Details
Position Information


Position Number 000186
Functional Title Director of Technical Project Management
Position Type Staff
Position Eclass EP - EHRA 12 mo leave earning
University Information
Located in North Carolina's third largest city, UNC Greensboro is among the most diverse, learner-centered public research universities in the state, with 18,000 students in eight colleges and schools pursuing more than 150 areas of undergraduate and over 200 areas of graduate study. UNCG continues to be recognized nationally for academic excellence, access, and affordability. UNCG is ranked No. 1 most affordable institution in North Carolina for net cost by the N.Y. Times and No. 1 in North Carolina for social mobility by The Wall Street Journal - helping first-generation and lower-income students find paths to prosperity. Designated an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, UNCG is a community-engaged research institution with a portfolio of more than $67M in research and creative activity. The University's 2,600 staff help create an annual economic impact for the Piedmont Triad region in excess of $1B.
Primary Purpose of the Organizational Unit
The Project Manager will report through Information Technology Services ( ITS). While this position has supervisory duties over project management, it will also be responsible for project management duties.
Broadly, this position will be focused on ensuring our project management efforts produce results as we process a pipeline of key business and IT initiatives. The individual in this position will ensure that all assigned work gets properly prioritized, resourced, and completed on-time and within budget.
This position will work collaboratively with ITS and university leadership to help ensure that we deliver technologies that align with strategic objectives and operating needs.
Position Summary
The position will be responsible for leading complex multi-disciplinary projects that deliver solutions achieving strategic business objectives. This role establishes and controls project management processes for managing scope, cost, schedule, and deliverables. This includes defining and applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management across project management activities.

The position leads strategically important, high-impact, projects with technical components that require an interdisciplinary understanding of technology and its use in a dynamic and complex campus. This covers a broad range of work from infrastructure (servers and networking) to enterprise software (changes to systems like ERP, productivity, etc. as well as releases of new capabilities with broad impact). The project manager will provide day-to-day direction to cross functional teams in these efforts.

In addition to these responsibilities, this position will oversee the work of other project managers who are also leading their own projects. In this capacity, the director maintains accountability for the quality of our project management practice by aligning methods and measures with best practices in support of the direction set by senior campus leadership. The project manager will provide regular status updates to campus leadership across strategic initiatives.

Preferred qualifications for this position include:


  • PMP or equivalent certification
  • Experience as a Technical PM Team lead
  • Management experience
  • Experience with Microsoft Office applications, especially Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and with Google Docs and Box applications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in management, Business Administration, Operations, or related subject area, or acceptable combination of education/experience
  • 7-10 years of experience in project management
  • 1-3 years of management experience
  • Experience with supporting enterprise financial operations (e.g., financial planning and budgeting, accounting, procurement services, etc)
  • Experience with project management methodology and frameworks
  • Experience with managing cross-functional teams that support enterprise-wide capabilities.
  • Experience with receiving and analyzing information, formulating work plans, preparing written material, and articulating goals and action plans
  • Experience with managing multiple project streams
  • Experience with influencing and inspiring people to work toward a common goal by exhibiting positive leadership character qualities
  • Effective listening and communication skills across executive, mid-level management, and business area teams

Additional Required Certifications, Licensures, and Certificates
Preferred Qualifications


  • PMP or equivalent certification
  • Experience as a Technical PM Team lead
  • Management experience
  • Experience with Microsoft Office applications, especially Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and with Google Docs and Box applications

Special Instructions to Applicants
Recruitment Range Salary commensurate with experience
Org #-Department Info Technology Services - 23101
Job Open Date 01/07/2025
For Best Consideration Date 01/08/2025
Job Close Date
Open Until Filled Yes
FTE 1.000
Type of Appointment Permanent
If time-limited, please specify end date for appointment.
Number of Months per Year 12
FLSA Exempt
Applied = 0

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