Project Manager III – Strategic Initiatives

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• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Business Administration, Public Administration, Project Management, Transportation, or Urban Planning, or a related field.
• Four (4) years of progressively responsible experience in strategic initiatives, business transformation, transportation, program implementation, process improvement, organizational change, or a related field, including experience three (3) years leading complex cross-functional projects or programs.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and related project management, collaboration, process-improvement, and business applications.
• Pass a physical (medical) examination that includes a drug screen.
• Knowledge of project and program management principles and practices, including project scoping, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, resource planning, implementation, and performance monitoring.
• Knowledge of strategic planning, business-case development, process improvement, change management, and implementation planning principles and practices.
• Ability to translate executive direction and organizational priorities into clearly defined projects, work plans, deliverables, timelines, responsibilities, and decision points.
• Ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives involving multiple departments and stakeholders without direct authority over participating resources.
• Ability to identify and define business problems, evaluate alternatives and tradeoffs, coordinate appropriate analysis, and develop practical recommendations.
• Ability to develop business cases, implementation plans, project charters, schedules, budgets, risk assessments, and executive recommendations.
• Ability to identify and manage project risks, dependencies, constraints, resource requirements, and implementation challenges.
• Ability to facilitate working groups, workshops, executive discussions, and other collaborative problem-solving activities.
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects and priorities simultaneously while maintaining schedules, deliverables, accountability, and quality.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical, problem-solving, project management, facilitation, communication, presentation, negotiation, and organizational skills.

Works in an environment where there is minimum exposure to dust, noise, or temperature. May be moderately exposed to unpleasant working conditions to include dust, noise, temperature, weather, petroleum products, and chemicals while visiting DART's operating facilities, assuming incumbent is observing all policies and procedures, safety precautions and regulations, and using all protective clothing and devices provided.