At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world’s most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 10 rankings in ENR. With over 60 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!
We are currently hiring a Facilities IT Specialist in the Los Angeles, CA area to support physical IT projects for a public school district. Our education team provides services to K-12 as well as higher education institutions nationally. You will be teaming with project, program, and client leadership to provide premier educational facilities for our nation’s youth and adults seeking to better themselves through learning.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Directs and manages projects from cradle to grave including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
• Defines project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Develops project plans and associated communication documents including Project Charters.
• Manages and oversees the work of Business Systems Analysts.
• Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Manages client relationships to ensure the appropriate level of participation.
• Manages vendor relationships and resources to ensure effective execution of the project.
• Develops and manages project budgets.
• Identifies and manages project risks as well as issues that arise and the action items required to resolve them.
• Plans and schedules project timelines and milestones using MS Project and track project milestones and deliverables.
• Develops and delivers project status reports.
• Coaches, mentors, motivates, and supervises project team members (employees, contractors, and vendors) and influences them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Conducts project post mortems and creates recommendations in order to improve execution of future projects.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Experience working closely with project stakeholders including clients, users and management to coordinate work efforts across multiple groups to ensure that project goals are met within the established timeframes.
• Experience defining technology solutions to business problems with input from business subject matter experts leading to the creation of Project Charters to support initiation of Projects.
• Develop work estimates, work breakdown structures and the project work plan; prepare a consolidated work plan for initiatives that involve multiple related projects.
• Strong conflict resolution, negotiating and influencing skills.
• Experience in preparing and implementing test plans.
• Experience managing successful, large-scale IT projects, that include software analysis, design, development testing and implementation.
• Working with User Acceptance Testing methodologies and documentation in large complex and heterogeneous technical environments.
• Using project planning tools such as MS Project to track and maintain project plans, work breakdown structures and timelines.
• Productivity/Office Tools, e.g. MS-Visio, MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint.

Required Education and Experience:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or related field. Completion of a master’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or systems engineering is preferred.
Experience: Seven (7) years full-time paid professional industry experience preferably in an educational facility or public works projects. Four (4) years of experience in business analysis and understanding business processes. Three (3) years of Project Management experience in the role of Project Manager. Experience having managed at least 1 project from inception through implementation.
Preferred Certification: PMP certification or equivalent preferred.

Additional Preferred Experience:

• AEC industry experience strongly preferred; LAUSD experience preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred.
• Relational Database Management Systems, e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase.
• Reporting Tools, e.g. BIRT, Tableau, Crystal Reports, Actuate, or others.
• Programming Languages, e.g. Java, C, C++, Open ACS, Oracle PL/SQL.
• Programming Procedures, e.g. ASP, TCL, JSP, PHP, PYTHON.
• Report Development Tools, e.g. Toad, Business Objects/Crystal Reports, Oracle APEX, or other Agile Development Tools.
• Data Modeling

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• Directs and manages projects from cradle to grave including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
• Defines project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Develops project plans and associated communication documents including Project Charters.
• Manages and oversees the work of Business Systems Analysts.
• Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Manages client relationships to ensure the appropriate level of participation.
• Manages vendor relationships and resources to ensure effective execution of the project.
• Develops and manages project budgets.
• Identifies and manages project risks as well as issues that arise and the action items required to resolve them.
• Plans and schedules project timelines and milestones using MS Project and track project milestones and deliverables.
• Develops and delivers project status reports.
• Coaches, mentors, motivates, and supervises project team members (employees, contractors, and vendors) and influences them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Conducts project post mortems and creates recommendations in order to improve execution of future projects