The Colorado Community College System (CCCS) is hiring a Project Manager/Business Analyst (PM/BA) to join the Information Technology team at System Office. This is a great opportunity to bring your project manager experience to an enterprise environment in higher education. We provide generous leave, excellent benefits, and flexible work schedules, including hybrid-remote work within the state of Colorado.

Examples of Duties

In this role you’ll be focusing on Financial Aid, Student, and Advancement areas. You will manage projects that are very large and complex, such as multi-year new product implementations, enhancements to existing solutions, the development of new solutions, and projects that utilize various approaches to resolving issues introduced by upgrades, patches, or new requirements.

Some duties of the position include:

• Driving the collaboration with relevant IT departments, either contributing to or impacted by current services and projects.
• Collaborating with business users to develop business cases and comprehensive project requests. This role works closely with the Assistant Director of Student Business Services and the Student Affairs Trainer, as well as college functional user groups such as Registrars, Academic Advisors, Schedulers, Financial Aid Directors and Advancement/Foundation staff.
• Facilitating the gathering of project requirements from various business users and technical staff members and develop written project and task specifications.
• Identifying, verifying, and recording task dependencies, task efforts, and durations. Creating accurate, detailed, and organized project task details. Managing resource allocation/contention across projects.
• Following established project management guidelines and processes to develop, maintain, and track project plans, conduct project meetings, and report project statuses.
• Providing project status updates.
• Managing the day-to-day operations of the Ellucian Banner product/service line and related third-party vendor products, including the oversight and management of specific projects, staff, and deliverables.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree. Relevant education and/or experience may substitute year for year for the required degree.
• Two years of experience managing projects.
• Hands-on work experience in Student Affairs areas in a higher education setting.
• Experience with Ellucian CRM Recruit (or another admissions CRM) and Ellucian Banner Student.

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