Assoc Project Manager IT

100315BR

Campus: Tempe

Assoc Project Manager IT

Job Description

The Associate Project Manager will play a crucial role in supporting the ASU AI Cloud Innovation Center, a collaboration between ASU and AWS focusing on leveraging AI and cloud technology and innovative processes to address community and regional challenges. This role involves managing projects from ideation through prototype stages, ensuring they align with the Center's mission to benefit the greater Phoenix area and beyond.

About ASU Cloud Innovation Center:

The ASU Smart City Cloud Innovation Center, powered by AWS, is dedicated to solving community and regional challenges through innovative cloud technology solutions. Its mission encompasses improving digital experiences for smart city designers, spurring economic and workforce development, and enhancing public sector technology solutions

Job Family

Information Technology

Department Name

Project Strategy & Design

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full-Time

VP Code

ASU Enterprise Technology

Grant Funded Position

This is not a grant funded position and is not contingent on future grant funding.

Salary Range

Depends on experience

Essential Duties

• Project Management: Lead and manage projects utilizing Amazon’s innovation processes and cloud solutions. Oversee projects and student workers from conception to completion, ensuring they meet objectives and deadlines.
• Collaboration: Work closely with smart city designers, ASU staff, students and external stakeholders to develop and implement effective solutions.
• Innovation and Technology Implementation: Employ cutting-edge cloud technologies and innovative strategies to solve pressing challenges in the community.
• Space management and planning for staff
• Event coordination
• Public Sector Engagement: Facilitate the sharing of solutions within the public sector, contributing to regional development.
• Community Impact: Drive initiatives that have a tangible, positive impact on the Phoenix metropolitan area and beyond.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors degree and 2 years of experience; 1 of which are in project management, or any equivalent combination of experience and /or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Desired Qualifications

• Evidence of a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Preferred Agile/Scrum Experience
• Proven experience in project management, preferably in technology or smart city initiatives.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies and digital transformation.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Working Environment

• Activities are primarily performed in a regular, climate-controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, standing, walking. Visual acuity and manual dexterity associated with daily use of desktop computer; bending, stooping, reaching and lifting up to 20 pounds. 
• Ability to clearly communicate verbally in English, read, write, see and hear to perform essential duties.
• Regular review of completed tasks.

Department Statement

Enterprise Technology (ET) embraces its role as both an enabler and catalyst for advancing the vision and work of the New American University.  We are a values-driven organization.  Our commitments are reflected in all of the work we do in pursuit of operational excellence, the experience and delight of our community, and our strategic and innovation initiatives. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.
Join the team that sparks human-centered innovation

ET is a rapidly reconfigurable and entrepreneurial organization at ASU that prioritizes and executes to meet the needs of our community of learners, faculty, researchers and staff. Our work emphasizes autonomy, flexibility and distributed decision-making to leverage the strengths of individuals. Together, we embrace a culture that nurtures, engages and embraces diverse voices with a shared lens of positive community impact and expanded opportunities for collaboration.

Why join us?

Mission oriented. Everything we do is to advance ASU’s charter -- measuring who we include and how they succeed. We are staunch champions of learner success and put people first.

Flexibility. Our hybrid work environment prioritizes personal autonomy and trust around how work gets done. Staff touch base in person a few times per week with freedom to decide how, when and where.

Culture forward. We embrace a Positive Core culture: Belonging, Relational, Authentic, Visionary and Empowered. The ET fabric weaves together diversity, equity and inclusion applied in our daily work and interactions.  

Scale of impact. Our work changes the world. With 180k+ learners, faculty, researchers and staff, working with ET means you have the capacity to improve many lives and entire communities.

World-class, low cost education. Our professional development is built in! ET encourages staff to seek additional certificates and degrees via ASU’s top ranked programs with major tuition breaks.

Exposure to industry giants. ET partners with Amazon, Apple, Cox, Verizon, Salesforce, Alteryx and a diversity of technology companies to enhance our innovations and deepen their impact.

ASU Statement

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

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ASU conducts pre-employment screening which may include verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses, and certifications.

Background Check Statement

ASU conducts pre-employment screening for all positions which includes a criminal background check, verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses, and certifications. Employment is contingent upon successful passing of the background check.

Fingerprint Check Statement

This position is considered safety/security sensitive and will include a fingerprint check. Employment is contingent upon successful passing of the fingerprint check.

Instructions to Apply

Application deadline is 3:00PM Arizona time on the date indicated.

Please include all employment information in month/year format (e.g., 6/88 to 8/94), job title, job duties and name of employer for each position.

Resume should clearly illustrate how prior knowledge and experience meets the Minimum and Desired qualifications of this position.

ASU does not pay for travel expenses associated with interviews, unless otherwise indicated.

Only electronic applications are accepted for this position.

IMPORTANT NOTE: What is the meaning of “equivalent combination” in the minimum qualifications? It means one year of higher education or 24 credit hours, is equal to one year of experience. For example, a four year Bachelor’s degree is equal to four years of experience.