Duties

• Provide on-site leadership for the project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously.
• Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization
• Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings
• Monitor staff performance
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks, and issues, communicating across leadership
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs
• Manage project scope and changes
• Act as an internal quality control check for the project
• Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution
• Support formal/informal schedules to manage the engagement contract
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project and program team, analyze results and troubleshoot problem areas
• Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the project and program life cycle
• Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project and program team
• Continue professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices
• Proven success in providing on-site leadership for the project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
Qualifications
• Ability to maintain project momentum.
• Bachelor of Arts or higher. Preferably PMP or CAPM
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Experience working in union contract venues is a must.
• Good people skills
• Minimum ten years experience in Live event production
• OSHA 30 Construction
• Proficiency in managing large projects with exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills
• Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills, including the ability to lead up, across, and down multiple business and technology organizations
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence
• Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives
• Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal, and presentation), and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands
• Research best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data and use continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results
• Experience negotiating vendor contracts
• Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary
• Experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule, and within budget close
• Experience leading, motivating, and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance
• Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from executives, sponsors, team members, stakeholders, and peers
• Team-building skills with technical and non-technical staff
• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Adept at researching project-related issues and products
• Must be able to learn, understand and apply new technologies