About ETS:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
Position: Technical Project Lead (#6717)
Location: 660 Rosedale Road, Princeton, NJ 08541
Duties:
Responsible for set up, planning, scheduling and controlling of project/initiative activities to achieve deliverables, performance, cost and time objectives and business benefits for a given scope of work, while using resources efficiently and effectively. Lead, coordinate and oversee work across IT projects within a department and/or across departments. Implement IT strategy consistent with individual business unit goals and IT team direction.
Participate in the creation of technical project teams. Provide learning and development opportunities by sharing Subject Matter Expertise. Anticipate, assess, and mitigate issues, coordinating across teams as a single point of contact as necessary and escalate when necessary. Define, organize, guide, coordinate, monitor and execute the work effort to deliver new products, services and methods to business customers within defined constraints for time, cost, quality/scope. Forecast time, resource needs and work estimates for required work. Collaborate across IT teams and Domains to mitigate risks and solve problems in order to meet business commitments. Regularly update leadership on progress and status of assigned projects and ensure production goals are successfully met. Oversee and manage the assignment and completion of staff projects, task, and duties. Apply project management skills to perform ongoing review of program status; identify risks along with mitigation plans. Document program progress including implementation, timelines, issues, risks, and successes to maintain program course. Identify and flag changes that need to be addressed. Changes may be internal to IT or broader outside of IT. Identify appropriate change owner/group and effectively communicate the change to the responsible individual or group. Monitor customer satisfaction and project fulfillment while maintaining budget. Close the project, evaluate project success, document lessons learned and release project resources.
Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems or a related field and 5 years of post-bachelor’s experience in project management. Experience must include the following skills: managing large-scale matrixed projects or concurrent mid-scale projects; vendor management. The required skills do not need to be maintained over the full term of required experience.
May work remotely 2 days per week within normal commuting distance of Princeton, NJ.
Salary range: $140K - $150K
Benefit: https://www.ets.org/careers/total-rewards.html
ETS is mission driven and action oriented
ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in creating a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.
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