-
Job Description
Job Summary
Join the City of Grand Prairie as an IT Project Manager, where you’ll lead impactful, citywide technology initiatives from start to finish-planning, coordinating, and managing multiple complex projects that shape our community’s future. In this pivotal role, you’ll oversee budgets, guide implementation, and solve challenges with creativity and independence, ensuring innovative solutions that support our departments and residents alike.
Essential Job Functions
This information is intended to be descriptive of the key responsibilities of the position. The following examples do not identify all duties performed by any single incumbent.- This position has responsibilities that require lifting up to 10 pounds on occasion.
- Manages assigned IT projects to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope of project. Works with the IT department to determine business requirements and priorities.
- Performs complex data-driven analysis to support management decisions pertaining to infrastructure, defining key performance indicators, and designing operational improvements.
- Tracks and manages the overall lifecycle of IT projects. Sets and tracks project milestones; manages and accounts for unforeseen delays, then realigns schedules and expectations as needed.
- Leads and communicates with team members to ensure optimal strategy and maximum efficiencies. Coordinates, facilitates, and attends project meetings; publishes detailed project notes and records.
- Establishes and implements project communication plans, providing status updates to affected staff and stakeholders based on an understanding of the business unit’s workflow processes.
- Conducts and coordinates change management meetings, communicating the changes to relevant departments by leveraging available communication channels.
- Oversees the project budget process and other financial-related tasks for the IT department.
- Coordinates the process of creating, reviewing, and assessing RFQs and RFPs for IT Projects (internal and external).
- Compiles departmental key performance indicators and statistics, using tools such as KPI dashboards, project cost performance indices, and schedule performance indices.
- Collects, analyzes, and summarizes information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports.
- Prepares presentations and communicates effectively and persuasively with stakeholders throughout the project life cycle.
- Develops statements of work, business area analyses, multiple system integration studies, management reports, City Council recommendations, budget recommendations, customer satisfaction surveys, project documentation, plans, recommendations, spreadsheets, e-mails, presentations, and schedules with clearly organized thoughts, using proper sentence structure, punctuation, and grammar.
- Develops trusting working relationships, building rapport with customers, team members, management, etc.; motivates team members to achieve milestones.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
Minimum Qualifications
Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may qualify. A typical way to obtain this knowledge, skills, and abilities would be:- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- Experience: 3 to 5 years of relevant experience
- Licenses: Valid Driver’s License required
- Certifications Required: PMP or related project management certification is preferred.
Closing Date/Time: 9/12/2025 5:00 PM Central - This position has responsibilities that require lifting up to 10 pounds on occasion.
-
Special Instructions
9/12/2025 5:00 PM Central -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
-
-
City of Grand Prairie
Show moreWelcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
team! -