Online Project Manager, Scripps

Knoxville, TN

Cory Bergman January 12th, 2007

Job Number: 5767
Job Title: Project Manager I
Status: Full Time
Location: Corporate - Northshore (Knoxville, TN)

Position Requirements:

EXPERIENCE:

• Project management experience in an Internet technology
environment.

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Superior communications skills – verbal, written and
presentation – including reporting on project status and resolving
priority conflicts among peers, supervisors and newspaper/corporate
executives.

• Patience and ability to excel under pressure, managing projects
on behalf of multiple peers and executives, often with tight and
inflexible deadlines.

• Working familiarity – in a project management, not programming,
sense – with the characteristics of common Internet technologies,
including:

o Formatting languages, e.g. HTML, XHTML and XML.

o Presentation logic, e.g. CSS, XSL.

o Scripting and programming environments, e.g. JavaScript, Perl, Cold
Fusion, Java/JSP.

o Database environments and programming interfaces, e.g. Oracle,
MySQL, SQL Server.

o Productivity software, e.g. Office, Project, Dreamweaver.

Familiarity with newspapers and journalism principles will be useful,
but is not required.

Job Description:

The Project Manager 1 will coordinate rapid-development (FastTrack)
technology and design projects among managers of Scripps
newspaper-based Web sites, corporate Information Technology
developers and user interface specialists. In this role, the PM1
will:

• Define feature/function requirements and set priorities for each
project.

• Maintain the rapid-development schedule, setting comparative
priorities for multiple, concurrent small- to medium-scale projects.

• Ensure on-schedule development and on-budget deployment of
projects.

• Troubleshoot currently deployed site software and user
interfaces.

• Seek economies of scale in rapid development, combining similar
functionality requests into multisite deployments.

• Keep site teams and corporate staff informed of project status
and resource/schedule conflicts, including recommendations for
resolving conflicts.
Rapid-development projects typically range from tasks that can be
completed by one person in less than one day to tasks that may
involve small teams for several work days. Types of projects may
include: new or upgraded form-based Web applications with database
interactions; new content sections; new advertising delivery methods;
and integrations of vendors’ user interfaces with Scripps site
designs.

The PM1 will also assist the Operations Manager in coordinating and
scheduling medium- to large-scale capital technology developments.
These projects may include: Internet content management, personalized
services for registered site members, content syndication and
aggregation, and behavioral targeting of online advertising.

To be considered a candidate for this position, mail, e-mail your
resume, cover letter and salary requirement to the address below.
Please refer to job number 5767

Contact:
Human Resources
Email: jobs@scrippsnetworks.com