IT Project Associate
About The Position
At VEG, we find a way to say YES so our teams have the structure, visibility, and follow-through they need to move work forward. As an IT Project Associate, you’ll provide disciplined operational ownership of IT intake and roadmap processes, making sure requests are complete, commitments are tracked, and stakeholders know where things stand. This role helps protect IT’s execution reliability as demand for cross-functional technology partnership grows. You’ll gain direct exposure to technology initiatives across VEG while bringing order, momentum, and clear communication to work that supports our hospitals, VQ teams, VEGgies, pets, and pet parents.
Requirements
- Strong operational discipline and follow-through. You close loops, keep systems current, and push work forward consistently.
- Ability to notice missing information, risks, and delays early, then escalate clearly with recommended next steps.
- Comfort working in ambiguity and following evolving processes, documentation, and templates.
- Professional communication and judgment across stakeholder levels, with the ability to turn scattered context into clear, audience-appropriate updates.
- Reliability and ownership mindset. People trust you to track commitments and follow through without work getting lost.
- Familiarity with project tracking or intake systems, preferably Monday.com or ServiceNow
Nice To Haves
- Empathetic, instinctively taking a people-centric approach, whether supporting your colleagues or making an effort to understand different perspectives
- Have a sense of humility; acknowledging mistakes, sharing credit with others, and lifting up your team’s’ accomplishments
- Feel a strong sense of ownership over your work, taking responsibility for outcomes and staying committed to achieving long-term, impactful results
- Curious by nature; you ask insightful questions and continuously seek out opportunities to learn and grow your skills and knowledge
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day coordination of IT project and software intake from submission through review, keeping requests organized, complete, and moving.
- Prepare requests for Security and Infrastructure review by confirming required information, tracking status, and maintaining accurate systems of record.
- Maintain roadmap boards, milestones, dependencies, action items, and commitments so progress and risks are visible week over week.
- Surface delays and off-track work early using the team’s risk and decision-making approach, bringing clear options and recommended next steps.
- Send structured updates, follow-ups, and meeting coordination to keep project owners, PMs, requestors, frontline VEGgies, and cross-functional partners aligned.
- Support IT Programs with deliverable tracking, basic reporting, status summaries, and slide preparation for internal initiatives
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation Including ($65,000-85,000) + bonus + benefits.
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits that start on day one, and access to free therapy or counseling
- Paid parental leave, up to 12 weeks at 100% of regular salary, and offering inclusive fertility and family-building care for all types of families
- Unlimited PTO to use for vacation or sick days—however you need it!
- Generous employee referral program, so our awesome people can bring in more awesome people.
- Casual office attire
- Ability to bring your fur baby to work
- Cool VEG swag
- Food in the fridge for when you’re hungry
- Free lunches twice a week!!
- Company laptop
- Monthly cell phone reimbursement
- Free parking
- Shuttle from the White Plains Metro-North station
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
