Project Manager
Project Manager
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Job Description
Must Have:
Experience as a business analyst and/or project manager
Experience in gathering documenting and communicating business requirements and/or user stories
Experience with project requiring knowledge of project management principles or agile software development techniques methodologies and best practices.
Experience with organizing project teams and work plans for multiple projects.
Experience estimating and planning project timelines and milestones and administering task schedules.
Experience in designing documenting and improving business processes.
Experience with projects requiring an understanding of application programming relational database concepts and system design.
Experience research and writing Advanced Planning Documents required by Federal partners in the area of health and human services.
Preparing project plans
Facilitating discussions and consensus among various stakeholders
Analyzing and defining complex business problems to provide solutions that meet business requirements
Defining and documenting business requirements user stories processes and workflows
Designing and configuring detailed specifications for applications to meet business requirements and user stories
Ensuring delivery of highquality applications and reengineered processes
Developing project proposals and recommendations to stakeholders
Developing project plans to identify project scope objectives milestones deliverables project schedule budget and resources
Providing timely and comprehensive project status reports to project team and supervisory management
Receiving direction from supervisory management providing appropriate accurate and tactful comment or feedback in a timely manner
Managing and monitoring project budget and expenditures
Tracking and monitoring project progress against the project plan requirements user stories processes milestones and quality indicators
Gathering information on business functions processes procedures and information needs through a variety of methods including process workshops workflow analysis and interviews with subject matter experts application developers and other technical personnel
Developing detailed knowledge of corporate processes and associated tools used to support these processes
Working in collaboration with project team members and other key stakeholders to define and document detailed business requirements and user stories
Evaluating current business requirements user stories and processes to identify automation and/or improvement initiatives
Acting as Change Agent to improve business operations and manage impact of changes on business
Working with stakeholders to develop and execute software testing strategy including test plans test cases and confirmation of expected results
Ensuring all documentation relevant to the application/project is developed clear and concise and easy to maintain (specifications design features processes procedures use cases test scripts interfaces reports training materials user manuals help systems etc.
Instituting a quality assurance audit and post implementation process for all application upgrades/projects to ensure that they meet client expectations
Managing a diverse and complex suite of projects simultaneously
Managing any assigned staff including contractors working as a team.
Ability to effectively communicate in English verbally and in writing
Ability to interact with functional users and technical staff regarding business and information technology needs.
Ability to listen and solve problems.
Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills.
Ability to exercise flexibility and good judgment in assessing business issues and associated risks.
Ability to work effectively with a variety of departments and management levels.
Advanced writing skills with the ability to write effective memos reports and documentation.
Ability to present alternatives/solutions and supporting data clearly and convincingly to client stakeholders.
Ability to communicate thoughts and express complex ideas tactfully in simple terminology both verbally and in written communications.
Interpersonal skills necessary to elicit detailed facts from subject matter experts such as applications developers and program staff.
Software
Proficient level skill in MS Office products: Outlook Word Excel and PowerPoint.
Experience with project management tracking software
Nice to Have:
At least three 3 years of experience as a business analyst and/or project manager working on State and/or Federal Government projects.
Experience with projects requiring an understanding of online web portal architectures and how legacy and webbased systems interface with each other.
Experience with designing and building ntier software applications
Experience with Visio or similar process flow software.
Experience using JIRA and Slack software
Experience with agile software methodology.
SCRUM certification (SCRUM Product owner)
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Contract
