About this Position:
Job Title: Project Manager
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Develop clarify and manage the scope of the project define contract deliverables and achieve targeted outcomes.
- Ensure project requirements are achieved in a timely fashion and within budget guidelines.
- Assemble project team identify needed resources assign responsibilities and develop timeframes to facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables.
- Determine project costs/ensure delivery on time and within budgetary guidelines.
- Ensure compatibility and consistency with existing architectural and enterprise standards.
- Perform cost/benefit analysis of actions and initiatives.
- Schedule meetings and document meeting minutes.
- Follow the Project Management practice and prescribed SDLC.
- Prepare status reports status summaries and dashboards for presentation to mid and senior level management.
- Provide support coaching and mentoring on project management best practices as requested for project coordinator associates.
Skills/experience:
Required:
- Demonstrate leadership qualities such as conflict/issue resolution the ability to run a project or serve as project manager on a program team and can ensure a successful project lifecycle
- Communicate (verbally and in writing) effectively with stakeholders and senior business leadership of departments and agencies participating in this project.
- Organize and work effectively with project teams of staff from department and agencies participating in this effort
- Demonstrate experience and relevant expertise in the design and building of distributed and enterprise solutions
- Plan organize and direct the work activities of outside consultants and/or systems analysis and programming personnel assigned on a team.
- Demonstrate presentation skills strategic thinking and high professional ethics.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates departmental officials outside consultants and vendors.
- Demonstrate proficiency with the principles of project management systems delivery life cycle and budgeting.
- Concepts and applications of servers storage mainframes monitoring ITIL metrics and performance management disaster recovery data center facilities management managed services and cloud computing.
- IT project management best practice principles and techniques. (PMBOK)
Highly Desired/Preferred:
- Completion of a Bachelors degree program at an accredited college or university with a major course work in Computer Science Information Technology or a closely related field.
- Minimum of 3-5 years Project Management experience managing multiple large cross-functional teams or projects
- 4-6 years of applicable business experience
- PMP certification or Master s Certificate in Project Management preferred.