Project Manager (PMP Certificate must)

Richmond, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 6 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Project Manager (Only local to Richmond VA)

Location:Richmond VA

*Local candidates only please

Under the program manager the project manager is responsible for the outcome of the assigned projects. The project manager leads the team through the Commonwealth Standard for Project Management for successful completion of the project phases: Pre-Select Initiation Planning Execution and Control and Closeout.

The selected candidate will:
Serve as a hands-on technical project manager with development staff and business groups.
Coordinate and communicate with ITD management and staff to coordinate work tasks and resourcing.
Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
Collaborate with vendors consultants and contractors in the execution of projects including contract management and working with the procurement office(s).
Adhere to project management practices and governance requirements; coordinate with Project Management Offices.
Maintain project budget plans tasks schedules risks and status and disseminates information to team members and customers as defined in the communications plan.
Ensure documentation of requirements and uses cases facilitate design workshops for assigned project.
Ensure definition of test objectives designed test plans and test cases for assigned project.
Provide the management of project milestones and deliverables for on-time and on-budget delivery.
Define measure and clearly communicate progress with metrics.
Support system and application training efforts.

Qualifications
Required:
The candidate must have a minimum of 8 years experience managing large projects and a bachelors degree.
Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking physical plant vendor management site provisioning).
Experience managing large multi-stream projects.
PMP or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers for Category 4 Projects. See: in both Agile and Waterfall project management..

Agile Scrum Master certification
Microsoft Office products (Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server)

Special Instructions to Applicants:
This position requires a fingerprint-based background check.
PMP certification from PMI or PM certification from VITA is required - no other certification qualifies.

Required/Desired Skills

Skill	Required/Desired	Amount	of Experience
Candidate must have a minimum of 10 years experience managing large projects	Required	10.0	Years
Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles.	Required	10.0	Years
Balance business/technical background with sufficient level of technical background to provide highly credible leadership to technology teams.	Nice to have	10.0	Years
Microsoft Office products (Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server)	Required	10.0	Years
Bachelor Degree	Required

Required Skills:

Candidate must have a minimum of 10 years experience managing large projectsSolid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management Office products (WordExcelAccessOutlookVisioPowerPointProject Server)Bachelor Degree

Job Title: Project Manager (Only local to Richmond VA) Location:Richmond VA*Local candidates only pleaseUnder the program manager the project manager is responsible for the outcome of the assigned projects. The project manager leads the team through the Commonwealth Standard for Project Management f...