Senior Project Manager

The expert Project Manager position will be responsible for planning, organizing, and managing cross-functional and highly complex information technology projects such as variety of application development, vendor software implementation and/or technology infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities:

• Daily activities include guiding project teams and maintaining the necessary project documents including scope, schedule, communication plan, business requirements, business rules, and other necessary project documentation. Mentor and coordinate task completion by project team members. Handling project status reporting and issues/risk identification and mitigation.
• Completing status reports, status briefing, risk and issue identification and mitigation.
• Communication of project status and updates at all levels of organization, with internal stakeholders, project team and executive staff.
• Development and maintenance of detailed project plan with milestones and detailed roll out plan.
• Scheduling and facilitating project meetings with various stakeholders completion of IT projects by working across project team boundaries in a matrix environment to secure resources, resolve issues and set project timeline and milestones.
• Identification and maintenance of critical path and contingencies.
• Risk monitoring, control and mitigation planning.
• Resource allocation estimating and reporting.
• Mentoring of project teams to implement a new product.
• Facilitating decision making between team members to clarify business and technical requirements which cross project team boundaries.
• Planning and support during training and transition .

Required/Preferred Skills:

• 84 months experience in the creation of project management scopes, business cases, and/or project plans as well as utilization of project management methodologies for managing scope, schedule, and quality.
• 84 months of experience in project status reporting to all levels of stakeholders, executives, management, and project resource teams.
• 84 months experience in the creation of meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and project communications for complex cross functional projects.
• 84 months of experience in Project Management of complex, cross-functional, multi-organization information technology projects with a variety of key project stakeholders including executive level. Experience should include a variety of application development, vendor software implementation and/or technology infrastructure projects.
• 60 months experience as a Project Manager in a state or federal government environment.
• 60 months experience managing projects with a team size of 15 or more project participants that required negotiating priorities and resolving conflicts among team members.