The ideal candidate will oversee and manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as the liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
Reviews the status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client satisfaction goals and objectives.
Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress, intervention, and problem-solving with project managers, line managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
Duties and Responsibilities :
Directly managing all aspects of the project lifecycle. Responsible for managing the complete lifecycle of government contract technology product implementations.
Accountable for full life cycle project management, including project initiation and planning, development, testing, implementation, and closeout.
Planned, programmed, and recommended allocation of resources to support the mission and associated goals and objectives.
Responsibility for assembling the project staff for their technical or functional development, performance, and / or termination during the project or projects.
Develop, prioritize, and defend IT resource requirements.
Develop project schedules and recommend appropriate lead-lag times. Plan workload for multiple project management teams and de-conflict resources.
Provide forward-looking schedule analysis to Leadership.
- Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas. Analyze to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
- Source the capabilities, skills, and technology necessary to meet customer requirements supported by service-level agreements.
- Conducts regular, periodic project management status meetings to apprise all stakeholders of project progress, issues, challenges, risks, and project management activities.
- Defining and tracking project milestones while developing, maintaining and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.
- Accurately assessing, managing, and reporting dependencies, risks, and issues.
- Developing required project artifacts such as project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, contingency plan, etc.
depending on methodology (Waterfall, Agile).
Publishing periodic project status reports.
Education and Work Experience :
- 8 - 10+ years of managing large and complex technology integration projects.
- BA or BS degree in CS, IT, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
- PMP certification preferred
- management
- Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills