IT Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Top Skills Details :

1. 3-5 years in a Project Management or Project Coordinator role leveraging PMI Principles (PM1 or PM2 depending on experience - intermediate level.

MUST BE AN IT PROJECT MANAGER with enterprise-level experience. This role will specifically focus on managing Software-focused projects.

2. Experience in an enterprise environment leading IT related projects and managing the project deadlines, budgets, and effective communication.

3. Ability to build relationships and work with multiple cross functional business units, leadership and be open and receptive to learning.

4. Documentation, project updates, etc. (Microsoft Project Experience).

Job Description :

Immediately seeking a motivated individual, with a growth mindset who is new or mid-level in the Project Management field, IT Agile Project Management.

The ideal skills, and skills that this person will grow into are as follows-PM1 / PM2 level to take on varying projects across the IS department with some focus on applications and enterprise security.

The Project Manager organizes each assigned project, manages all project work plan related tasks, leads and directs the technical resources, and collaborates with other key players to coordinate the activities of technical staff, users, and vendors.

The Project Manager is responsible for meeting IS Department Project Management standards and maintaining a high quality of service, while producing project deliverables and delivering an assigned project on schedule and within budget.

Position-Related Duties :

• Prepares the Project Charter whereby the goals, objectives, risks, assumptions, organizational structure, staffing level, team organization, roles and responsibilities, work breakdown structure and deliverables are identified and defined.
• Manages the overall Project and its scheduled activities and ensures that resources are available and channeled to produce the planned deliverables on time and within the approved budget.
• Develops and manages Project Budgets which support the cost-effective implementation of IT strategies, tactics and operating plans.
• Organizes the Project team into appropriate work groups and works closely with the Business Lead, Technical Lead, and Test Lead to support and guide the entire Project team in their effort to achieve its business goals and produce deliverables within the specified time frames and financial constraints.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to project participants and leaders both outside and within the Project Management Office (PMO).

Builds, maintains and improves guidance to project managers. Builds and maintains an inventory of project management best practices.

Internal and External).

• Leads or supports interdisciplinary teams in preparing and developing project related documents.
• Conducts stakeholder outreach and communication efforts related to the Project, including conducting Steering Committee meetings, preparing notification letters and other documents and incorporating stakeholder input into the Project’s documents.
• Manages and measures Project performance against PMO expectations for Project Team.
• Establishes and implements a Project Communication Plan.
• Generates and maintains Project Status Reports to keep stakeholders informed on a consistent basis.
• Establishes and maintains central project repositories and Web site content for the use of all IS staff and corporate project stakeholders.
• Mediates and promotes problem solving capability and fosters collaboration between Project participants when project issues or problems occur.

Customer and service minded on approaching issues.

Monitors Project Scope and incorporates PMO Change Management process as needed. Ensures an impact analysis of any change request is completed.

Ensures change requests with a significant impact on the Project are formally brought forward to the Project Team and Steering Committee for resolution.

The IS PMO stakeholders have specifically asked for candidates that meet this criteria :

• Strong technical IT experince
• Excellent at Relationship Building
• Take complete ownership of assigned projects
• Do whatever is needed to get the job done
• Attention to Detail
• Hold people accountable; team likes being kept honest
• Actively leads team to victory not just a "note taker" or someone who can put together a PowerPoint
• Understands project drivers, complexities, interrelationships, and constraints
• Reaches out to vendors and management actively, so as to get ahead of issues
• Develops task lists and runs down the tasks daily
• Establishes esprit de corps with team
• Actively surfaces resource, vendor, and project dependencies which negatively affect project timeline or quality
• Highly organized and able to leverage that to help fill gaps amongst individual contributors
• Consistently follows and applies the standard project management methodology
• Excellent attendance

Skills :

Agile, Pmp, Ms project, Sdlc, Project management, infrastructure, Program management, networking, network project manager, software, Pmi Certification, Project coordinator, Junior project manager, Junior pm, Project plan, microsoft project, Project coordination, Scrum

Additional Skills & Qualifications :

• Strategic Thinking and Decision Making
• Technical / Functional Skills
• Performance Management
• Must have the time management skills to manage multiple projects at a time
• Effective communication and customer focus
• Results driven
• Integrity and Initiative
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Looking for candidates that have a positive attitude, are self-driven, would be considered as a top performer or all-star, have excellent customer service, leadership and communication skills, can successfully facilitate coordination between many different groups.
29 days ago