Project Manager

Job Description:

• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework.
• Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor.
• Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics. Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities.
• Documents risks and develops mitigation plans. Manages scope. Creates and implements a communication plan.
• Builds an effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes. Negotiates resources.
• Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor. Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers. Provides technical support to project team members.
• Handles complex application features and technical designs.
• Designs and implements the components required for complex application features. Generally manages a group of applications system analysts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Professional certification is highly desirable.
• May require specific PC, workstation, operating system, application or platform skills. Provides overall direction to the formulation, development, implementation, and delivery of a project.
• Exercises management responsibility over the achievement of performance, revenue, and profit objectives of a project and its contracts. Ensures that the project plan maintains tasks, schedules, estimates, and status, and disseminates information to team members and customers.
• Creates a structure and organization for the management of a complex environment with emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency. Directs corrective actions in any area where performance falls below objectives.
• Arranges for the assignment of responsibility to other supporting facilities, business areas, and support functions, and monitors their performance. Self-directed and independent.
• Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects. Oversees all aspects of projects.
• Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project.
• Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.
• Advanced experience managing programs of projects, complex projects or multiple projects.
• Demonstrated and advanced understanding of project management methodologies.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A significant degree of creativity and latitude is required.
• Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.

Top Skills Required:

• 5 Years of recent Project Management experience.
• 3 years of RFS and RFP experience handling multiple vendors.
• Experience delivering $10 million projects highly desired.
• 3 Years of Azure Dev Ops experience.
• 3 Years of Clarity experience or other PM tools.
• Documented experience managing an IT project(s) in a large, complex, enterprise-governed IT environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Resource will need to be proactive with their communication and have solid critical thinking skills.
• Must be collaborative, open-minded, and willing to adapt to the state’s processes. Will work closely with Program and Portfolio Managers and must be open to additional leaderships oversight.
• Possession of a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification highly desired.
• 5 Years of Agile Experience highly desired.

Please submit your resume in word format.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $60.00 - $70.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Application Question(s):

• Are you local to MI(Y/N)

Experience:

• RFS and RFP experience handling multiple vendors.: 3 years (Required)
• Azure Dev Ops: 3 years (Required)
• Clarity experience or other PM tools.: 3 years (Required)
• Agile: 5 years (Required)
• Recent Project Management: 5 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification (y/n) (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Lansing, MI 48906

Salary : $60 - $70