What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at IO Datasphere?
Job Details
IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide.
Our client is looking for a Project Manager to design, plan, and coordinate work teams.
Tasks
- Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework.
- 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.
- Build an effective team, assign 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- 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.
- Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor.
- May require specific PC, workstation, operating system, application or platform skills.
- Self-directed and independent.
NOTE: Candidates MUST be local at time of submission (within an hour of Lansing).NO RELOCATION ALLOWED. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. The position will be hybrid work schedule, onsite 2 days per week (Mon/Tues) and WFH the remainder of the week.
Location: Lansing, MI (Hybrid)
Contract: 1 years
Skills Required:
- 5 years - Recent Project Management experience.
- 3 years - RFS and RFP experience handling multiple vendors.
- 3 years - Azure Dev Ops experience.
- 3 years - Clarity experience or other PM tools
- Documented experience managing an IT project(s) in a large, complex, enterprise-governed IT environment.
- Bachelor s Degree
Skills Desired A plus to have:
- Experience delivering $10 million projects
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- 5 years - Agile Experience
***Rate depends on experience
*** Local candidates preferred, not mandatory
*** Candidates authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are not sponsoring H1B candidates at this time.
*** Companies submitting candidates should only submit direct W2 employees for this position.
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