Description
Sr. Project Manager
Columbia, SC
1 year+ contract with annual extensions & option to hire
Candidate Technical Background:
- SDLC Project Management experience
- IT Leadership experience on multiple concurrent project teams
- MS Project, MS Office, and Visio
- PMP Certification is highly desired, but not required.
- Experience writing scope/design/implementation documents
- Able to speak intelligently about various development methodologies
Responsibilities:
- The Project Manager is responsible for all project management activities in a matrixed project environment utilizing Waterfall/PMBOK-based methodology.
- The project environment is fast-paced and deadline-focused.
- The successful PL is able to: work independently while keeping management informed, handle deadline pressures, and effectively escalate project issues.
- The Project Manager is accountable for the delivery of projects on time, on budget, and on target.
- Facilitating project team through the definition of scope, requirements, and design.
- Responsible for authoring (using input from project team) required project documentation, including scope document, design document, and implementation document.
- Responsible for facilitating the WBS process and translating WBS into an MS-Project project schedule, detailed to an 8/80 level of granularity.
- Responsible for keeping the project schedule updated throughout the project life cycle, and for managing a change control process to reflect changes in requirements, deliverables, dates, or budget.
- Responsible for facilitating the identification of project risks and issues, and tracking these through the project life cycle.
- Responsible for coordination of customer testing, with the assistance of a Test Analyst on larger projects.
- Responsible for scheduling, facilitating and recapping project team meetings.
- Responsible for the escalation of project issues, and for communications of project status to all levels of management on both customer and I/S side.
- Must demonstrate strong leadership skills and ability to work in a large, complex environment.
Breakdown of Responsibilities:
- (20%) Develops and monitors project plans, risk management plans, and project documentation from scope to post implementation.
- Ensures project documentation and deliverables are complete, on budget, within scope, and in accordance with standards.
- (20%) Identifies items that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort.
- Monitors resource requirements based on project specifications.
- Ensures resources are assigned to meet project objectives while managing project hours budgeted.
- (20%) Responsible for the development, execution, and maintenance of project communications.
- Facilitates effective communications between all parties involved in the project and/or work efforts.
- This will include meetings, correspondence, status reports and other documentation.
- (20%) Identifies the impact of issues arising from the work efforts and/or resource requirements.
- Manages the project issues throughout the project life cycle.
- Communicates the implications of changes to the project scope with senior management and other appropriate parties.
- (10%) Responsible for ensuring all work efforts have appropriate documentation for audit purposes utilizing project methodology standards in accordance with the ISSM.
- (10%) Coaches, develops, mentors other team members. May provide guidance and leadership to staff pertaining to training and department initiatives. May provide oversight for a group of work efforts as requested. May perform peer reviews of project artifacts.
Working Hours/Conditions:
- Must be able to work on-site (no remote work)
- Must be able and willing to work overtime when project needs dictate, including weekends.
Education/Work Equivalency:
- Bachelor's Degree or a total of 11 years of related work experience