Description
Client seeking a Sr Project Manager for a 6 month Contract to Hire opportunity! Under very limited supervision, The Sr. Project Manager will perform budget tracking, communications, progress monitoring and management reporting. The PM will maintain a fully resource loaded scheduled, track plans and activities, manage interfaces between other projects impacting the program, coordinate and monitor activities to ensure programs are tracking on budget and on schedule; take and publish minutes; and communicate program status. The Sr. Project Manager must be technically competent in information technologies and promote use of PMI best practices.
Primary Position Responsibilities
- Accountability responsibility for overall project/program success from start to finish.
Provide budget analysis, resource planning coordination of activities. - Work closely with business clients:
To gather, analyze and document all of the solution requirement details. - Define and refine a detailed scope of work for all project deliverables.
- Develop a detailed program schedule to produce all of the required deliverables.
- Excellent knowledge and skill utilizing MS Enterprise Project Server and Project Web Access including resource pool management and allocation, timesheet progression, querying, dashboard reporting
Prepare and publish MS Project and MS PowerPoint presentations communicating the status of projects and initiatives on a weekly basis. - Manage, monitor, escalate & communicate progress against the plan on a regular basis.
- Manage and track changes, issues risks associated with the program.
- Manage the acceptance of all formal program deliverables.
Close the program on completion of all deliverables. - Lead, manage, and monitor program teams to execute the project according to plan.
- Follow established PMO project plans (ie change, schedule risk & issue).
- Proactively manage and resolve issues to minimize crises and escalations, while proactively informing and escalating to appropriate leadership level.
- Provide leadership, guidance and assistance to project team members throughout the project/program life cycle.
- Provide leadership and mentoring to peers within PMO organization.
- May serve as a Project Manager lead within the PMO.
- Project Management Institute certification /PMP Preferred.
- 7 - 10 years experience as a PM.
- Experience with Microsoft Project.
- Experience with Microsoft SharePoint.
- Broad range of technology experience including programming, customer information systems, billing, report generation, analysis, etc.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work as a team within a professional group and build confidence among co-workers.
- Proficiency using Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
- Client will not accept subcontractors
- Excellent Communication Skills
- MS Project
- Project Manager
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- and Life Insurance for Full-time W2 Consultants. Supplemental Disability and Long-Term Care Insurance
- Dependent Care Assistance. 401(k) with Roth feature. Free E-learning Courses