Mobile Application Project Manager

California  ‐ Onsite
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38384 -Mobile Application Project Manager 

Oakland, CA 94612

Position type: w2

Contact duration: 6months + (strong possibility of extension)

The Mobile Application Project Manager position is a new contract position in the Mobility Center of Excellence (MCoE) within IT. The MCoE is a centralized mobile application development and solution delivery organization, providing enterprise shared services across the organizations such as national functions, regions, PMO, medical groups and others for the purpose of empowering business strategy and needs through the nimble, world class development, delivery and support of mobile application solutions at scale. 

The Mobile Application Project Manager is responsible for delivering IT projects using SDLC processes and project management methods. Actively engages projects using project management best practices such as risk management, scheduling, budget management, communications management, and stakeholder expectation management. Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of the project to ensure that goals and objectives of the project are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters. 

This position requires a proactive and highly organized individual with strong relationship, communication and project management skills in order to successfully engage MCoE internal customers, partners, project teams, leadership, and certification partners. The successful candidate will be able to work at a high level of competence and efficiency with minimal direction, while maintaining a sense of flexibility, humor and enthusiasm. Exemplary critical thinking, meeting facilitation, presentation, and written skills are required. 

Essential Functions: 
.*These are the things that the candidate will be doing on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.* 
Ensure definition of complete project scope and objectives. Manage the project to the established scope and objectives balancing stakeholders' expectations concerning project cost, time, and scope. 
Builds and manages project plans that deliver expected results including specifying goals, strategy, scheduling, resource plans, risk and issues management, and change control for each phase of the project. 
Initiates, builds, and maintains good relationships with IT and business management to help facilitate effective completion of project work. 
Actively manages project stakeholder expectations. 
Identifies and schedules project deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and required tasks.
Engages IT and business management to identify appropriately skilled staff and arranges for recruitment or assignment of extended IT and business associates to the project team. 
Assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority to project personnel. 
Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget. Modifies schedule and budget as required. 
Adheres to the system life cycle (SDLC) and project management standards and practices, reporting and documentation. 
Prepares project status reports and keeps management, project sponsors and project stakeholders informed of project status and related issues. 
Monitors project deliverables against technical and security standards. 
Obtain, through several testing organizations, project signoff of completion. 
Contributes to continuous improvements in project management methodology and processes. 

Required Experience.*This is where you will indicate the MUST HAVE items. If a candidate does not have these then they will be rejected. 
5 years of Program/Project Management experience AND at least 2 years of experience in mobile application project management 
Proven track record of delivering IT projects using varied development approaches for internal and externally developed applications as well as packaged applications including incremental, waterfall, and Agile Scrum. 
Significant knowledge and demonstrated competence with both Agile and Waterfall project management processes, methods, and standards. 
Excellent leadership and communications skills required. 
Experience managing a Matrix team consisting of associates, contractors, and vendors with various skills and disciplines. 
Self-starter with high energy to meet the needs of a demanding business and IT environment. 
Demonstrated strong business acumen to complement strong tactical execution skills. 
Project Management Masters Certification or PMP certification required 
Strong communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills 
High level of comfort with explicitly taking accountability and holding appropriate parties accountable 
Experience with project management and communication tools such as Project, Powerpoint, Excel, Word, and Visio 
Understanding and knowledge of unique factors and challenges of mobile applications in relation to traditional applications 

Preferred Experience: 
.*These are things that we would like to see, but are NOT required to fill the position. These are NOT disqualifying items.* 
Experience with project management and communication tools such as Pages and Daptiv 
Experience in the healthcare industry 
Experience working for large organizations and cross-organizational initiatives 
Power user of mobile applications for personal and professional productivity 

Required Education: 
BA/BS degree 

Skills to be successful in this role: 
Manage multiple project across company 
Ability to drive projects 
Issue resolution and management 
Ability to integrate 
Effective communicator 
Adaptable 

Start date
n.a
From
Enclipse Corp.
Published at
17.07.2013
Project ID:
568713
Contract type
Freelance
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