Project Manager
DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Project Manager for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in the Richmond, VA area.
*This position is hybrid, 3 days per week will be on-site
Responsibilities:
Senior Project Manager to perform as primary project manager, requirements tracking and light business process definition on multiple technology projects of varying size as assigned. Some assignments will be for projects in-flight. Project assignments may span multiple business lines across the county vs being dedicated to a single business unit. Projects typically require project team engagement across various technical functions including information security, infrastructure (cloud and on-premise), integrations/system interfaces, data conversion, GIS, and others. The project manager will work in a matrixed environment with project team members assigned by the functional managers as well as vendor solution providers.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Project Management Institute Project Management Professional (PMP) Required
- Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Background and Online County Certification Course
- 2-5 years exposure to Professional Business Analysis (PBA) processes and techniques
- Desired 2-5 years on a team providing project management and business analysis for a medium institution of 500 or more employees.
- Candidate must provide superior customer service through concise and timely communications, strong execution, a caring attitude, and a sense of urgency based upon customer and sponsor project priorities.
- This position involves working closely with business representatives to ensure that the technical solutions being developed are in line with the business needs and articulated appropriately to satisfy the needs of the business
- Candidate must understand the role of business process as described by business representatives that inform solution requirements.
- Candidate will need to actively work to build knowledge and understanding of business department technology direction, strategy, operations and products/services
- Candidate must understand how requirements, testing, and defect management can affect project quality and schedule.
- Candidate understands and can articulate the importance of satisfying user needs and expectations through effective application of project governance through project execution.
- Candidate understands the role of business process definition to inform requirements elaboration in project management and software development.
- Candidate is capable of applying basic techniques to capture business process flow using a process flowchart and standard RASCI model templates.
- Candidate should be experienced with application of analytical and estimation techniques with standard Microsoft tools as needed in order to assemble, propose, and quantify business cases and process improvement costs, if encountered. Proactively seeks guidance to assemble figures when guidance is needed.
- Candidate must be comfortable with independently pursuing decisions from customer and sponsor as actions are required to advance the project.
- Candidate will apply experience with decision-making processes to prioritize and work with the project customer to bring closure to matters affecting achievement of project scope
- Candidate seeks timely, efficient, and proactive solutions that support business needs. Accumulates the input of business and IT leads to present relative costs and benefits of potential actions for project leadership to decide the most appropriate path to pursue.
- Candidate possesses ability to work with data to identify patterns & trends for presenting data driven recommendations.
- Candidate promotes and facilitates coordination and cooperation of planning, scheduling and executing among peers
- Candidate creates & sustains relationships and builds trust with internal and external stakeholders.
- Candidate has ability to adapt to new and different environments. Ability to be flexible & accepting of business strategic, tactical, & organizational changes
- Candidate self-directs work through goal setting, time management, and planning. Continually seeks opportunities to improve processes & work solutions that impact efficiency & results.
- Candidate pursues knowledge and understanding of county practices, political, regulatory, environment within the local government.
- Candidate will be responsible for conveying project information to diverse audiences, oral and written, in a way that is easily understandable and actionable
- Candidate understands, adheres to, and uses fundamentals of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) tools, documentation, techniques and lifecycle.
- Candidate applies appropriate control artifacts related to cost, risk, schedule, quality, and scope under guidance of the IST Project Management Office.
- Candidate possesses a thorough understanding of software development lifecycle and the implications they have for project planning and execution. Candidate understands primary concepts for how technology is architected, designed, secured, tested and deployed.
- Candidate has extensive experience with detailed planning for projects and programs, from the highest level down to the task level. Able to estimate and forecast effort, cost, impacts, and resource needs with guidance of the IST project lead or project management office as needed and own adjustment of plans during the course of project execution.
- Candidate has ability to evaluate available data and provide specific reporting on elements of project and program execution across a wide range of stakeholders.
- Candidate manages and tracks vendor issues to resolution. Assists as needed in definition, informing negotiation points with Purchasing Office contract officer, and conflict resolution within IST, with business customer, and vendors.
- Candidate will utilize client’s PMO control artifacts for managing project cost, schedule, and resources (human and financial). Monitors project costs closely during execution and applies inquiry and corrective action techniques to control them.
- Candidate understands and will be responsible for reporting to the PMO assigned project schedule health using schedule performance index (SPI)
- Candidate must maintain personal mobile technology as a condition of employment.
Required Skills:
- 5 Years - PMI PMP Credential required. (VITA Project Management Certification considered)
- 10 Years - Extensive lead project management experience managing schedule, scope, and budget for varying size technology projects including enterprise level.
- 10 Years - Direct management of business stakeholders and project team members; Ability to define and gain consensus on direction
- 10 Years - Strong understanding and application of project governance through authoring and applying governance artifacts including charter, change mgmt, etc.
- 10 Years - Clear and concise oral and written communications tailored towards technical and non-technical audience.
- 10 Years - Knowledgeable of MS Office (Project, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Teams)
Desired Skills:
- 5 Years - Project Management experience within state or local government preferred.
This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.