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** Position : Sr.Project Manager #7701 Location : Owings Mills , Md 10+ months Rate : $70/hr. Could go higher $ Responsibilities: * Manages projects, develops and directs technical project teams through all phases and activities of the project life-cycle process associated with major information technology systems projects that are essential to departmental missions and affect CareFirst operations on a long-term and continuing basis. * Determines Project goals and priorities with management, program manager and/or project sponsors. * Supports requirements of the enterprise program manager to provide necessary information and support for successful program delivery. * Creates all project planning documentation and follows all CareFirst Defined processes. * Manages and communicates a clear vision of the projects objectives, and motivate the cross functional project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by the entire team. * Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities. Coordinates team activities to meet project milestones. * Directs/leads project teams comprised of subject matter experts, technical specialists, and support staff to produce a business plan in accordance with the strategic plan, operating budget, capital planning procedures and agency guidance. * Prepares, implements, monitors, and updates the project plan. Coordinates with the business owner and upper level management to ensure the actions are consistent with the approved plan. * Identifies standards or requirements for change management. Participates in change control (for example, reviewing configuration change requests). * Develops or implements information systems security and entitlement requirements and plans; and ensures appropriate product-related training and documentation are developed and made available to customers. * *Manages resource assignment and tracking to the project plan and project schedule in coordination with the line of business resource managers. *Negotiate the performance of activities with team members and their managers in a matrix environment. *Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables; mentor others in project management practices; review quality of work and manage the integration of team members’ work. Manages the Project Budget with overall budget accountability for up to $4 million per year. * Collaborates with the finance department and various functional managers to ensure project budgets are properly estimated and controlled; provides overall financial recommendations, and develop controls and measurements to monitor progress. * Provides Finance with monthly accruals and forecasts by the due date established by Finance using the tools developed by Finance. *Maintains current statements of work for all contractors; track and approve contractor invoices in a timely manner. * Provides regular updates to project sponsor and stakeholders on the status of the budget. * Documents reasons for budget excess or shortfall. * Manages project budgets for both expense and capital against the original project budget. * Creates Executive Summaries for all contractor resources required to complete a project. Requirements: * This position requires a four-year degree in CIS/MIS or equivalent experience of 3 - 5 years of related IT project management experience in a large scale, cross functional, multi-system environment. Out of the 3 - 5 years required, at least 2 years in a combination of the following: * Progressive broad-based information systems Project Management experience (which could include consulting) with state-of-the-art hardware and software systems is desirable; knowledge and implementation experience in new computing architectures and networked computing structures. * Experience in execution of multiple related development projects simultaneously, particularly as Project Manager on systems development, with working knowledge of Systems development lifecycle and the Project Management Lifecycle. * Experience managing portal technology projects is preferred. Business Justification: The current project manager for the Portal Trunkline CI is transitioning to a new role. There are over 6 projects in flight with portal requirements. In addition there are outstanding defects and additional functionality for the Member portal that is outside of these projects. A new PM is required to help manage these efforts and ensure deliverables on time *Thanks and Regards,* * Sathish RecruiterIT Staffing.Net – An EcomNets Company 2553 Dulles View Drive Suite 240, Herdon, VA 20171 Email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* | Website: ** www.itstaffing.net* <http://www.itstaffing.net/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KNOW.IT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/know_it_az?hl=en.
