| Duties & Responsibilites : | General Description:-
The client is seeking a qualified Senior Project Manager to lead the implementation project to a successful completion. The Project Manager will serve as business partner and liaison with senior leadership. They will be responsible for leading and directing the project which requires a high level of cross-functional integration.
Project Management experience:-
- 6 to 10 years of Project Management experience in progressively complex projects with a development cost range of $1M and up and a duration of between 18 months and 3 years.
- Experience recovering a troubled project.
- Experience managing technical and business team members.
- Experience implementing FileNet or a similar product dealing with imaging, content management, workflow and case management.
Education requirements:-
- Bachelor’s degree Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, IT, Computer Science and Management Information Systems or a related field from an accredited college or university.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
Required Personal Characteristics:-
- Ability to lead combined with good judgment
- Strong technical writing skills
- Strong communications skills
- Skilled at gathering and organizing data and developing and presenting findings
- Collaborative approach with influencing skills
- Ability to plan a course of action to ensure the accomplishment of specific objectives
- Analytical and a skillful problem-solver
Major Responsibilities:-
- Develop a project recovery plan and obtain approval from the business owner in order to formalize the recovery approach.
- Validate business requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders in order to establish the project deliverables.
- Develop a project schedule and obtain approval from the team members and business owner.
- Manage changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, updated, reflective of authorized project changes as defined in the change management plan, and facilitate business owner acceptance.
- Execute the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals.
- Work with infrastructure and network service providers to ensure all environments are stable and working.
- Ensure a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Project Plan, in order to align the stakeholders and team members. Implement the approved actions and workarounds required to mitigate project risk events in order to minimize the impact of the risks on the project.
- Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques in order to monitor the progress of the project, identify and quantify any variances, perform any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.
- Formalize final acceptance for the project from the business owner/executive sponsor by ensuring that the delivered end-product and services comply with the agreed deliverables list, agreed scope, and any organizational procedures in order to close contractual obligations.
- Follow project management methodology using the standards, policies, and guidelines set forth by the Georgia Technology Authority (GTA).
- Prepare monthly dashboards and report to the GTA Critical Project Review Panel. |
