Supervising Technical Project Manager

Description

• Apply risk mitigation strategies to the project plan to ensure overall project success
• Prepare documentation and lead client steering committee meetings
• Some lifting of files, opening cabinets.
• Provide all necessary data for tracking, planning and project evaluation to ensure data accuracy in project management tools
• Diligently monitor project progress using work plan and project plan tools
• Work closely with project team to effectively understand project progress and manage project tasks
• Ensure project meets the expected budgetary and scheduling guidelines
• Establishes, plans, and executes major milestone/deliverable reviews and decision gates to complete the project life cycle. Ensures all required deliverables are produced and reviewed, including the technical leadership of requirements management, design, implementation, verification, test, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and maintenance of the technical solution
• Provide supervision to a team of professionals, including providing mentorship, training enablement, 1:1 meetings, and timesheet approval
• Nurture client/stakeholder partnership to ensure overall satisfaction with the project
• Drives efforts to establish and implement best practices and consistent methodologies for technical processes and project management
• Effectively communicate project status and issues to management and present options for issue resolution
• Analyze project risks and inefficiencies and recommend improvements
• Participate in the recruitment and mentoring of more junior Project Managers and other staff.
• Ensure business case accurately reflects costs and is updated as changes occur; Usher the business case through the approval process and adhere to all standard procedures
• Provides process improvement recommendations and proactively shares lessons learned based on best practices and industry standards.
• Enforce change management practices to meet project timelines and client expectations
• Coordinate with all appropriate project stakeholder groups and personnel to ensure excellent delivery of projects
• Set up issue tracking structure and project boards to facilitate efficient and accurate project status reporting
• Actively contribute to the review of Requests for Proposal (RFP) by evaluating and authoring content for proposal responses

Requirements

• Knowledge of business and technology work processes and the ability to use this knowledge when consulting across organizations and client groups
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Computer science, information systems or a related field of study.
• Strong communications and presentation skills, including ability to summarize and concisely share key project information at all levels of the organization and with clients
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk, use hands to finger, handle objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; bending or crouching; talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, set direction, and solve problems in a fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to drive and coordinate the tasks of a large, matrixed project team which is geographically dispersed
• Project Management Professional certification
• A minimum of three-five (3-5) years in a supervisory role
• Proven ability to influence others and to build trusting relationships with clients and peers
• Strong skills in effectively managing all aspects of the project cost, schedule, risks and budget .
• Ability to manage projects with little supervision and provide status and issues to executives and upper management
• Strong initiative and creativity in gathering and analyzing project management-related data
• Strong ability to provide leadership/mentorship to other team members
• A minimum of eight (8) years directly related Project Management experience, preferably with teams of 5 - 15 staff including analysts, developers, QA, tech writers, and related personnel.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project management approaches
• Proven skills in program/project management
• Ability to create and maintain project plans and other project management documentation

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance