IT - Project Manager IV

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Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field preferred.
• PMP or ITIL certification preferred.
• 6-8 years experience in using formal project management methodology, techniques and tools required.
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple concurrent large or complex projects.
• Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining project deliverables: project charter, project plan, status reports, estimates, communication plan, reports, risk management plan, budget, schedule and milestone/deliverable charts.
• Demonstrated experience in managing issues, scope, and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements.
• Proficiency with project management software tools such as Microsoft Project.
• Demonstrated expertise in team building and leading teams.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinates, plans, supports, and executes enterprise-wide IT projects.
• Provides strategic input for project plan development, budget, and scope.
• Manages the Project Management Life Cycle from beginning to end and establishes cohesion for achieving multi-disciplinary stakeholder and project team buy-in.
• Applies industry-accepted methodologies (i.e., Project Management Institute [PMI]) to ensure adherence to project management standards and requirements and to provide stakeholders with continual reports on project progress and performance.
• Assists and supports Project Management Office (PMO) employees.
• Performs project management research to improve and refine skills and to identify trends and best practices for improving PMO performance.
• Meets with stakeholders to validate business cases and to gather facts for establishing and gaining agreement on project charters.
• Creates project charters and analyzes business cases to validate and clarify issues, justify use of project resources and to anticipate risks.
• Consults with project sponsors to clarify project directives, scopes, deliverables, and timelines and to analyze risk.
• Conducts bid sessions and/or vendor RFP efforts to select and manage suppliers and supplier payments.
• Applies PM tools and methodologies to ensure project milestones are achieved and scope is maintained.
• Observes project team dynamics to ensure effective team member synergies and to resolve issues.
• Creates progressive project milestones for facilitating smaller-scale achievements and to motivate the project team.
• Gathers and analyzes project metrics to evaluate project performance and to manage issues, risk and changes of scope.
• Communicates with stakeholders, senior management, and project leaders to review project progress, discuss issues and resolutions and to authorize scope changes.
• Utilizes PM tools to manage project timelines and accuracy, ensure project resource commitments are met, and to track activities and variances.
• Performs assessments throughout projects to identify risks and potential impact and to develop response strategies for managing and mitigating risk factors.
• Closes project contracts to validate supplier statements of work (SOWs) and verify deliverables.
• Conducts project management research and studies trends and developments under the direction of the PMO Director to support PMO team members and industry colleagues.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.
• Determine project goals and priorities in consultation with Governance committees, CIO, EHCIS Directors and Managers, LITS Directors, Vendors or other key stakeholders.
• Assist in selecting project team members.
• Coach team members to clarify assignments and deliverables.
• Review quality of work and manage the integration of team members work.
• Provide performance input to the team members functional manager.
• Create a project charter with the project team.
• Manage and communicate a clear vision of the projects objectives and motivate the project team to achieve them.
• Create a project environment to enable team success.
• Coordinate the activities of the team(s) to meet project milestones.
• Organize the project(s) work and determine an effective approach to completing it.
• Compile a complete and accurate estimate of the project(s).
• Prepare a project plan and obtain the appropriate approvals.
• Analyze risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigation action with stakeholders.
• Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external customers to reassess and amend the scope of work requirement, budget, and/or timeline.
• Track and report on the progress of plan, cost, schedule, and scope changes.
• Analyze actual performance against the project plan and make adjustments consistent with plan objectives.
• Analyze the original estimate against actual hours and duration; provide justification for variance.
• Manage relationships with project stakeholders, internal and external customers and vendors, keeping them informed of progress and issues to manage expectations on project requirements and deliverables.
• Involve functional expertise and subject matter experts in design reviews and key decisions.
• Manage change to preserve the commitments in the plan.
• Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities, and amongst differing projects when multiple projects are being managed.
• Oversee and share all project documentation.
• Provide team training as needed on the documentation.
• Analyze lessons learned and share with PMO and other project managers.
• Determine what constitutes a successful project closure and acquire sign-off by all parties when attained.