Job Description
Job Title : Project Manager
Remote
Job Description: Desire candidate with strong leadership skills and experience supporting technical teams delivering technical solutions on complex IT projects in a highly matrixed agile organization. Projects may involve formal proof of concept testing, IT security network infrastructure, data and/or database encryption and /or products selection and implementation; IT security risks assessments and remediation activities efforts ; and IT software system product development and integration deliveries.
Responsibilities: • Take a proactive leadership role in the project, partnering with business partners to drive a project to completion
• Identify, communicate, and resolve technical, tactical, and operational project issues and risks
• Exhibit intellectual agility and interpersonal flexibility to reassess, reflect and shift thinking as projects or strategic direction changes
• Facilitate project team and client meetings for the resolution of project related issues
• Ensure effective management of projects from inception through implementation
• Adhere to project management best practices by following the policies, procedures and methodologies established within the Systems Development Life Cycle
• Prepare and deliver status reports regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues to management and stakeholders
• Oversee project progress to ensure project documentation and schedules follow previously agreed requirements and standards
• Communicate project plan, changes, direction, approach, and priorities based on changing business requirements, circumstances, new information and/or budget considerations to stakeholders
• Full life-cycle project/workstream management
o Facilitate creation/finalization of project plan/scope/schedule/cost/communications
to Ensure that vendor meets or exceeds their contractual obligations by delivering quality products/services on time and within cost structure
o Manage all financial management aspects of vendor delivery and provide feedback on vendor performance
o Ensure successful project implementation
o Manage project-level risks, issues, dependencies, and change management
Qualifications Required: • Agile certification
• Advanced skill in project management to include establishing and leading project teams; managing timelines/deadlines/resources; ensuring successful project implementation
• Experience in IT resource allocation and management
• Significant experience of self-activation, working independently
• Significant experience working and participating in cross-functional, multi-dimensional teams and projects
• Significant experience in managing multiple priorities independently and/or in a team environment to achieve goals
• Advanced presentation skills with essential executive presence
• Significant experience in leading, guiding and coaching professional staff
• Experience in vendor engagement related to project delivery
• Advanced skill building effective relationships through rapport, trust, diplomacy, and tact
• Advanced research, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Advanced skill using innovative thinking to solve problems and facilitate the decision-making process
• Advanced organizational, planning and time management skills
• Advanced skill exercising initiative and using good judgment to make sound decisions
• Advanced skill communicating with all levels within an organization
• Advanced skill resolving conflicting requests and meeting changing requirements
• Advanced word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software skills
• Project Management Professional, Scrum Master, or other project management-related certification
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