Job Description :
Our direct client is looking for a Senior Program Manager for a Contract position in Harrisburg, PA.
ROLES:
Client is seeking to provide project management services to advance technology projects
The Senior Progect Manager will work with client’s existing project management methodology and will serve as a senior project manager on multiple highly-complex and high visibility projects. Communication, collaboration and management at the most senior level is required.
Specific Duties:
- Develop and maintain project control documents in accordance with enterprise project management methodologies, including: project charters, cost plans, capacity management plans, risk management plans, communications plans, governance plans, schedules, change management plans, knowledge management plans and quality assurance plans.
- Develop detailed project plans using project scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project.
- Lead all project plan development activities, including identification of phases, activities, tasks, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, schedules and assignment of resources
- Work closely with project team members, transit agency staff and stakeholders including but not limited to transit and IT operations, transit and IT management and transit and IT staff.
- Motivate project resources to complete assigned duties and tasks.
- Prepare formal reports on the status and health of the IT projects, including periodic status reports, management dashboards and project metrics.
- Monitor project quality, schedule and budget and facilitate actions to mitigate risk and address issues that arise.
- Facilitate the risk and issue management processes for IT projects by maintaining risk and issue logs, identifying risks and issues, communicating issues and risks according to project governance and working with project team members to ensure effective risk and issue management.
- Facilitate deliverable and project artifact approval processes for IT projects by tracking all deliverables and project artifacts that require approvals, communicating the need for approvals to the appropriate groups and individuals and tracking approval decisions and following up where need be to ensure approvals are achieved within established timeframes.
- Manage the project change control process for issues that impact the quality, schedule or budget of the project by: documenting change requests, securing approval for changes and documenting approved changes in accordance to project governance.
- Facilitate periodic and ah-hoc project meetings, including scheduling with appropriate team members, preparing agendas, recording action items and key decisions and preparing, circulating and seeking approval for meeting minutes.
Skills Matrix:
- Full-time experience as a project manager for large and complex information technology projects - Required - 5 Years
- Senior or lead project management experience including supervision of project management teams - Required - 2 Years
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate at all levels of an organization, including exect.staff - Required
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to make decisions and motivate others to complete tasks - Required
- PMP or similar project management certification - Desired
- Experience in utilizing iterative project management methodologies - Desired - 2 Years
- Experience in utilizing agile project management methodologies - Desired - 2 Years
- Full-time experience in the public transportation field and/or transit agency operations and management - Desired - 2 Years
Question 1: First round, in-person interviews are required for this position. Do you accept these conditions?
Question 2: Client prefers candidates local to the Harrisburg, PA Area. Do you understand?
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Type: Contract
Please send your resume to "jobs at etechnovision dot com" with A2263A in the subject for immediate consideration