Job Description :
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
· Proven knowledge, skills and abilities in:
· MS Project in order to develop detailed work plans, schedules
· Developing project estimates and resource plans
· Documenting coherent and concise project status reports including issues and risks
· Conducting project meetings and subsequently documenting/distributing meeting minutes and action item, including responsibilities for same, in a timely manner
· Progressing complex project schedules, identify and manage the project’s critical path, proactively identifying and escalating risks to project’s schedule, budget or quality
· Tracking project expenses, forecasting future spend, calculating estimates-at-complete and proactively advising of forecasted variances along with proposed corrective action
· Managing the participation of resources assigned to the project and holding them accountable for completing tasks in line with the effort and timeline estimates they provide – escalating issues proactively to resource’s manager to mitigate impacts to project expectations
· Managing a team of resources through all phases of the systems development life cycle including the production of deliverables associated with advancing through the phases
· Managing multiple major projects simultaneously utilizing standard project management processes as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI)
· PowerPoint presentation development
· Excel to support project budget estimation and forecasting
· Reviewing vendor’s statements of work for completeness and relevance to project objectives
· Managing vendors in the execution of their statement of work and holding them accountable; anticipating/escalating to direct supervisor if gaps or issues
· Requesting and obtaining commitments for project team resources, preferably via automated processes (ie., enterprise project management tools)
Desirable Technical / Functional Skills
· Defines project scope and objectives
· Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports
· Conducts project meetings and produces meeting minutes and issues logs
· Produces risk analysis and risk mitigation plans
· Responsible for project tracking and analysis
· Ensures adherence to Project Management Process, Systems Development Methodology and quality standards for producing project deliverables
· Provides project management, technical and analytical guidance to the project team
· Ensures quality deliverables are produced as planned.
· Should have experience working Daptiv, Microsoft project