Job Description :
Title: Senior IT Project Manager (Govt Education Domain)
Location: Jackson, MS (Remote)
Duration: Long term
Position type: Contract

This position will require a qualified Project Manager to take the lead in the following tasks:

Manage IT Projects to include defining projects, tracking progress and status reporting

Establish and maintain Project Managements Standards

Develop a comprehensive project repository to improve the ability to estimate resources for future IT projects

Establish and maintain an Enterprise Project Portfolio containing multiple projects

Requirements Management: gathering, analysis, organization and reporting

Documentation of new development (User Guide, Systems Guide, other)

Coordinate activities across different organizational functions
Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team

Must be able to collaborate with Senior Management and other Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, QA

Team, and developers to ensure requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations

Knowledge of PMI standards and Processes, and success in managing IT projects

Use of project management and work management tools such as Azure DevOps and Git

Experience with Information Technology Project Management and K-12 Education

Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification from the Project

Management Institute (PMI)

Must be familiar with software and database development concepts to include test cases, quality assurance, creation of

diagrams, flowcharts and work flows of business processes and data flow

Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for

development team. Documents include Formal Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design

Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases.

Provide hands-on project management of enterprise-wide projects including all phases of project life cycle and/or software

development life cycle as well as support a project management team

Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation

Strong experience in developing Business Cases, Benefit Analysis, and identifying Risks

             

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