IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide.

Our client is looking for a Project Manager. The Project Manager will be responsible for a $20 million modernization project, which will be highly complex, require extensive change and vendor management skills, and experience with Microsoft DevOps.

Tasks:

• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams.
• Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework.
• Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor.
• Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics.
• Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities.
• Documents risks and develops mitigation plans.
• Manages scope.
• Creates and implements a communication plan.
• Builds an effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes.
• Negotiates resources.
• Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor.
• Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers.
• Provides technical support to project members.
• Handles complex application features and technical designs.
• Designs and implements the components required for complex application features.
• Manages a group of applications system analysts.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Provides overall direction to the formulation, development, implementation, and delivery of a project.
• Exercises management responsibility over the achievement of performance, revenue, and profit objectives of a project and its contracts.
• Ensures that the project plan maintains tasks, schedules, estimates, and status, and disseminates information to team members and customers.
• Creates a structure and organization for the management of a complex environment with emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency.
• Directs corrective actions in any area where performance falls below objectives.
• Arranges for the assignment of responsibility to other supporting facilities, business areas, and support functions, and monitors their performance.
• Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects.
• Oversees all aspects of projects.
• Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project.
• Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Clear and concise communication skills.
• Self-directed and independent.

NOTE: Local candidates only. Relocation not allowed. Hybrid Role with 2 days onsite from day 1 - Tuesday and Wednesday.

Location: Lansing, MI (Hybrid 2 days/week (Tuesday/Wednesday) on-site)

Contract: 1 year

Skills Required:

• 5 years - Experience managing projects with budgets greater than $5 million.
• 5 years - Agile Leadership Experience
• 10 years - Recent experience as a Project Manager.
• 2 years - Microsoft DevOps Experience.
• Experience working with other project managers to ensure technology integration between systems.
• Change Management / Vendor Management experience.
• PC, workstation, operating system, application or platform skills.
• Bachelor s Degree (please include on Resume)

Skills Desired A plus to have:

• Previous SOM experience
• Professional certification (please include on Resume)

***Rate depends on experience

*** Local candidates preferred, not mandatory

*** Candidates authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are not sponsoring H1B candidates at this time.

*** Companies submitting candidates should only submit direct W2 employees for this position.

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