IT Project Manager

Job Title: - IT Project Manager

Job Location: - Atlanta, GA

Workplace type: Hybrid

Employment type: - 12+ Months Contract

Job Description:

• Oversees and controls, schedules, resources, scope, and risks. Ensure stakeholders take the necessary steps to achieve the goals and objectives of the project.
• Work with the project steering committee and senior project management to resource the project tasks.
• Work with State NextGen PMO and quality assurance team to extend the expected project standards, procedures, and quality objectives to the agency level.
• Chairs, manages, or facilitates agency project meetings, communicating individual roles and project expectations.
• Ensure that all project team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively.
• Manage scope by using a variety of data sources to support project negotiations related to time, scope, and/or quality.
• Develops, monitors and coordinates project activities, such as scheduling, tracking, and reporting; leads change efforts impacting own projects.
• Works with senior project management to Identify specific opportunities or weaknesses within assigned projects and makes specific change recommendations to structures, processes, or people to improve project performance.
• Provides work direction and leadership to assigned project activities, including scheduling, assignment of work, and review of project efforts.
• Monitors project milestones and critical dates to identify potential jeopardy of project schedule.
• Identify ways to resolve schedule issues. Keeps management aware of the situation.
• Assesses variances from the project plan, gathers metrics and develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within the specified scope and is within time, cost, and quality objectives.
• Conduct a formal review with a business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
• Provide the team with constructive feedback as it pertains to project performance.
• Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with project sponsors, vendors, and key clients.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field or specialized training and three years of IT project management or equivalent IT team leadership experience.
• PMP certification from PMI or equivalent certification
• 5 years' experience leading projects of high complexity (must have occurred in the last 2 years).
• Expert with MS Project, MS Visio, SharePoint, and all MS O365 Software
• Experience working in state government
• Experience working in an outsourced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a related field
• Experience within the last 5 years leading/coordinating vendor-managed projects

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