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Job Description
Live Assets IT Staffing Solutions is hiring a Senior IT Project Manager for one of our government clients.
In this position, you will be responsible for coordinating and completing IT projects, overseeing all aspects, from setting deadlines to monitoring project progress. Building strong working relationships with team members, vendors, and relevant departments is crucial. Additionally, you will prepare reports for upper management to communicate project status.
Key Responsibilities
- Compile project charters and business/project plans to support activities, including the most suitable approach to be used in the development of each applicable project, to ensure business objectives and data integrity are achieved.
- Manage project(s) that will document business requirements, design and deliver IT solutions that are compliant with and contribute to the enterprise architecture.
- Assist with the development of recommendations including providing details of resource requirements, dependencies, interdependencies, policy implications pertaining to internal/external influences and the methodology to be applied.
- Produce and package deliverables for presentation to various internal support teams, steering committee, and other project stakeholders.
- Manage multiple projects, project resources and project governance.
- Work with project sponsors to ensure that effective project communication exists through the duration of the project including escalation of risks as required.
- Take responsibility for ongoing client satisfaction – manage peer-level client relationships and overcome hurdles to ensure win-win solutions.
- Collaborate with business and IT leadership to develop a well-defined project plan that clearly states the project’s objectives, scope, assumptions, timeline, resource requirements, risks, benefits and budget.
- Work with project sponsors and the project management office to develop a project organization structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders.
- Document and report project status against established objectives, milestones, budget and resources and facilitate tracking and closure of issues and risks.
- Develop project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans and take corrective action for completion of project tasks.
- Provide guidance to project resources in establishing work priorities and prompt delivery of project tasks.
- Develop, as required, related requirements documentation.
- In collaboration with project sponsors, assess whether the project achieved stated outcomes and identify opportunities for improvement for future similar projects.
- Provide leadership and assistance to business and project teams that require change management and communication support.
- Work within the standards defined by the project management office and in the absence of standards work with the project management office to define new standards.
Necessary Skills
- 8 years of experience managing custom application development projects with at least 10 team members.
- 8 years of experience working as a Project Manager on a large complex custom software application development projects, within an environment comparable in complexity to the government projects.
- Experience managing multiple projects concurrently.
- Experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk logs and project closures.
- Experience defining project scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.
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