Project Manager for Special Projects
Philadelphia, PA
5+ Months
Position overview / Statement of Work
The Project Manager for Special Projects is needed to analyze and document business needs and processes, organize around problem/opportunity, plan and remediate troubled special projects, and ensure new initiatives are planned, launched, and executed correctly in support of efforts by the CIO.
Work activities:
- Develop, clarify, and manage the scope of the project, define contract deliverables and achieve targeted outcomes.
- Ensure project requirements are achieved in a timely fashion and within budget guidelines.
- Assemble project team, identify needed resources, assign responsibilities, and develop timeframes to facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables.
- Determine project costs/ensures delivery on time and within budgetary guidelines.
- Ensure compatibility and consistency with existing architectural and enterprise standards.
- Perform cost/benefit analysis of actions and initiatives.
- Schedule and document meeting minutes.
- Follow the Project Management practice and prescribed SDLC.
- Prepare status reports, status summaries and dashboards for presentation to mid and senior level management.
- Provide support, coaching and mentoring on project management best practices, as requested for
- project coordinator associates.
Skills/experience of the assigned staff:
Required
Demonstrate leadership qualities such as conflict/issue resolution, the ability to run a project or serve as project manager on a program team and can ensure a successful project lifecycle.
Communicate (verbally and in writing) effectively with stakeholders and senior business leadership of departments and agencies participating in this project.
Organize and work effectively with project teams of staff from department and agencies participating in this effort.
Demonstrate experience and relevant expertise in the design and building of distributed and enterprise solutions.
Plan, organize and direct the work activities of outside consultants and/or systems analysis and programming personnel assigned on a team.
Demonstrate presentation skills, strategic thinking, and high professional ethics.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, departmental officials,
outside consultants and vendors.
The principles of project management, systems delivery life cycle and budgeting.
Concepts and applications of servers, storage, mainframes, monitoring, ITIL, metrics and performance management, disaster recovery, data center facilities management, managed services, and cloud computing.
IT project management best practice, principles and techniques. (PMBOK).
IT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER- ONSITE- Locals to Philadelphia ONLY