Position: Project Manager
Duration:12 Months
Location: Richmond, VA- Hybrid.
Responsibilities:
- Manage work breakdown structures and Azure DevOps and/or Microsoft Project tasks to coordinate work necessary to complete project milestones. Must apply discipline and consistency to continually add, update, and manage tasks, task assignments, task statuses, and task estimates.
- Produce project schedules, budget projections, and status reports based on detailed project data.
- Manage projects utilizing a team of in-house and vendor technical staff performing software development, infrastructure upgrades and migrations, implementations, and other technical projects to deliver line-of-business functionality for both internal VDACS users and citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Develop and manage project plans, risk plans, communication plans, and other formal project management documents.
- Coordinate activities of internal and external technical teams between stakeholders, including vendor partners, for projects as needed.
- Identify changes to scope, budget, or time-line, notify customers of risks, make modifications and resolve problems within a mutually agreed upon timeliness.
- Maintain project status information and provide project status reports to Information Systems management and project stakeholders.
- Ensure that project activities comply with VDACS and Commonwealth policies and standards, including security standard and required documentation
Minimum Qualifications:
- PMP OR VITA PMD Project Manager Qualification (level 1-4) Required.
- Experience managing software development projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Experience managing projects in a technical environment, particularly in an information systems or software development environment.
- Experience managing vendor and contractor resources in coordination with internal staff resources.
- Knowledge of and ability to apply one or more formal project management disciplines such as the PMP Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Project + framework, PRINCE2 methodologies, or other industry recognized project management framework.
- Capable of producing well-documented project plans, risk management plans, change management plans, work breakdown structures, budgets, and project status reports.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to include the ability to clearly communicate project status and planning concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. The demonstrated ability to effectively interact with, and provide customer service to, all levels of the organization, customers and partners.