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ID #45836617
State Michigan
City Lansing
Job type Contract
Salary USD $0 - $0 0 - 0
Source IO Datasphere
Showed 2022-09-20
Date 2022-09-19
Deadline 2022-11-17
Category Et cetera
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Project Manager

Michigan, Lansing, 48901 Lansing USA

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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 to lead the project team responsible for achieving the project objectives. The PM plans, manages, and communicates project activities ensuring the project is delivered according to the project scope, schedule, and budget as defined in the project charter. This role works closely with client management and technical teams and business teams in the delivery of the project while meeting or exceeding customer expectations. Candidate Must have excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities
  • Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
  • Accountable and responsible for clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders, particularly the project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and client management, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.
  • Accountable for efficient and effective ongoing communication with the vendor throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment. Advocates as necessary to ensure project success.
  • Responsible for working with the project team members to develop and maintain deliverables throughout the project lifecycle
  • Responsible for project health and quality by adhering to established quality and compliance processes.
  • Responsible for actively evaluating the project to anticipate, identify, evaluate, and mitigate project risks and issues. Escalates risks and issues when needed.
  • Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget. This includes ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated.
  • Responsible for creating project Corrective Action Plans (CAP) when necessary for projects in Yellow or Red status.
  • Responsible for understanding the project benefits and the impact of change requests to the benefits business cases.
  • Responsible for project team adherence to information governance activities.
  • Responsible for understanding project interdependencies and ensuring appropriate and timely discussions and actions occur when a project change may have an impact.
  • Responsible for completion of the project tailoring process to determine the PMM and SEM deliverables for the project.
  • Responsible for following the project Notice of Decision procedure for all major project decisions, including a Build vs. Buy decision.
  • Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.
  • Facilitates the interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.
  • Functions as the Scrum Master for Agile projects, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint demos, and sprint retrospectives

Location: Lansing, MI (Candidates willing to relocate at their own expense are welcome, however, candidates must reside/live in Lansing, MI on Day One Must be available for hybrid schedule (onsite 2 days per week).Contract: 1 year

Skills Required:
  • 5 years - Recent IT Development Project Management experience within the last 5 years (Not recent Program Management or Scrum Master experience)
  • 7 years - Documented experience in successfully managing IT projects (full project lifecycle) COTS/SaaS projects > $2 Million
  • 5 years - Proven record of delivery project on time and on budget
  • 4 years - Managing of IT Agile development projects
  • 5 years - Experience performing scope management for projects, including a disciplined change control
  • 5 years - Experience performing issues management across multiple departments
  • 3 years - Experience creating and executing implementation plans
  • 3 years - Understanding of SEI Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

Skills Desired – A plus to have:
  • PMP or other Certification
  • 5 years - Experience in managing IT projects in a government environment
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. This includes H1B visa candidates and therefore your company must be the visa sponsor. Please submit your resume by using the "URL" below

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