Project Manager - Must be Local to San Francisco, CA

MUST BE LOCAL TO SAN FRANCISCO, CA

MUST HAVE SKILLS:

• Experience with project templates, job aids, training materials
• Understanding of delivery project management start to finish
• Collaborative/Agile: not afraid to follow up, chasing people, comfortable in doing proactive outreach to get answers, bring people together to review processes
• Good Researcher: able to go online search for best practices

Required Experience

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or equivalent experience
• 3+ years experience managing one or more small to medium complexity IT product / infrastructure projects
• Fully competent in understanding and applying project management principles and methodologies
• Previous experience managing projects that delivers Information Technology infrastructure including computing, telecommunications, networking, data center, security, voice, and data communications.
• Resource planning, scheduling and tracking skills
• Ability to function and manage in a matrixed environment
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and collaboration skills
• Cost management expertise
• Team player
• Organized and analytical.
• Experienced in problem-solving.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project, Excel and Word
• Experience with Primavera, PPMC, SAP and Microsoft Visio a plus

Roles and responsibilities:

Responsible for managing and optimizing the project templates, job aids and training materials.
Responsible for the concurrent management of one or more small to medium-sized projects. These projects are one-time, multitask jobs that have clearly defined start and end dates, a specific scope of work, a budget, required resources, and a specified performance objective to be achieved. Specific responsibilities include:

• Exercises independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance with moderate scope and complexity
• Responsible for leading one or more projects typically between $100,000 - $2,000,000
• Gathering, defining and documenting project requirements
• Clearly defining and communicating roles, responsibilities and expectations for all members of the project team
• Obtaining and defining staffing requirements and forming project teams
• Independently planning all associated work to meet project goals
• Providing direction and leadership to project management analysts and schedulers
• Conducting project kick-off meetings
• Communicating individual project roles and expectations
• Recording, tracking and communicating issues, risks, changes, and status reports within standard tool
• Accurately and consistently forecasting project resource, material and contract costs within a standard tool(s)
• Driving all project related tasks to completion
• Developing and maintaining up-to-date detailed project schedules and work plans
• Monitoring critical project milestones, and identifying ways to resolve schedule issues
• Coordinating any required contract work within defined client policy
• Conducting site visits and walk downs as needed
• Assessing project performance and implementing changes as necessary to ensure the projects remains within specified cost, schedule, scope and quality objectives
• Communicating status of all projects to stakeholders and management
• Developing and maintaining a productive working relationship with project sponsors, vendors and key clients
• Resolving problems of project specific scope within procedural guidelines
• Preparing all project documentation for closure, storage, and possible auditing activities, ensuring technical accuracy