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 assist with supporting a multi-year high priority project.

Tasks

• Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives, managers and project team members.
• 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 management, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.
• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment.
• Responsible for working with the project team members to develop and maintain the following key SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) deliverables throughout the project lifecycle:
• Project Charter - Project Schedule Project Budget - Communication Plan - Project Status Report - Risk and Issue Management Plans - Change Requests - Project Closedown Summary
• Responsible for managing interfaces related communication with other agencies
• Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the SUITE PMM and System Engineering Methodology (SEM), including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle.
• 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 ensuring related project artifacts are updated accordingly.
• 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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast paced, multi-vendor deployment supporting a hybrid workforce (combination of on-site and remote work) at all levels of the organization.
• Applicants should possess exceptional communication and follow up skills along with significant experience in formal IT project management.

NOTE: Local candidates within 90 minutes of Dimondale ONLY. Position will be hybrid, in office 2 days a week upon start and there is NO REMOTE ONLY option. Candidates submitted must be willing to come onsite (Dimondale, MI) for interviews.

Location: Dimondale, MI (Hybrid)

Contract: 1+ years

Skills Required:

• 7+ years - Knowledge of and experience in IT project management, including industry standard and best practices
• 7+ years - Proven record for delivering projects on time and on budget in a formal project manager role
• 7+ years - Experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, risk and issue logs
• 5+ years - Experience using a project portfolio management systems and tools (eg.) Clarity
• 5+ years - Advanced working knowledge of MS Project
• 7 years - Experience developing and delivering project status
• 5 years - Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments.
• 5 years - Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS)
• 5 years - Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment.
• Bachelor s Degree (Please include on your resume)

Skills Desired A plus to have:

• Possession of a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

*** Rate depends on experience

*** Candidates authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We can accept H1b, , TN, and other valid work visas for IT. However, we cannot accept OPT or CPT visas at this time.

*** Companies submitting candidates should only submit direct W2 employees for this position.

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