Title ; Project Manager with state / government project experience
12+ months contract
Remote (but need to be within 2 to 3 hours of Augusta, ME)
***So only consider people located in ME, NH, or North of Boston, MA
***Looking for candidate with prior state / government project experience
Looking for a Project Manager for a 12+ month contract with possible extensions.
Candidates will need to work onsite in Augusta Maine once a month
Top 3 Skills:
Experience in large scale technology project implementation - Enterprise environments
Experience working with multiple teams
State or Federal Government experience
Key Responsibilities:
Project Management:
Deliver results within established timeframes and quality measures.
Prepare new or remediated project assets that may be managed by an executing PM.
Direct resources on assigned projects and ensure clarity of project roles and responsibilities.
Identify project stakeholders and manage communication with the project stakeholders.
Consult with business leaders to translate a project idea into a defined project with goals, objectives, and scope.
Identify resources needed, negotiates with people managers as required to lead project teams, ensuring clarity of project roles and responsibilities, so that all project plans are completed within defined timeframes, meeting objectives and strategic goals.
Develop and implement communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks, and timely delivery of initiative results.
Translates project goals/objectives into a defined future state and project success measures that can be understood by project stakeholders, project team and others.
Ensure business needs and objectives are effectively captured in functional and non-functional business requirements for a system and/or process/workflow.
Oversee business requirements to meet expected business solutions and trace delivery of requirements through testing and final implementation, with mentoring by a more experienced project manager, as needed.
General understanding of business requirement management and quality management in order to meet expected business solutions.
Manage project quality through activities such as conducting appropriate reviews, obtaining approvals, taking corrective action when necessary, with mentoring by a more experienced project manager, if applicable.
Ensure that project documentation is complete and current.
Articulate project management best practices with peer group, as applicable
Leadership:
Proactively establishes and maintains cooperative, productive partnerships on current project/deliverables.
Promote the benefits of change and act as a catalyst for change within the organization, as well as adapts to changes imposed by others.
Organize and guides the activities of the project team. Prioritizes tasks to meet deliverables and commitments on time.
Ensures that project member’s time and experience is well utilized.
Recommends alternatives/options to minimize any schedule delay.
Share project experience/knowledge and mentor others to help build project management skills.
Skills:
Proven experience in technology project implementation.
Any combination of education or experience equivalent to a bachelor’s degree with five years of project management experience.
This position is within the PMO, project flexibility and multiple projects may be assigned as needed.
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