Project Manager

DESCRIPTION:

This position will require a qualified Project Manager to take the lead in the following tasks:

·        Manage IT Projects to include defining projects, tracking progress and status reporting

·        Establish and maintain Project Managements Standards

·        Develop a comprehensive project repository to improve the ability to estimate resources for future IT projects

·        Establish and maintain an Enterprise Project Portfolio containing multiple projects

·        Requirements Management: gathering, analysis, organization and reporting

·        Documentation of new development (User Guide, Systems Guide, other)

·        Coordinate activities across different organizational functions

Required Skills:

·        Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team

·        Must be able to collaborate with Senior Management and other Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, QA

·        Team, and developers to ensure requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations

·        Knowledge of PMI standards and Processes, and success in managing IT projects

·        Use of project management and work management tools such as Azure DevOps and Git

·        Experience with Information Technology Project Management and K-12 Education is a plus

·        Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification from the Project

·        Management Institute (PMI)

·        Must be familiar with software and database development concepts to include test cases, quality assurance, creation of

·        diagrams, flowcharts and work flows of business processes and data flow

·        Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for

·        development team. Documents include Formal Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design

·        Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases.

·        Provide hands-on project management of enterprise-wide projects including all phases of project life cycle and/or software

·        development life cycle as well as support a project management team

·        Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation

·        Strong experience in developing Business Cases, Benefit Analysis, and identifying Risks

Preferred:

·        Project Management Certification

·        Scrum

·        Agile