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NJTECH is a globally managed IT services, IT consulting and business solutions partner. Our "High Performance Business" strategy builds our expertise in technology and consulting. We play a major role in helping our clients to achieve their objectives at the highest level; ultimately creating sustainable value to customers.
Role: Project Manager with Public Sector Experiences
Location: Remote
Duration: Long term
Key Responsibilities
- Manage, coordinate, and establish priorities for the complete life cycle of projects, including the planning, design, programming, testing, and implementation of business solutions designed to meet the requirements of various Bureaus and Offices within the State of Maine.
- Design project plans, which identify needs and define major tasks and milestones, based on scope, resources, budget, and personnel.
- Determine project needs and acquires resources required for the success of the project.
- Coordinate the development of new systems and/or application projects, the modification of existing systems or applications, or changes in current methods or techniques.
- Coordinate project performance with the other work of the affected department or departments.
- Deliver results in the initiative 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, negotiate 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 the 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, and 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.
- Promotes the benefits of change and act as a catalyst for change within the organization, as well as adapt to changes imposed by others.
- Organizes and guide the activities of the project team.
- Prioritizes tasks to meet deliverables and commitments on time.
- Ensures that the project members time and experience are well utilized.
- Recommends alternatives/options to minimize any schedule delay.
- Shares project experience/knowledge and mentor others to help build project management skills.
Skills:
- Requires proven success communicating verbally and in writing to multiple project stakeholders, internal and external, within the organization.
- 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.
- In depth knowledge/understanding of the PM methodology and a broad understanding/awareness of SDLC methodologies.
- Experience working with Maine State Government, other state government, or similar public sector organization.
Top Skills:
- Experience in technology project implementation.
- In depth knowledge/understanding of the PM methodology.
- Understands SDLC methodologies.
- State government experience.
NJTECH is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
NJTECH is a globally managed IT service, IT consulting and Business solutions partner. Our "High Performance Business" strategy builds our expertise in technology and consulting. Our offshore consulting plays a major role in helping clients to achieve their objectives in the highest level; ultimately creating sustainable value to customers. Come, transform your career with us and be a part of our high-performing team.
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