Project Manager in Sacramento, CA

About this Position:

Job Title: Project Manager

Educational Background:

• Required: Must meet educational requirements: Possession of a bachelor's degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis (must be documented).

Required Qualifications:

• The Project Manager (PM) must have a minimum three years' experience in the last six years managing teams and/or programs that perform directly relevant experience, including managing a medium or large, similarly complex project to successful completion. performing project management and the following tasks:.

  • Managing technical staff in IT projects, developments, enhancements or IT activities similar to the tasks associated with this Contract.

  • Collaborating with team to identify technical issues and provide recommendations.

  • Analyzing users' needs and finding solutions to serve them.

  • Ensuring smooth functioning of technical operations.

  • Monitoring and evaluating Team progress.

  • Setting goals and ensuring overall client satisfaction.

  • Providing technical leadership to Team through proper project management, coaching, training and mentorship.

  • Project planning.

  • Executing the project and project deliverables.

  • Managing schedule(s).

  • Overseeing and managing the Contract budget.

  • Preparing documents and presenting to all levels of staff and management.

  • Ensure completion of project tasks.

  • Assessing business, technical, and enterprise architecture artifacts, tools, and environments.

  • Coordinating, facilitating, attending and documenting regular project meetings and openly communicating to inform status, provide recommendations and discuss next steps and actions needed to perform tasks.

  • Developing, presenting and timely completing project deliverables.

  • Working collaboratively with Team and other Energy Safety staff as needed.

  • Provide knowledge transfer and training.

  • Making recommendations which support the Energy Safety IT enterprise.

• The PM must have a minimum one year of experience in the last three years managing the state client's information technology project involving application enhancement development.

• The PM must have a minimum of two years' experience in the last three years managing a project using an Agile methodology.

• The PM must possess a Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Two or more consecutive years of experience not listed within mandatory qualifications, in the last 10 years providing project management consultative services to the State Departments.