Contact Details:
1.Savitha Chinnappa
Email:
Cell: (732)
Job Title: Project Manager Location: Des Moines IA (Hybrid 3 Days/Week Onsite )
Duration: 12 Months
Years of Experience: 12 Yrs.
Required Hours/Week: 40hrs./Week
Notes:
- Need Local Candidates Or within 100 miles Only
Job Description:
- The project manager will be responsible for adhering to project management governance on multiple current and future projects. Additionally the PM will be accountable for generating project schedules identifying/staffing needed resourcing completing the procurement of vendor products / implementation services and submitting funding requests as required.
- The PM will manage the delivery efforts and report status of each within a common project reporting mechanism.
- The PM will work with multiple business and platform areas across the State potentially including upperlevel state government committees.
- The Project Manager will conduct project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis ensuring adherence to quality standards and project deliverables.
- The PM will be part of a PMO team responsible for all aspects of IT project governance assessment management and control.
- The ability to gather and define requirements build a project plan identifying resource needs and transparent clear communications across all levels of stakeholders.
- Essential is the ability to multitask on continually changing and morphing priorities as prescribed by leadership in response to department and legislative direction.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ability to work within a project governance structure (methodology required templates and reporting)
- Ability to interact with educate learn from and drive business and IT teams.
- Ability to work effectively under very broad direction with general supervision.
- Ability to motivate team and meet deadlines in a fastpaced and challenging environment.
- Ability to gather and organize multiple simultaneous complex business process scenarios.
- Ability to break down complex tasks into actionable work items sequenced appropriately.
- Ability to manage scope creep with a focus on delivering a minimum viable product.
- Excellent organizational presentation interpersonal and team building skills.
- Excellent time management and project planning/strategizing skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated experience with managing client expectations implementing service improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple parallel work efforts.
- Track project progress monitor and modify project schedules and provide status updates to project team. Escalate issues to management and/or appropriate leadership as appropriate.
- Provide insight and knowledge into improving processes related to portfolio project and program management.
- Other duties or tasks as assigned by management.
Skills | Required/Desired | Required Years of Experience | Candidate Years of Experience | Last Used |
Direct management of system integration projects | Required | 8 Years | | |
Experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities | Required | 8 Years | | |
Experience working within a project governance structure (methodology required templates and reporting) | Required | 8 Years | | |
Extensive experience with planning managing and tracking multiple major impact projects | Required | 8 Years | | |
Strong process development skills w/ the ability to learn and understand concepts in order to interpret document and formalize procedures | Required | 8 Years | | |
Strong process and gap analysis skills | Required | 8 Years | | |
Excellent project management skills w/ the ability to multitask and manage multiple tasks with changing priorities in a crossfunctional environment | Required | 8 Years | | |
Demonstrated experience with working with business users to gather and document business requirements | Required | 6 Years | | |
Demonstrate ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and project activities simultaneously while meeting established deadlines | Required | 6 Years | | |