Sr. Project Manager- REMOTE

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Sr. Project Manager- REMOTE for a Contract assignment with one of our premier Healthcare Services clients in Jacksonville, FL. Responsibilities :

• Responsible for the overall direction, management, communication, coordination of status reports, and accountability of project oriented work efforts and success of their projects across the IT organization.
• Focuses on technical projects related to the design, development, execution, implementation or maintenance of systems or software.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards and meet customer expectations.
• Create scope documents based on approved charters and project plans (work breakdown structures.)
• Track key milestones and adjust project plans, budget requests and/or resources to meet the needs of customers.
• Assigned to projects with multiple interdependencies and of moderate complexity, scope, risk and impact to the business
• Partner with IT technical staff and Business Sponsor to ensure the design accomplishes both business and technical requirements
• Accountable for managing and monitoring project performance of multiple projects with one or more internal and external dependencies, multiple scopes, including: providing guidance to Leadership and core team which consist of Business/IT and external entities.
• Manages Issues, Risk, Dependencies and Change Request following the established PMO guidelines.
• Identifies, negotiates, communicates and manages project changes. Reports status of project, including project risks, to customers, project team, supervisor, Project Offices, governance and other key staff
• Oversee product documentation and archiving and adheres to the Project Management standards for project closure.
• Responsible for managing external and vendor relationships (including the SOW) and managing to implementation of deliverables and schedules

• Bachelor's Degree in a Computer, Mathematics, or Business-related field or relevant work experience
• 5-8 years related work experience or equivalent combination of transferable experience and education as an IT Project
• Be a self-starter/hit the ground running
• Must have IT PM experience with technical Projects
• Candidates with Long Term roles in the past are a big plus
• Agile/Waterfall methodology knowledge
• SAFe
• Solid knowledge and experience in various Project Management and Product Development concepts, methodologies and processes
• Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities.
• Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly and articulately.
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• Understanding of and SDLC disciplines
• Understanding of the concepts, theories and processes of the Project Management Methodology.
• Broad knowledge of IT functions.
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of labor, cost management and project tracking and management tools such as MS Project.
• Ability to lead and facilitate project team status meetings to obtain schedule, issues, risk , and dependency updates.
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload.
• Strong Communications (written and verbal)
• Strong PC skills specifically utilizing the MS Office Suite products (e.g., MS Word, MS Excels, etc.).
• Expert in MS Project 2010
• Expert in MS Excel

• PMP certification preferred
• Various Domain experience; Health Care, Financial, etc
• Experience using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodology
• Specific tools, languages and specialty skills may vary