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One of our premier clients is looking for a PMP certified Project Manager in Richmond, VA (Onsite) for a Contract position. If interested, please submit your resume ASAP indicating (1) current location (2) desired hourly rate (3) Your email address.
RESPONSIBILITIES:- Ensure the project is delivered within scope, schedule, and budget acceptance rates
- Serve as the contact point for driving projects to successful completion by meeting the identified business needs of the agency.
- Create and maintain the project charter, project schedule, identify and update risks and issues, provide the project status report to key stakeholders, assist with other documentation, lead project team meetings, and conduct project “lessons learned” meetings to implement additional best practices.
- Provide project status reporting to the Program Manager and the Executive Steering Committee on a daily, weekly, monthly basis as needed.
- Responsible for the identification, analysis, tracking and recommending appropriate actions to project issues including those that are technology related.
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
- Work with customers to understand the overall objectives and how the project or initiative correlates with business goals and strategies.
- Collaborate with business partners, sponsors, assigned Business Analyst, and project team members to create the project charter, work breakdown structure (WBS), project schedule, evaluation and recommendations documents, communications plans, RACI documents, and other project artifacts as assigned.
- Assist the Procurement Officer and Program Manager with coordinating vendor proposal evaluations
- Perform special projects as assignments as required.
- Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud hosted SaaS implementation projects
- Strong experience leading business and IT resources through discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements in RFP and SOR formats
- Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills
- Exceptional interpersonal skills for collaborating and team building.
- Verbal and written communication skills with the ability to simplify and briefly, succinctly communicate complex issues to multiple audiences
- Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods
- Ability to define and balance the competing demands for quality, scope, schedule, and cost
- Ability to analyze and document system processes
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models
- Knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall principles and practices. Ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a particular project
- Knowledge of process engineering and re-engineering techniques and practices
- Extensive knowledge of project management best practice methodologies
- Extensive knowledge of evaluating and implementing COTS solutions with experience in project leadership or PM
- Experience overseeing the implementation of a large complex application by a vendor
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including active listening skills, as well as oral and written communication skills
- Ability to deal with ambiguous situations, complex concepts and details
- Ability to meet deadlines and to work independently
- Fluency in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office required
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) (Required)