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- Seven or more years of professional project management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, education, or other related area; or years of project management experience may be substituted for the educational requirement with a PBA certification.
- Required Certification: PMP Certification by PMI.
- Industry standards and best practices for Project Management methodology, including the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK).
- Software/Product Development Life cycle methodologies and best practices (SDLC/PCLC) for standard activities including procurement, requirements analysis, design, development, testing, documentation/training.
- High level understanding of standard IT business functions that support ongoing operations as well as new functionality.
- Knowledge of and experience with complex business application structures and functions.
- Quality Management and Business Process Improvement techniques
- Standard IT and Business analysis techniques
- Standard office productivity tools (such as Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.)
- Modern office practices and procedures, including equipment utilization.
- Very strong facilitation skill with solid 'toolkit' of facilitation techniques
- Estimation
- Budgeting
- Resource needs identification, selection, assignment and management
- Scheduling and use of scheduling tools, such as Microsoft Project
- Risk and issue identification and management
- Quality planning and management
- Change management
- Configuration management
- Vendor/contract management
- Scope identification and management
- Leads and influences project stakeholders and team members effectively without direct authority
- Very strong customer focus helps maintain project focus on the core business needs being resolved with technology tools.
- Can evaluate the needs of a specific project and identify the most appropriate approach/methodology/tool set – for projects being managed by self or when advising others.
- Communicates effectively with all levels and types of stakeholders and project team members including Executive Management, technical project staff and business staff. Able to tailor communications appropriately to the intended audience.
- Able to maintain appropriate discretion, tact and confidentiality when dealing with potentially sensitive information. Understanding of communication concerns specific to doing project work in a Public Agency.
- Creates project team environments that allow appropriate empowerment to maximize productivity and effective team collaboration.
- Assesses a situation and identifies best facilitation method to use including minimum appropriate participation, method of eliciting input/feedback and managing through to a decision or agreement.
- Able to quickly analyze and understand new business areas and technologies sufficient to allow identification of 'fitness' of proposed solutions for a business problem and inform facilitation of decision-making.
- Able to recognize opportunities for ongoing process improvement or re-use in project deliverables; balances schedule needs for an individual project against development of sustainable, reusable processes for future projects.
- Creates new templates and tools to support Project Management or Product Development Life cycle activities that meet internal standards, are accepted by the intended users and customers and are scalable.
- ID: #49379527
- State: Washington Seattle-tacoma 98101 Seattle-tacoma USA
- City: Seattle-tacoma
- Salary: Depends on Experience
- Job type: Contract
- Showed: 2023-02-28
- Deadline: 2023-04-24
- Category: Art/media/design