Project Manager

About the role

• Job details mentioned below
• Title: Project Manager
• Duration: 12+ Months
• Location: Raleigh, NC

Description (including, but not limited to)

• Responsibility for the successful completion of end to end project work, including all work products
• Oversight of projects comprised of multiple deliverables, including delegation and coordination of tasks
• Responsibility for creation and management of the integrated project plan, execution of the project plan, project status, meetings, scope changes, risk and issue tracking/mitigation, coordination across project teams, etc.
• Negotiations internal and external to the project teams
• Managing scope, resources, timelines, costs/budget, quality, communication, and procurements to meet the goals of the State
• Development and execution of training and education on standard project management requirements and methods, facilitating project governance and reporting, and creating models to improve business decisions
• Efforts typically include extensive changes to existing functionality or the implementation of new applications and/or technology

Qualifications & Requirements

Required Skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Project using MS Project Server to manage multi-million dollar projects with multiple year durations
• Strong communications skills, oral and written, with project team, management and executive management.
• Proven planning and management skills including scope estimating, budgeting, testing, quality assurance and resource allocation.
• Experience with project risk management, including failure mode effect analysis
• Experience implementing solutions utilizing third party vendors and third party products
• IT Project Management experience implementing both third party and in-house development solutions
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills
• Experience with RFP's, proposal evaluations and vendor management.

Preferred government IT project management experience

Experience with mainframe and distributed environments

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.