– USC, GC, Gc/EAD & H4EAD
LOCATION: 100% REMOTE
JOB TITLE: SR. PROJECT MANAGER – Don’t get hung up on the job description. Below is the “required” skills!
REQUIRED SKILLS:
12+ years of IT PM experience
Must have experience working on website development projects as a Project Manager
Agile
PMP – Big Plus but no mandatory
State Government experience is a Big Plus but not mandatory
RATE: $80.00 PER HOUR, C2C
Job Description
Title: Senior Project Manager
Reports to: Manager of Project and Portfolio Management
Classification: Exempt, Administrative
Leading public sector software and services company seeking a full-time Project Manager to complement our growing team in Columbia, SC. South Carolina. We provide digital government solutions to South Carolina state, local, and judicial court entities. Our technology increases efficiency and reduces costs for governments and their constituents.
The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing projects, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within budget and scope, and to the customer’s expectations. They must be able to coordinate project requirements with stakeholders and have outstanding organizational and leadership skills.
The Senior Project Manager will create full-scale project plans, oversee necessary communication documents, direct and manage projects from beginning to end, define project scope, goals, deliverables, and collaborate with the leadership team and stakeholders. The Senior PM will work on payment, online form, website, and web application projects for state and local government entities in SC. You’ll work on a mix of both small and large scope projects. The role’s primary responsibility will be ensuring day-to-day project operations and managing and strengthening the relationship between our company and our government partners. A successful PM is an adept multi-tasker who can juggle multiple priorities, provide outstanding service to our Customers, work closely with team members and ensure that together, they achieve an outstanding outcome for our Customers.
Duties:
· Project management of custom application development, payment processing integration, website development, and other online services.
· Coordinate and execute setup of multiple low-code solutions for small application development, personal assistants, and online forms generation
· Work within multiple possible methodologies, including Agile-based Scrum, Waterfall, or Hybrid
· Lead project teams and manage all activities across the project lifecycle (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/controlling, and closing)
· Lead partner meetings to gather and finalize project business requirements, create user stories, and/or produce a prioritized/estimated product backlog
· Facilitate meetings for daily review/discussion, application demos, iteration work item planning, and retrospective discussion
· Manage schedule, scope, resources, quality, budget, risks, and issues
· Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
· Collaborate with QA team members to define test plans and cases
- Collaborate with team members to plan deployment activities
· Help to determine project scope and create proposals based on scope of work, including project costs
· Establish and monitor project milestones and timelines based on agreed upon scope of work to deliver projects on time and within budget in a matrixed responsibility organization
· Lead project status meetings to disseminate information to internal and external partners as well as senior management
· Conduct training for partners
· Evaluate application change requests in conjunction with the change board and/or project stakeholders
· Track risks and issues, determine mitigations and resolution decisions and actions
· Monitor quality standards and mitigate issues
· Responsible for the accuracy, quality and integrity of all project documentation and internal/external communication
· Write project functional and technical specifications and user stories in conjunction with the appropriate team members
· Create functional user guides and produce other application documentation
· Assist with customer service support for state agencies, local government, and judicial courts
Requirements:
· Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience
· 5+ years of direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of project initiation, planning, development execution, and delivery
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills with customers/partners, team members, and all levels of management, as well as highly proficient customer service skills
· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
· Demonstrated strong organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines amid shifting priorities
· Strong leadership, organizational, prioritization, and interpersonal skills, combined with effective presentation skills
· Ability to define and present solutions to problems
· Self-motivated
· Ability and desire to thrive in a high-pressure, client-services entrepreneurial environment
Desired Skills and Experience:
· PMP Certification
· ITIL background
· Internet and e-commerce experience with a high-level understanding of technical environment and terminology
· Experience with performing quality assurance on software applications
· Experience with diverse project teams
· Experience training diverse groups
· Willing to relocate, as advancement opportunities may exist in multiple states
