IT Project Manager

Industry: Public Sector Client.

Title: IT Project Manager
Duration: 6+ months(Long Term)
Location: Atlanta, GA 30310

• Under limited supervision, the Project Manager will manage projects through the full life cycle from project definition and approval through implementation and evaluation of all project deliverable.
• Incumbents must create a collaborative partnership with the all internal and external team members to accomplish the deliverable within the time frames and budgets defined.
• Provides guidance to the project team and utilizes standard project management methodology. May also serve in a lead role and/or supervise lower-level staff.
• IT application development project manager overseeing a diversity of projects involving in-house development
• Projects are managed in 3-6 month development cycles in PMI SLDC utilizing Agile/Scrum techniques as needed.
• Projects are enterprise-wide in scope. Project Manager will be working within a weak-matrix organization with no direct control of IT resources. A Business Analyst is typically assigned as part of the IT team.

Responsibilities:

• Manages multiple IT projects
• Proactively communicate project status and drives resolution of outstanding risks, issues, and action items
• Manages the project schedule to meet baseline dates and deadlines within Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM
• Maintains project scope boundaries and submit requests for scope changes
• Monitors staff progress and maintains project logs of stakeholders, action items, issues, and risks
• Aggressively drives/initiates action/progress to keep project moving forward
• Acts as primary liaison with vendors/consultants, project stakeholders, and IT teams
• Maintains project site, artifacts, emails and documentation in repository in SharePoint
• Meets project expectations and works within agreed assumptions/constraints
• Maintains business relationship between IT and project stakeholders
• Understands product features and functions to be able to identify issues and expectation gaps between stakeholders, customers, and developed systems
• Obtains buy-in, user adoption, and facilitates resolution of post-go-live support issues
• Facilitates completion of IT training and reporting to support end users on IT Projects
• Travels within Atlanta offices as needed and (rarely) on occasion travels to offices across the State.
• Candidate will be working in the Office of IT Applications. Candidates will work with supporting IT team members (database, network, server, etc.) and interacting with business units. The candidate will follow internal client standards, and accepted best practices for developed solutions.

Contract Length:

• 7 – 11 months

Contract Renewal:

• Likely